Hi all. I have a couple of comments I thought I'd throw out here before things start today. But first I would like to tell all of you how much intelligence, creativity, heart, and humor you fine people have. I truly enjoy reading comments here because I learn new things and laugh often reading your posts. Ok, so enough of that.
Yesterday was unbelievable to me for a number of reasons. But I wanted to comment on the psychological testimony of the entire trial and the juror questions.
I have really been focused on this aspect because it goes to the heart of self defense. However, imagine being a juror in this case. They have been bombarded with psychological verbiage, multiple theories, sex, stalking, domestic violence, personality disorders, PTSD, laws of attraction, experts that testify completely outside of their own field of expertise, and not one agreement as to what JA suffers from.
Throughout this trial very little time was spent on FACTS of this case. And I wonder sometimes if the jury can see the forest for the trees so to speak. But with that said I have complete faith that PREMEDITATION will be established and that Juan will make it clear. With that said, I pray the jurors look at all of the psych testimony based on what they saw with their own eyes...
Every DT psych expert had to address, as part of their testimony, issues of bias and/or ethical violations or sanctions.
Every DT pysch expert refused to acknowledge that lying would alter a test result
Every DT psych expert refused to answer questions directly asked of them
Every DT psych expert in one way or another disrupted the court proceedings
Every DT psych expert talked to only JA
Every DT psych expert failed to include, as part of their interview of JA, an evaluation to determine the presence of Malingering (outside of the testing instruments built in controls for deception)
Every DT psych expert was either giggly or openly hostile at some point in their testimony
I'm positive that you all can add more to this list. So at the end of the day if the psych testimony is too hard to make sense of for the jury, it is my fervent hope that they throw out all the bs and just base their decisions on what common sense and simple facts tell them.