jodi arias TAKES THE STAND FOR 15TH DAY #71*may contain graphic and adult content*i

[Steely Dan]

It worries me that the jurors have questions for JA . Everything she says is a lie yet they seem to think they can get a truthful response from her? After the judge allowing all these monologues, it just gives the killer another oppotunity to spin and update her testimony IMO

The more she talks, the worse it gets for her. I hope A LOT of jury questions are admitted.

I'm watching the repeat of what I missed this afternoon, did JA really throw Matt under the bus about his unregistered gun.

Yep, she sure did.

 

[Diva]

Jodi is quite chatty today and her memory seems to have returned. I hope the jury sees what a filthy liar she is. I hate her.

I need to go check out our court reporter thread! I may read there instead of watching this afternoons redirect. I can't handle JA and Nurmi.

She's in her warm & fuzzy comfort zone when dealing with Nurms (who randomly switches from Jodi to Ms Arias when addressing her) I wish he'd just standardize and call her sweetie.

 

[Isabelle]

Thanks! I work nightly to find fosters and adopters to save Kitty Cats at NY ACC (NY Animal Care and Control) who , through no fault of their own, are scheduled to be euthanized at 6:00 every morning by the Needle-man. PODR (Pets on Death Row)

I always ask ppl to share their pics.
It's nothing for us to share.
It's EVERYTHING for these purrrrfectly innocent furrbabies.

Prrrrrrrr.

Aww CTmom that is so sweet. I have been feeding abandoned kittens who became feral, helped trap some who were neutered/spayed and still have two that come to eat everyday. One that couldn't be caught is preggers. Gonna try and trap her to make sure kittens are cared for and she is spayed. The pregger kitty is the kitten of a kitten and looks it, her growth is stunted, she is very tiny at over a year old, but so sweet.

 

[KMouse]

ITA. I almost spewed today when she testified that TA had proposed to her...once...over the phone. At least, she believed he meant it.

IF THAT DOESN’T SCREAM STALKER, NOTHING DOES.

and of course there's no MySpace, texts, emails, recorded calls, friends, nor a ring to back any of this up. yep. if it walks like a duck..

 

[nightwatch]

that doesn't mean she HAS to allow anything and everything in. she had no reason to admit that edited tape yesterday. none. and it would not have been an issue to appeal, according to AZ lawyer in the legal thread.

judges, even in DP cases, don't have to act like they have a gun to their head and are somehow required to allow just any old thing a defense lawyer wants to get in. they don't want to get overturned, but that doesn't mean they have to bend over for the defense on every single issue.

does anyone know how many dp cases this judge has overseen?

 

[moonbird]

also she states she was in Pasadena to see DBs sisters new baby....whole reason for going there in the 1st place......gets to Pasadena at 8:30p and never gets in touch with DBs sister and leaves headed for TA. Who goes to see a new baby at/after 8:30p....drives all that way for that very reason but cannot get in touch with someone to actually visit them/baby and leaves.... so strange! PREMED!

this has bothered me all along! there were NO concrete plans... j.a. says she's worried about money and wants to save on the cost of gasoline - but goes to Pasadena without having made contact with Laura..

gee... now she's closer to Mesa, AZ than West Jordan, UT... what are the chances?! may as well make an "unplanned", expensive detour...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I got half of the fridge cleaned while listening to HLN. They were discussing the case with some comments about the jury probably getting bored with Jodi's ongoing testiphony. I think that most here agree with this, and I hope Nurmi wraps things up with the defendant sooner rather than later.

They replayed the segment when Jodi said that she was torn about moving away from Travis because without her around for sex, he might resort to choosing boys for sexual gratification. Jodi is so judgmental of others' behaviors but in classic Borderline fashion never thinks that she is wrong about anything or that she has flaws. :moo:

 

[katiecoolady]

FYI I'm not in the courtroom today but I will be tomorrow and Thursday. Afternoons

 

[LambChop]

JA's diatribe on all the guns she knew about reinforces one thing to me:

JA snooped on everyone obsessively. She didn't know if she could "get" DB's gun, but she knew where it was.

She knew where her dad's guns were, the type/caliber of the guns, their being unregistered, had a silencer, where each was (when did she live with her dad last? Age 17?) ... and so on. She knew *so much* about everyone's guns...

Gives me the chills.

But she did not know much about guns. Okay.

 

[nursebeeme]

So did Matt flip state meaning he Flipped to being a STATES WITNESS?? Sorry, I wasn't sure if that is what was meant?

I meant that **if** he testifies it will benefit the state in my opinion

 

[Schuby]

he said that before.....i have a feeling things have changed. the defense won't touch him but the prosecution might.

I agree. He has too much to lose and nothing to gain by taking up for her.

 

[Linda From New York]

No matter how long Nurmi draaaaaaaaags his re-direct out, he can't unring the bell of obsessive stalking, premediation and consensual sex that Juan Martinez has rung.

 

[SweetT]

I completely agree with you BUT what if I told you the crawling pace is part of the price you pay to avoid an adverse decision at the appellate level? I am trusting that what we may perceive to be lax and inefficient trial management is not what it seems. There is a lot going on in the background, their is parry and thrust, pleadings we never see, daily requests for a mistrial, regular accusations of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective representation--and that's just the press!

I have confidence (in spite of the CA result) that twelve average people can hear an edited captioned sex tape and view it as the manipulation it is. I consider myself an average person and quite honestly none of this sex stuff is illegal or even unusual in the world of young sexually active people these days.

It was unusual and rare in the Mormon world, certainly to Travis. I thought it was particularly interesting that he was amazed at his own surprise at his blossoming sexuality. This is the type of conversation you might expect from a teenager having his first sexual experiences. Even the braggadocio where he says, "how many men can..." He thinks he might be a stud but isn't sure. He knows who would know--Jodi would. He knew she had much more experience than he had and he was asking her for confirmation that he was unusually competent in bed.

So sad. Tragic that she took advantage of his sexual naivete to milk him in every possible way. Travis did not die "in his sexual sin" as one poster put it. In the Christian religion, Jesus reads hearts and I am certain that his heart of compassion earned him the proper place in the life to come. I hope his family believes this.

I never said Ibelieved he died in sexual sin I said JODI in her warped mind probably thought that. She was out to make him into a bad MORMON and trash him in every way was my point. <mod snip>

 

[newsjunkie]

Can't wait for the jurors' questions, at this rate it might be next month before we hear them but...

 

[luvtenniss]

does anyone know how many dp cases this judge has overseen?

None. This is her first.

 

[Stolat]

JA's diatribe on all the guns she knew about reinforces one thing to me:

JA snooped on everyone obsessively. She didn't know if she could "get" DB's gun, but she knew where it was.

She knew where her dad's guns were, the type/caliber of the guns, their being unregistered, had a silencer, where each was (when did she live with her dad last? Age 17?) ... and so on.

Gives me the chills.

That's funny- I thought the same thing. But sadly we see it's not new evidence, just good supporting evidence to what we heard last week- that Jodi's has an uncontrollable paranoid urge to snoop on every single person she comes in contact with. She is the ultimate paranoid control freak.

 

[DebinGA]

IIRC, Det. Flores never got an answer from Jodi to his "Was Travis expecting you?" question. Is it known if DB's sister was expecting Jodi as she claims?

 

[seguek9]

OT but as you can see from my screen name I have 7 children and I did this once. :blushing:

I thought he was with his dad and his dad thought he was with me. I waved goodbye to the crew as they were backing out of the drive. I was headed to the grocery store for a relaxing, no kids shopping trip lol. It dawned on me about 2 miles down the road I hadn't actually seen him in the van. Go home to find him in the den watching Blues Clues without a care in the world. He was 4. Scared me so bad I did headcount for months after!

Poor kid. Being the youngest always has benefits but there are definitely disadvantages to having a worn out mom with so many brothers and sisters too.

Kelly

Wow 7 kids!!! You must have the patience of a saint! I loled at your story though!

 

[kscornfed]

So did Matt flip state meaning he Flipped to being a STATES WITNESS?? Sorry, I wasn't sure if that is what was meant?

we don't know everything going on with matt. we DO know he was in it up to his eyeballs with those phony letters. JM alluded to him a few times and nurmi has too, and jodi's made a point to throw him under the proverbial bus on several occasions. i think it's fair to wonder if he may yet play a role in this trial----but it will NOT be for the defense if he does.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

if jodi isn't interested in TA anymore as a potential husband and is no longer 'in love' with him, why in the hell is her entire journal about him? why isn't she talking about some hot guy she met and wants to get to know?

i just don't see how the jury can NOT see how obsessed she is with this guy. together, broken up, living in mesa, living in CA, it's travistravistravistravis all the time.

plus i'm beginning to see why she flitted from one crappy job to another. it cut into her 'journaling' time! has anyone in the history of mankind ever done as much navel gazing as jodi arias?

IIRC Jodi wrote in her journal that one day she had four offers...kind of strange thing to say about being hit on. And apparently she didn't take any one of them up on it.