Retrial for Sentencing of Jodi Arias - Day 27, Part 2

[cricket49]

Anticipating the Riverside LDS pastor today, did JA claim in the first trial she confessed her affair with TA to a bishop? And if so, which one ... hers or TA's? I doubt her ward's bishop would have even recognized her as one of his flock pre-murder.

The sad part is the judge will probably only allow the Bishop to answer questions regarding what he knows about the computer . After all, you don't want the jury to see Jodi in a negative light.

 

[Hatfield]

WTF does it matter if Travis had sex with Deanna? Even if he did with a hundred people still no excuse for what Jodi did to Travis.

I was thinking the same thing while Wilmcott started to harass Deanne. When the jury takes a step back and thinks "so what". Its Deannas personal sex life and so what if she didnt want to let anyone know about her sex life. I bet the jury gets offended by the DT questioning of her.

All the sex and and other stuff is so insignificant. Has nothing to do with JA murdering Travis. It is important Juan keeps reminding the jury of this because it is easy to fall into the trap that the DT wants us to fall into.

 

[Nosey Parker]

AZL: I've lost the plot again. Arias' testimony is to stay in - why can't Juan call her to the stand for cross - or can he?

 

[Hope4More]

This just conjured up the mental image of Wilma sitting at her kitchen table late into the night listening to the audio, while frantically making notes as she smokes a joint!

Can't help but think that the courtroom would be a nicer place if she chose such a refreshment every night.

 

[cricket49]

This just conjured up the mental image of Wilma sitting at her kitchen table late into the night listening to the audio, while frantically making notes as she smokes a joint!

:clap::clap::clap::clap:

 

[Charterhouse]

If JW was smart, she would get DR off the stand ASAP. But no one ever said JW was smart.
I am just extremely glad that I don't have to listen to her high pitched voice this time around.
When Dr. D gets on the stand they should hand out ear plugs.

Thanks for all the great posts. I will thank now because it is so hard during the tweetfest.

 

[bettybaby00]

I know I'd love a visual. We've spent years working out do many details.. it would be awesome to see the core of that summarized in one place.

But for the jury? I don't think JM needs to, and he may actually not want to. His closing is going to be even more powerful this time around. Less to focus on, and more to be righteously angry about.

All he needs to convey to the jury is that she lied about every last thing about Travis, starting with what she said about the very first day they even met.

I can hear and see JM now....


"How can you believe anything she says about Travis when she's lied to you even about the date when she says they became "official? "

DeMarte will explain things, but even so I think its possible he won't emphasize the fact they never had a relationship. That she invented everything makes her seem flat out crazy....not a sympathy mitigator, but maybe a geez, she's batsheet crazy mitigator...

The longer this goes on, the more this farce looks like a rejected script re-write of "Fatal Attraction."

The only thing missing is the dead bunny cooking on the stove!

 

[TexMex]

If JW was smart, she would get DR off the stand ASAP. But no one ever said JW was smart.
I am just extremely glad that I don't have to listen to her high pitched voice this time around.
When Dr. D gets on the stand they should hand out ear plugs.

Thanks for all the great posts. I will thank now because it is so hard during the tweetfest.

What gets me is that she comes across as insecure with her asking for sidebars constantly while she crosses a witness

 

[Hope4More]

I feel exactly the same way...my friend and I have both followed this trial from the beginning, and have both thought JA made more of the relationship than what actually existed. For me, that fact never really held much significance, but Juan has now expertly brought out how key this fact really is.

I think the first trial literally had too much info competing for the spotlight. This phase has allowed the most significant issues to become the main focus, and the DT badly miscalculated Juan's ability to cut through the BS. Instead of validating the murderess' motivations or establishing her "fragile emotional issues," the DT has made it easy for the state to hit home run after home run against their flawed strategy.

And the killer has no one to blame but her own hateful, lying, and manipulative self.

On a certain level I'd rather see her get LWOP as it would mean automatic irrelevancy. Something she likely fears worse than the death penalty!

Last night I could'nt stop smiling over deanna's honesty, as that single one line utterance summed up exactly what has been going on all these months. I suspect that the remainder of the states witnesses' honesty to do the same.

We are on the same page entirely!

 

[Nali87]

What gets me is that she comes across as insecure with her asking for sidebars constantly while she crosses a witness

You mean whiny! She always runs to JSS to whine and complain.

 

[TexMex]

You mean whiny! She always runs to JSS to whine and complain.

Yep. Wants the judge to make Juan play nice. Or hold her hand through questioning

 

[DebinGA]

From Juan's closing argument

Spiderman underwear
And you have it there for your review, this February 14th, 2007 email. And one of the things that it doesn’t talk about is the package that she supposedly received in the mail that day. Take a look at the time. It’s around 4:30 – 5:00 in the afternoon. I guess they have mail that’s really slow there in Palm Desert. Never mentions these unholy underwear, these underwear, these Spiderman underwear that so shocked her. She doesn’t mention these chocolates, thank you for sending those to me. Doesn’t thank him at all. The reason she doesn’t thank him, and the reason that she doesn’t mention it, is because there was no such delivery. But of course, that’s something that can’t be verified except that there’s this inconsistency and it starts showing that this individual will make things up. But she forgot, she forgot about that February 14th, 2007 email. And you know, short of the old saying, with the truth you ain’t got to remember nothing, at least you have to give her credit for having an incredible memory. Well, an incredible memory as to the fantasy world that she wants to create for you. Just like that delivery of the underwear, can’t show them to us, why? Oh, she threw them away, but she took pictures of some other things.

Here's JA's Feb. 14, 2007 email JM refers to:

https://geebee2.wordpress.com/jodi-arias-valentine-email-14-feb-2007/

Iirc phone records show no calls between TA and JA that Valentine's Day when she claims they were "official". But no call from TA after she sent him that paean of praise? Clearly TA had no idea they were a couple.

 

[MeeBee]

What gets me is that she comes across as insecure with her asking for sidebars constantly while she crosses a witness

She really does. Juan would have let it go, seized an opportunity, or asked the judge to admonish in an extreme circumstance and moved on. Her running to the judge like a child makes her look like she can't handle curve balls or a combative witness.

 

[cricket49]

The longer this goes on, the more this farce looks like a rejected script re-write of "Fatal Attraction."

The only thing missing is the dead bunny cooking on the stove!

Juan needs to replay the Flores interrogation video with Jodi when he says all Travis's friends say she was obsessed with him. They use the term "Fatal Attraction". That alone would would allow the jury to see the type of relationship TA and Jodi had.

 

[Nali87]

Yep. Wants the judge to make Juan play nice. Or hold her hand through questioning

Or to make the state witnesses behave. :giggle:

 

[ElleElle]

Her May 10th, 2008 blog post. What on earth is she rambling about? The very same day that she records the sex tape.

http://jodiarias.blogspot.in/

The last paragraph gave me the shivers.

"Yet somehow, I don't believe that all of the wandering in the world will lead me to its attainment. Somehow, I know it's right here inside of me. This yearning I have is perhaps the yearning for it to explode into expression. To be fully expressed would be would mean ultimate gratification."

 

[bsk]

Wow. Wouldnt that be something to see all the discrepencies at a glance like that. Even if it could not possibly include everything it would be great to have something like this. It would be utterly amazing to see. The only problem is it would take a lot of work for sure. The good thing about it though is it could be shared at certain points even though we know it would not have everything included. Even if 25% got completed at first it would show some amazing contradictions and then it could always be added to if people had time to keep adding things.

This one was pretty simple to work up.

 

[Nali87]

She really does. Juan would have let it go, seized an opportunity, or asked the judge to admonish in and extreme circumstance and move on. Her running to the judge like a child makes her look like she can't handle curve balls or a combative witness.

As he has done with Dr. F and Dr. G in front of this jury countless time. Remember Dr. F actually turning towards the jury and tell them "See this is how he twist things?" or some other crap. He didn't run to JSS and Dr. F sure gave him reason enough to.

Now JW runs off to JSS after bullying DR.

 

[Wizzy]

This has been addressed many times during this trial, but how can lawyers take bits and pieces of letters, videos etc out of context and make them appear to be something else? Just like the Hughes letter they sent to Travis. If they can't allow the whole video or letter to go into evidence it appears smarmy. I know there are some very good ethical lawyers out there but this sure makes the legal system seem shady. JMO


ETA: and don't get me started on JSS.

Hi, I don't normally post. I'm a lurker! LOL!

Your post is my exact thoughts. Just picking out whatever they want and the truth is lost.

 

[daisydomino]

I could do it; however, I would want accurate hyperlinks to embed in the spreadsheet. Is there a WS-trusted cache of them somewhere? I'd hate to go through all the trouble just to find out the sources (i.e, Google) are bunk. I'm tempted to just post my personal email so you guys can flood me with hyperlinks and pdfs, but I won't.

This sounds like a fun fun project! All that info, all in one spreadsheet. ♥ But yes, a lot of work.

No, don't share your personal email addy. Maybe make a temporary gmail account just for this? You could then also use Google Docs collaborative tools if you wanted to. People here could anonymously put the puzzle together as a group. Maybe give access by private message here on WS to other members who could also create gmail accounts solely for this project.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/

I've never done this... I could see it failing miserably lol.