aggravation phase #9 - VERDICT - Extreme Cruelty PROVEN

[The Farm]

I'm guessing Martinez gets to question any character witnesses the defense calls?

Morning Tex.

I was looking for you yesterday during deliberations. I said where is Tex, I need food & tequila.

 

[Beccaboo]

It would be pretty stupid considering the jury just told her they don't believe her.

ITA BUT Jodi seems to continue with a lie long after it has been exposed. In her interview after the verdict she again called Travis her abuser :banghead: She can't bring herself to ever admit to any of her lies, any of her evil deeds. She will go to her death swearing her story was true, plus some new details sprinkled in as the years go by. :banghead:

 

[TexMex]

"The last thing that Mr. Alexander felt as he laid there as he could see up there, was this knife, this woman and this blade coming toward him. It was only death that relieved that pain and it was only death that relieved that anguish and that is especially cruel."

 

[Gypseagirl]

Can someone tell me the name of the ex-inmate who will take the stand for J? TIA

I'm thinking Donovan. That would be my guess. I believe she is an ex-inmate.

 

[deedee21]

Tony Plana is playing Juan Martinez on Lifetime:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686470/

Seems like they cast him as a tough guy prosecutor type, lol.

Andy Garcia would be a good pick.

 

[Sleuth5]

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[bznbear]

I agree with what you're saying and what the o/p was saying as well. I'm very vocal and active about women being treated equally and with respect in all areas, I always have been and always will be... Just the same for men being treated equally and with respect across the board (unlike "expert" ALV). eta:I work in a heavily male dominated field, I deal with it everyday, I've learned to demand respect and those boys sure give it to me! There are undeniable gender stereotypes that are dangerous, alive, and thriving.
I think it's worth pointing out that in this case JA was probably afforded more benefits due to these stereotypes whether folks were aware of them or they were engrained.... she's "pretty", petite, "well spoken", and all of the other irrelevant adjectives used to describe her that garnered so much media attention and irrelevant questions to the murder itself... her physical appearance has nothing to do with "how /why she could commit such a brutal crime?" but there was more of an interest in why a "stunning" young woman would do this (as opposed to an "average" defendant). Either way, all of these issues are worth looking at and I'm open to all discussions

Wonderful post! I've often wondered what a defendant's looks have to do with their ability to perpetrate a crime. Obviously, nothing.

 

[Sleuth5]

Agreed, but who else can they call? She murdered her last good friend.

Good point.

 

[basilcat]

Morning Tex.

I was looking for you yesterday during deliberations. I said where is Tex, I need food & tequila.

Yep...farm was looking for you Tex....but I think by that point it was reverse order....tequila first, than maybe food....:floorlaugh:

....hope you weren't affected by those tornados....scary stuff :scared:

 

[MeeBee]

Did you guys see that Defense Counsel tried to withdraw from the case during a hearing?

Also at the same hearing, the Defendant's wish to have victim impact statements done through videotape was DENIED also their request for discovery of what the family was going to say during victim impact was DENIED.

I think her attorneys wanted to quit after that stupid after-verdict interview Jodi did.

I mean, can you imagine? These lawyers have been fighting tooth and nail for her for years and then she gets up and says I don't really care anyway, I wanted to die all along. "Then what the hell are WE doing here?" Not only that, but she blames the verdict on their shoddy lawyering.

Yeah, they were probably like eff this &#*(%. At this point, I don't think they care that much what happens to her. Sure, they probably still want to win for winning's sake, and they will still do all they can, but Jodi has made them not really care anymore. Willmott was totally different yesterday, although losing your case can have that effect I suppose.

 

[carnnell]

It would be pretty stupid considering the jury just told her they don't believe her.

Arias has been stupid in one way or another since the moment she met Travis at the PPL conference to post conviction news interview. She just doesn't learn from her mistakes and/or experiences. She just keeps going because she thinks she is brilliant!!

I surely hope that someone, DT or the Judge, will review her statement before she can get up on that stand and start spewing BS aaaaaaaaaagain!!!

JMHO

:rose: Justice has been given to Travis by Martinez, Flores, and the Judge!! Many hugs and love to the Alexander Family and Travis' Friends!!! :rose:

 

[TexMex]

Morning Tex.

I was looking for you yesterday during deliberations. I said where is Tex, I need food & tequila.

I actually worked some early then took some buddies to help unload trucks from the Houston Food Bank at a local food pantry. So I am just now seeing the arguments from yesterday. Martinez did a great job. The defense was pretty sad relying on the "adrenaline may have possibly we hope maybe kept Travis from feeling too much pain" :banghead:

 

[Nali87]

Wow. What kind of mom wouldn't get up there and say anything? If that was my daughter, I wouldn't support her..but I would at least get up there and beg for them to give her LWOP. You would still love your daughter no matter what she did. You wouldn't want her to die.

Maybe Jodi asked her not to?
It is kind of weird... Maybe Beth got this one wrong?

 

[deedee21]

ALV ? The jury will remember she bashed Travis. Jodi is desperate.

 

[Truth Detector]

This is one day I'm hoping and praying things go late. I have to work all morning and can't get there til lunchtime and I hate that I might miss the impact statements.

Hope you make it. :crossfingers:

Who knows?

Stabby may have another Liegraine™ headache.

 

[Nali87]

He's so cute, I think he gets better looking every time I see him. :giggle:

Cute is an understatement!!! :floorlaugh:

 

[TexMex]

Yep...farm was looking for you Tex....but I think by that point it was reverse order....tequila first, than maybe food....:floorlaugh:

....hope you weren't affected by those tornados....scary stuff :scared:

Today I'll have tequila ready! No tornados close to us this time. But I always remember the F5 in Jarrell, TX in 1997. Some friends of ours lost their sister, her husband and twin high school age kids in that one. A whole family wiped out in an instant.

 

[popsicle]

Well I have had three damn donuts and a package of cookies already and I am on a diet. I am blaming it on Jodi.

That's okay. Because court was put off last week I worked out in the yard and I now have poison oak and poison ivy on both legs, both arms and a dab on my face.

Btw.... she doesn't look so skinny in those horizontal stripes and chains!

 

[concernedmother]

If ALV takes the stand it will verify her bias with the jurors and point out she had a personal relationship with JA.Also that she has to pay someone to say good things about her. So JA character witness is a former jail cell mate. lol JM will have a field day with that.

 

[Sleuth5]

I think she was expecting it this time. She wasn't prepared for her first verdict so you saw real raw emotion (for herself, but that's as real as it gets with her).
Today she was more prepared. You still saw it though....if you watch it again. This time it was pure hate and anger. Subtle, but there.

I absolutely saw that. So many folks have said that she showed no real reaction, but to me, she was seething. She was giving the jury the serous stink-eye.