Retrial for Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Day 23

[Val1]

I could see how the way Jodi talks would influence a juror or two. When she was on the stand giving her secret testimony, I guarantee you she was using a really sweet, innocent voice that may have had some jurors wondering how someone this nice could have done something so vicious. There was a link to an article about borderline personality disorder on one of these threads that I read over the weekend. The article was saying that people with BPD usually were abused when they were young and they had feelings of abandonment even when they were young. I never have felt that Jodi was physically abused. I guess she was hit on the rear with a wooden spoon by her mother, but I'm older and don't consider that abuse. I also don't think her parents ever abandoned her. Maybe she felt abandoned when she was 17 and moved in with Bobby. Her parents didn't come after her, but I suspect they'd had as much of her sass as they could stand. I taught sixth grade for thirty years and did paddle several kids each year during the first decade ('70s) or so when I first started teaching. The kids who were paddled and the rest of the kids behaved well after that because they didn't want a paddling. Jodi and Carl knew what made their parents upset. My thought is that if they didn't want to get hit with the spoon, they should have behaved.

In that secret testimony, Jodi said her father was working all the time and seemed distant when he was at home. I was always a daddy's girl, and I guess I won't ever understand that. My mother had been married before, before World War II, and my sister had a different father. My sister married young, and I felt like an only child after that. But my daddy basically built his life around me. I went everywhere with him. We went to church practically every time something was going on. We went to the rec center at night for me to shoot basketball. Out of five years (grades 8-12), he only missed one junior varsity basketball game out of all the games in which I played. He's the person who took my friends and me to all of our high school football games. I'm bringing this in because I was spanked with a belt one time-- by my daddy. I can't even remember what I had done wrong. I do know that after the spanking, I ran and jumped on my daddy's lap, and he held me while I cried. My daddy died when I was 29, and I'm 66 now. I have lived my life in a way that I thought would make my daddy proud. I think that is what has surprised me about Jodi. How could she have sat there and said all of those things that she and Travis did, especially with her parents in the courtroom? I wonder if I would have done things differently if I hadn't had a father who cared so much for me.

Then there's children like this.... and from what we've learned about JA, I'm thinking she was a Michael.
"Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/m...ar-old-a-psychopath.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

 

[josie1986]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 47s 48 seconds ago
The woman sends him the pictures. There are grainy pics of selfies..she has clothes on #jodiarias #3tvarias

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 2m 2 minutes ago
Judge admits an email about pictures. Travis is asking this woman for pictures so he can drool over them. #jodiarias #3tvarias

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 2m 2 minutes ago
Geffner stares at jurors while waiting #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[geevee]

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 41s41 seconds ago
#TravisAlexander e-mail to a different woman: "Alright young lady send me some pictures. So I can drool over you call day...."

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 21s21 seconds ago
There were pictures attached. Wilmott has black and white copies. I think MAYBE i see a tank top but that's about it. bad copies. #JodiArias

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 38s38 seconds ago
Apparently this woman's from Sweden. #JodiArias

 

[MarVa]

How do I know this isn't one of those chain e-mail thingies people forward? I'm not saying it's not possible he wasn't flirting with other women, but after the mass e-mail to that young girl being twisted into something dirty, I'm not really inclined to believe what the DT presents.

Then again, even if he were the worst philanderer on the planet....so what?

 

[Nali87]

Oops never mind. Guess he was exchanging these e-mails with some other woman.

 

[josie1986]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 16s 16 seconds ago
Geffner says this woman is is basically a stranger to TA and she's from Switzerland yet she sends him photos #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[geevee]

Michael Kiefer ‏@michaelbkiefer · 49s49 seconds ago
Geffner notes that Alexander was involved with #Arias and Lisa Andrews at the time he was contacting the other women.

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 16s16 seconds ago
"I need motivation to come see you in Sweden” Geffner: #TravisAlexander was texting other women when he started dating #JodiArias #abc15

 

[WhoaIsMe]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 14s15 seconds ago
email list things like "stabbed in the chest" "own a clothing company", "read 2 hours a day". ends with "pick 5 and make out with me"

That looks a lot different than the way MK reported it.


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[josie1986]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 9s 10 seconds ago
Geffner says this at least happened a dozen times with different women. Many women comply and send them #jodiarias #3tvarias

 

[Nosey Parker]

What. the. hell? It's a friends with benefits type of relationship - two grown individuals deciding to have sex while not having a relationship. It's not abuse! It gets made into PG 13 movies!

Exactly! A short lived, long distance sexual relationship!

Domestic violence/abuse applies to a live-in situation, sometimes nigh impossible for the victim to escape.

 

[Dr. Know?]

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 41s41 seconds ago
#TravisAlexander e-mail to a different woman: "Alright young lady send me some pictures. So I can drool over you call day...."

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 21s21 seconds ago
There were pictures attached. Wilmott has black and white copies. I think MAYBE i see a tank top but that's about it. bad copies. #JodiArias

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 38s38 seconds ago
Apparently this woman's from Sweden. #JodiArias

That ranks right up there with texting after 11 pm.

 

[geevee]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 36s37 seconds ago
Now we're onto an email from Lisa Andrews to Travis. #JodiArias

 

[mydirtysecret]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 16s 16 seconds ago
Geffner says this woman is is basically a stranger to TA and she's from Switzerland yet she sends him photos #jodiarias #3tvarias

Omg geff have you met the INTERNET yet?#

 

[geevee]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 27s27 seconds ago
"you kissed me far too soon", "we made out far too long" -- she writes to TA. #JodiArias

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 9s9 seconds ago
"i thought you wanted me simply for my body and our kisses don't mean anything." #JodiArias

 

[josie1986]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 13s 14 seconds ago
Sept 23, 2007. 12 days after the woman sent TA pic's, Lisa Andrews writes TA and tells him she doesn't like their interactions. #jodiarias

 

[geevee]

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 34s34 seconds ago
"I asked you several times not to grab my butt in public but you persisted." #JodiArias

William Pitts ‏@william_pitts · 24s24 seconds ago
Gotta say, that sounds like a high school relationship.

 

[Frigga]

OMG, this is SO ridiculous. They are desperate.

 

[Val1]

Michael Kiefer ‏@michaelbkiefer · 49s49 seconds ago
Geffner notes that Alexander was involved with #Arias and Lisa Andrews at the time he was contacting the other women.

Katie Conner ‏@KatieJConner · 16s16 seconds ago
"I need motivation to come see you in Sweden” Geffner: #TravisAlexander was texting other women when he started dating #JodiArias #abc15

Yea like a single man isn't allowed to play the field... just like JA was doing when she was dating sometimes two guys in a day and then running over to TA's for "naughty" time...

 

[mydirtysecret]

Jen's Trial Diaries @TrialDiariesJ · 13s 14 seconds ago
Sept 23, 2007. 12 days after the woman sent TA pic's, Lisa Andrews writes TA and tells him she doesn't like their interactions. #jodiarias

Lisa Andrews was the same one with the hard on situation, correct? Oy veey

 

[Hope4More]

Bet the jury is fed up with being driven down the same old slime highway yet again.