Jodi Arias Trial discussion, #3

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Then while we were in Huntington beach a girl texted . . . what time is it there ? . . . gosh I am making this look so bad. . . not saying psychic but I have distinct feeling . . . one I can't ignore . . . one day while he was sleeping I took his phone and read his texts . . bad I know. . . .

talking about getting sushi . . . . plans when she comes up . . . .they texted back and forth between each other.


Cross exam . . . .

Met JA in Oklahoma City @ convention for Pre-Paid Legal . . . after a meeting or ceremony . . . specific team break out session - closer knit team (smaller group) . . . quick first impressions. . . nice and beautiful . . . .all I remember.

April 2008 - convention . . . he knew TA (who he was not personally). . . . 3 mo into the business - he was struggling . . . . TA was flown into SLC for a training - inspired by TA - did much better after that.

TA was probably not there when Burns met JA . . . he knows was @ the event but not when Burns and JA were exchanging numbers. . . . Zion Levinger and Burns were playing pool downstairs about a month after the convention - maybe Dave Hall's Mom's house - business get together in SLC.

In between initial meeting and the time JA's name brought up during pool . . . doesn't think he had conversations with JA - 3 or 4 week break before they had conversations.. ..Zion said "she's cool you should give her a call". . . .he was trying to play matchmaker . . . Burns asked Zion for the number again as he didn't have number anymore. . . . .

something Zion said motivated burns to call JA. . . . Burns was single @ the time . . . he called her right there @ that event. . . . there was a room that had a sitting room outside of where eveyone was playing pool . . .could be 30 min or 3 hrs - don't remember but pleasant conversation.

Was your interest romantic? Sure I was interested in getting to know her better and possible dating . . .we talked about books we like to read . . . how to influence friends and people . . . . .attractive traits in her . . . . business person.

nothing disuaded him from him initial feelings after talking to her . . . in crowds she was a shy girl but 1:1 she was very different. . . . how did you draw that comparison . . . engaging in conversation and shy in groups. . . . 1:1 on the phone -very easy to talk to not awkward . . . . never seemed that way . . . but in the the briefing in a crowd - she was a little shyer. . . . in front of people

Briefing in June 2008 - a thursday when he came to Utah. . . .

first contact in May or end of april . . . no awareness of her dating of Travis . . . at some point she mentioned they talked couple times a week . . . .shocked Burns. . . . Travis was her executive director . . . he was her mentor in the business . . . helped him put in membership applications . . .they talked business but that was it

she Helped him qualify as Ex. Director . . . helped him maintain exec. director . . . bonus level in our company - got paid a lot more . . . . needed 75 memberships . . . if you had 73 @ end of month you would get director but not exec. pay . . . . first month as director made 6K but first month as Exec. director - Burns made over 10K that month.

Status allow you into certain places. . . . Exec. Director banquet . . . you basically got paid more . . . . 1-2 thousand of us would go to banquet - and get on the Cancun trips if executive director.

Instant messages between JA and Burns. . . April - june 2008 . . . one way to communicate. . . made phone calls as well . . . business was picking up for Burns - they were busy during the day . . . usually called @ 11pm at nite . .. .

prior to Meeting 6/4 or 6/5 they talked 4 or 5 times per week and text message during the day. . . . not too often instant messages . . . .

in these conversations . . . subjects talking every day . . .getting to know each other .. . .her likes, his likes . . .she asked what are your hobbies . . .what books have you read . .. . his dating history . . . have trust issues? whatever would come up.

Any phone sex? Yea we probably did. . ..... some time after she came to Utah.

between time met in April and time met in june no phone sex.

In april toJune 2008 - moral or religious qualms about sex . . . he hadn't attended LDs church in over a year @ that time . . . she told him about her views on church . . he stopped when things got heated - it was mor her expressing her relgious beliefs.

He spoke w/Det. Flores on phone and Def. Atty came out to SLC . . . she was trying to bring Burns closer to god . . . .she was a member of hs former church . . she was a convert - baptised later on - not raised in church . . . . Travis baptised her.

JA got him a little bit reinvested in the church - she was reading scriptures. . . no reason to doubt her sincerity . . . during conversations they had . . . talking about scripture and relationship with God . . .

she did confide she had a sexual relationship with Travis . . . she didn't want to Burns to repeat it . . . she said they went further . . . he used word "edify" him

did she evre bad mouth travis? besides the conversation about him cheating an unfaithful and not honest with her . . . no . . .. . she never said bad things about him except the trust issue . . .


Text message from another girl - no idea which girl she was referring to? Burns thought it was a long time ago - didn't know if 6 months or 2 years ago . . .he didn't try to pry into that relationship.

it seemed like a year ago whn Travis and JA broke up . . . .infidelity that motivated this breakup? Objection . . . .

People talking @ once . . Judge asks to ask question again . . .

infidelity referenced in the text messges . . . seemed like JA didn't trust TA . . . is that reason motivated to break up? . . . . Burns even complimented her for full disclosure even though she didn't need to . . .they didn't trust each other that was reason JA and TA broke up.

Travis didn't want relationship to be public . . . .Burns said it seemed like JA's frustration - their relationship wasn't going anywhere . . . .hard to stop seeing each other when so close - that is why she moved from AZ to Calif. . . . .northern Calif. . .

She wished that when she movd that was the end of the relationship. . . .

Question about TA not wanting their relationship to be public . . they were on the way to breaking up and hooked up a few times after breaking up . . . sounded like each wanted to move on . .

How long convention in Oklahoma city - 2-3 days . . .. Cox convention center in Okalahoma - well over 10K people attended . . . . social events and meetings and parties training throughout the day 8 hrs . . . . dance parties hang out -all sorts of stuff going on . .. .

Burns and Jodi had fair amt of mutual friends . . . any interaction with Jodi and friends there? no - just him and Jodi . . . never saw TA and JA together as a couple @ the convention. . . . he didn't know they were a couple for a long time - he was shocked when she said that she and TA talked so often - thought they had broken up long time ago.
 
I don't trust this witness, something fishy about him. Seems kinda slimey. Maybe its the sales/corporate thing...

I think he's lying about not having sex with her. IIRC, he wouldn't be temple worthy and would have to do a lot of stuff to get back. JMO
 
January 9th continued.
Cross examination of RB by male defence lawyer

--RB was at a convention in April 2008 and met TA when he was flown in as a guest speaker.
--Asking RB about the time before his initial meeting with JA and when they spoke after the convention. A friend of his, "Zion?" was playing "matchmaker" and Zion told RB to call give JA a call. This was in April or May 2008. RB was single at the time.
--RB called JA at the event where he was speaking to Zion. He spoke to JA on the phone for "quite a while".
--RB's interest in JA was romantic and he was interested in dating her.
--RB says that JA is "a business woman" and he found that attractive.
--RB noticed that in crowds JA was a shy girl but in private it was different.
--RB and JA met for the first time in June 2008 when he she came out to meet him. This is the one-on-one meeting not when they met through business. RB noticed that JA was shy when she was in front of people.
--RB thinks the phone contact with JA was in April or May 2008. JA told RB that her and Travis still talked " a couple of times a week" because he was her executive director and her mentor in the business. RB says he was shocked at first to find out JA and TA still talked.
--JA told RB that she helped TA maintain his executive director status. Staus is based on applications. The executive level paid more money. The "pay jump" was large, a $4000 difference.
--Executive director also came with other incentives such as banquets. Easier to get on the Cancun trips etc.
Now asking about the instant messages and their means of communication.
--JA and RB spoke 4-5 times a week and instant messaged throughout the day.
--Conversations were about books, hobbies, his dating history, if each of them had trust issues.
--RB admits that some of the conversations were phone sex. The phone sex started after they met in June.
--Between April and June 2008, RB is asked if he had any qualms about pre-marital sex. RB talks about when she visited in June 2008 and how he didn't want things to get too heated because of JA's religious beliefs. RB says that JA was "trying to being him closer to God". JA was a convert, baptized later on. JA mentioned reading RB's scriptures. RB never doubted her sincerity.
--JA told RB about having a sexual relationship with Travis. She also told RB that Travis had cheated on her and wasn't honest with her. JA never said any other "bad things" about Travis other than the trust issue.
--RB assumed the contact that TA had with another girl was "a long time ago". No idea when the "cheating" happened. RB says that it "seemed like she didn't trust him".
--RB wasn't aware of the time frame when JA and TA broke up.
--Seemed like the reason TA and JA broke up was because they didn't trust each other.
--Defence asks RB about "Travis didn't want their relationship to be public". RB states that is why JA moved away from TA because it was hard seeing TA when they were so close. RB doesn't know when JA moved away from TA.
--JA told RB that they "hooked up a few times" after they broke up.
Defence: Asking about the convention in Oklahoma. RB says that here were social events, training, parties, "hanging out". RB and JA had some mutual friends. Defence: "did you ever see at this convention, Travis and Jodi together as a couple". RB: "no".
 
I don't see a thing "slimy" about the witness. Am I missing something? He just seems like a young man telling the truth about what happened. If he wanted to really make her look bad and truly was slimy, he would have said they had hot and steamy sex. I am not seeing slimy.
 
I don't trust this witness, something fishy about him. Seems kinda slimey. Maybe its the sales/corporate thing...



I thought he might just be uncomfortable with being questioned in open court about the details of his sexual and dating history with an accused cold-blooded murderer?
 
I think he's lying about not having sex with her. IIRC, he wouldn't be temple worthy and would have to do a lot of stuff to get back. JMO

I thought the same. Being in the postions he described and not having sex, he is either lying <modsnip>
 
Defense Aty keeps trying to get a question in thru texts and questioning about people warning not to date Travis as he was a ladies man . . . 3rd approach to the bench
 
Perhaps.

It may also have been the money. I was shocked to hear how much an executive level sales person made.

I think she stayed for that maybe, I think what drew her to him was him. jmo
 
DT just snuck in a question where he refers to TA as a "ladies man" despite multiple objections. He spoke over last objection. At the bench...
 
He said he hadn't been a member of the church for over a year when he was with her. Do you have to be Mormon to be in PPL?

Good question. It may be to avoid his wife finding out. I know Mormons tend to prefer doing business with other Mormons, but I don't think they'd keep someone out for not being Mormon. JMO
 
sidebar:

ah so....


defense atty is trying to get the witness to say that he heard jodi say that other guys warned her about TA because he was a "ladies man"

which is heresay thus the sidebar

btw... big deal... who cares if he was a ladies man! whoopdeeefreakingdooada!!!
I have known plenty of them and even dated a few in my lifetime!
 
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