Jodi Arias TAKES THE STAND #22 *may contain graphic and adult content*

[LotusPawprint]

:moo:I hope she will talk about her cat...that feline that made all those marks.. im very interested in that subject. I think the cat gave her some disease you know and she became OUT OF CONTROL or maybe got drugged on catnip

I hope she brings up the cat too, or A cat, so that opens up the door for Juan to cross her on how she treats other cats. If that's relevant.

 

[sindydee]

this is so annoying, my screen is really wide so I have to scroll cross to read a whole line or press the thanks button. zoom is set to normal 100 percent. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR anyone know how to fix this? x

 

[HarvestMoon]

While we wait:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...early-morning-surfing-trip.html#axzz2JkccYIhw

:floorlaugh:

 

[Madeleine74]

Where's my boyfriend :heart:...errrr....I mean the prosecutor?

It's been nearly 20 hours since I've seen him and I'm in withdrawal!!

</slightly obsessed>

 

[lil_buddy]

I wonder how many thousands of people around the world just lost a half hour of productivity because we are all glued to our monitors wanting to watch JA testify.

I'm going to guess it is a fraction of a percent of the worldwide productivity that is lost during the World Cup.

 

[SkiptomyLu]

Originally Posted by SkiptomyLu
I didn't get trough all of her testimony, but it seems like she is *maybe* setting up a framing narrative that gives JA the air of being the victim because "poor JA" is just so gullible to go along with all of these people and their beliefs… Remember the man that came in the restaurant and said the apocalypse would happen on such-and-such a date, and she made sure to (not only tell the story) let the jury know that she believed him.

She gives me a severe stomach ache.

:hills::dracula:

and her "spiritual" nature made her contact Bobby......can't forget that --- she was trying to save him as well...such a giver....NOT

And, let's not forget how Nurmi kept annunciating how PPL was so glamorous to Jodi, and how she believed she would succeed with PPL 110%. Gus and her ex, DB, backed this narrative.

 

[popoju]

I hope she brings up the cat too, or A cat, so that opens up the door for Juan to cross her on how she treats other cats. If that's relevant.

she said the wounds she had was cause of her cat..i hope he testify lease:

 

[SuperTmo]

So we'll have an hour or less of testimony til lunch. Great for the flow.

So...that gives her attorney time for what? 2 questions? 3 max!

 

[EGirl]

I was in high school/college in the mid-60s/early 70s, so my knowledge of more current dating trends is very limited. That Jodi always had to be in a relationship with a guy reminds me of girls in high school and college who had to have a boyfriend. Most of these young women were very clingy and jealous when they weren't the center of attention to the current love interest. Without a beau, these gals were nothing or believed that they were nothing because having a guy was the most important thing to them. Didn't matter what the guy looked like or what type of person he was, some girls were joined at the hip with their boyfriends. This is what Jodi's relationships sound like - that she felt like she was a nobody unless she had a guy to love and care for her on her terms. :moo:

I think that is a big part of it....but I also think she always wanted to be with a guy that she thought could do something for her; financially or otherwise.

I don't for one minute think she felt like 'nothing'. I think she was a self centered brat that just could not fathom a man not wanting to be with her.

JMO

 

[smeck]

I was just thinking that maybe Det Flores was too easy on JA during the interrogations. He never really got anywhere with her on the details and she never owned up to it to him. Don't get me wrong---I love the guy but was just thinking about it. We will see how she holds up with the more aggressive style of JM.

 

[Shelby1]

Per Beth K.:
The courtroom is full. Arias's mother, aunt, cousins and friends are here. Two of Alexander's sisters and one brother are here, along with friend Taylor Searle and other supporters. Attorneys are present. The judge is not on the bench. Arias is not in court yet.

 

[minazoe]

who knew a nun's habit could be so hard to get in to!

:floorlaugh:

 

[JurysOut]

It's great to feel so welcome by this sarcastic comment and many others "liking" the sarcastic attack on my original comment. I must have missed that portion of her testimony yesterday, since that was the entire scope of my original comment. I didn't hear JA make any references to any of those things in her testimony yesterday. Guess I will go back to not commenting on a site that clearly isn't as receptive as I thought to different perspectives. Good luck.

hey there...I'm only reading every couple of hundred posts, sorry I missed something.

As you can tell by my user name, I'm big on waiting for all the evidence.

I've taken some crap for it, but that's who I am.

I'm much more of a trial addict than a sleuth and I'm a huge fan of different perspectives.

The trial process and what juries can and cannot see and may and may not take into consideration are fascinating to me.

I figure every opinion can be represented by the jury.

The last thread I absolutely kept up on without fail was the Mickey Shunick thread(s). That moved so fast that I started reading from the last post backwards when I had a chance to check in.


This is how I see this case thus far:

I don't hate JA. I'm often the last one who reaches the conclusion that an accused is guilty.

There's a difference between believing someone is guilty and seeing them proven guilty. Many times, I may personally believe that the accused is, indeed, guilty, but the evidence fails to firmly establish their guilt. Sometimes I'm glad of that because it means if I drop a rooted hair on the floor of a convenience store where two hours later someone is murdered and breathes their final breath with that hair clutched in their hand, I might not be convicted!

In this case, the accused has such an extensive, publicly documented history of fanciful lying that I can't imagine her rambling testimony is helpful in any way, save avoidance of the death chamber.

Abuse is subjective. I haven't heard anything that I'd personally label as unbearable - or even especially unusual - abuse, based upon my own childhood and subsequently having raised two children. I've also been in physical fear of a man. Many, many women have.

If there are jurors who share life experience similar to mine, they're going to have a tough time making the leap from wooden spoon spankings and being grounded to fantastically savage overkill, in my opinion.

When you frame the current rambling testimony in the context of well and properly documented lies, it becomes an even further stretch that every juror buys this defense theory.

If there are 2 people on the jury that have been spanked, grounded, moved around a lot as a child, had an @$$hole boyfriend that they left, even been struck or manipulated or verbally abused by a lover.......then driving a great distance to get to, have sex with and subsequently brutalize a wet, naked man is going to be terribly difficult to mitigate, in my opinion.

The apparently maniacal savagery is inexplicable, in my opinion.

But I haven't heard the entire defense case...

 

[4Jacy]

Yesterday Jodie and a juror smiled at each other (InSession) Oh nooooooooooo!

 

[Sweetiemom]

She can lie 'til she turns blue-don't think anyone will believe a word she says.

 

[jevipo74]

who knew a nun's habit could be so hard to get in to!

LOL! I think she's giving herself a pep talk in the mirror: "Sparkle, Jodi, sparkle!"

 

[Steely Dan]

:lol:

steely between that and your comment about your "wings" I about choked on my salad.

News Junkie made it.

 

[txbluesman]

 

[hindsight2020]

To a point I agree. I believe Jodi perceives her treatment as abuse but the term abuse can be subjective to many. Certainly it wouldn't rise to the legal standards of abuse. (For that matter I lived in domestic abuse for 10 years and much of my abuse wouldn't meet legal standards either so I am sympathetic to real victims of psychological abuse as a rule. I don't consider Jodi to be a victim in any capacity.)

I think though, like you, that whatever has happened to Jodi is turned and twisted in a way that benefits only herself. For me, even with corroboration there simply is no mitigation for what she did to Travis, his friends, and his family. Prior to his death, through his death, and following his murder. The only explanation imo for continuing to hurt those already harmed through losing him is sadism, pure and simple.

Agreed, abuse is subjective and is perceived differently, but in this case JA perception is of a different variety, it includes ninjas, lies to the nth power, manipulation to an extreme, and a murder far beyond of a human being, as the evidence presented thus far shows.

 

[GobBluth]

Where are all of JA's GIRLfriends? Any testifying? And I don't mean the cellmates who love her so. I take their words with a grain of salt.

It's all fun and games, until you get shivved 20-some times for not sharing your pudding cup.