Trial day 31: the defense continues it's case in chief #86

[leebee52]

Oh good...time killer. Thanks

 

[StephanieHartPI]

If someone can clarify for me.

What is truly the goal of Jodi's defense team? Just making sure she does not get the death penalty? LWOP is ok with them?

Why isn't it "get her out free as a bird"

I keep hearing their job is to keep her off Death Row. Ok I would be rather mad if I was claiming to be innocent, and my Attorney's think I am innocent and they goal is anything less than I get to go home! (with an apology!)

She is supposed to be playing the part of a woman beaten for years, starting with her childhood and kitchen instruments of pain. Then the many men.

How is Life with no parole the aim. (I was listening to TV where they say, their job is to keep her off Death Row)

I would want them to get me OUT!

 

[A_News_Junkie]

Could the agenda of this article be two-fold? Do they want to try to discredit the ME by having the jury somehow see this line of the article?

" His blood vessels constricted so that he would bleed less if he got wounded."

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/1...guns-fear-and-flawed-instincts/#ixzz2NXbviAot"
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[Litig8r]

I have a sneaking suspicion Ms Willmott and Jodi don't get along on the whole. I can picture Ms Willmott asking her a question on the stand and Jodi answers anything other than yes/no (like her spats with Mr Nurmi, he had to pull answers from her)

Willmott's arm would come out, she'd have Jodi by the collar and drag her out of the box for some face time.

I don't see her as "patient" We missed some great cat fights I bet

And I'm pretty sure JA does not play well with other women. At all.

 

[KMouse]

Ptsd diagnosis will come from a quiz in the back of Cosmo

:floorlaugh:


That's what the coded magazines were all about!

They weren't meant for MM at all... they were meant for Samuels....LMAO

 

[josie1986]

Right what have I missed I caught like 5/10 mins.got a guy in fixing my laptop.

Ended up telling him all about this.he must think im a freak ha

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[lonetraveler]

I just woke up, what'd I miss? Why is the seal up?

You can go back to sleep for another couple of hours if you want.

 

[Ricki]

The Defense expert made up a big PowerPoint show this morning filled with all kinds of things Mr Martinez has never seen.

so he objected to the big show he was going to put up and that he has never seen some of this new information.

so the Judge gave Mr Martinez 2 hours to re-interview Dr Samuels. They will come back at 1pm and discuss if they go forward.

If I understand correctly HLN is explaining that at one the will present more legal arguments. To me that doe not mean she has let this in yet. Did I understand correctly....or am I in a total fog?

 

[beeshie]

"Your brain under fire" article in Time magazine

http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/16/your-brain-in-a-shootout-guns-fear-and-flawed-instincts/

Interesting. This article seems to help the prosecution more than the defense. According to the article:

"In the New York City police department, for example, officers involved in gunfights typically hit their intended targets only 18% of the time, according to a Rand study. When they fired 16 times at an armed man outside the Empire State Building last summer, they hit nine bystanders and left 10 bullet holes in the suspect—a better-than-average hit ratio. In most cases, officers involved in shootings experience a kaleidoscope of sensory distortions including tunnel vision and a loss of hearing."

Yet, according to Jodi, she was able to accurately shoot a moving target in the head at the height of her fear.

Additionally:

"Glennon was a police-academy trainer, unusually well schooled in survival skills. But from the moment he saw the revolver, his mind entered a state unlike anything he’d experienced before. “Oh s—! Gun!” he said, spinning his body hard to the left, missing a bullet by inches or less.

Without his conscious knowledge, the sight of the gun had sent a signal to his brain stem, passing a message to his amygdala—the primal, almond-shaped mass of nuclei that controls the fear response from deep within the brain’s temporal lobe. The amygdala, in turn, triggered a slew of changes throughout Glennon’s body. His blood vessels constricted so that he would bleed less if he got wounded. His heart rate shot up. A surge of hormones charged through his system, injecting power to his major muscle groups should he need to fight or flee."

In this case, Travis' reaction to seeing the gun (if he indeed saw it) contradicts what should have happened according to this paragraph. Instead of fear and flight, he lunged (according to Jodi).

 

[StephanieHartPI]

In my paper that I am writing on diet therapies I am not allowed to quote Wikipedia!! And this is much more important.

ok -20 lbs by next week, just PM me...

to make this Jodi related, I will let her have my 20 lbs. free

 

[scorpio24]

Actually, this could be a good turn of events for the prosecution. The expert is trying to change his story just like JA changed hers. No one believes her anyway, and JM CAN impeach Dr. Samuels in a number of ways, one being that he does his research in Time magazine.

Not a very credible expert witness. :twocents:

 

[Kajaa24]

BBM

Remmber how kind and considerate Chief Judge Belvin Perry was to his jurors? He was/is a class act. Too bad we don't have that in this case.

You are so right - I miss him too

 

[StephanieHartPI]

If I understand correctly HLN is explaining that at one the will present more legal arguments. To me that doe not mean she has let this in yet. Did I understand correctly....or am I in a total fog?

Correct! It may not be allowed in! Judge will hear arguments at 1pm. Jury was told return by 1:15 she will have given it the thumbs up or down and her decision will be final

 

[minor4th]

I edited my post to add that is what I thought, too. That doesn't seem right to me. How do you feeeeeel about it? (sorry couldn't resist:blushing

Not sure. The time to challenge experts is pre-trial, and I think Juan probably could have vetted this better and there are ways he could have raised the issue to limit the scope of his trstimony to whats in his 2010 report or to compel the defense to continually supplement their discovery based on information that became available after his report.

I'm really not sure without hearing more.

 

[HarvestMoon]

More BS coming up from the killer/defendant and her experts. PTS my foot. This woman has nerves of steel from her stance on the stand. What an affront to TA's family to have to hear, yet again, the nonsense that is coming up.

 

[KMouse]

Slightly OT, but not really. Has anyone read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Holy cow that book reminds me of Jodi Arias so much. Scares the carp out of me! It's a really good, chilling read.

I just got it from the library Good to hear that it's a worthwhile read.

 

[callyn]

I'm such a bad cook I don't even know what mess en place means. lol

I have a mess in MY place - is that the same thing? :great:

 

[carnnell]

And of course JA had no booboos except for "the finger" (OR MORE)

LOL.. boy if that is it..that Psychologist must have gotten his Ph.D from Amnesia University

 

[Tracey4AU]

Slightly OT, but not really. Has anyone read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Holy cow that book reminds me of Jodi Arias so much. Scares the carp out of me! It's a really good, chilling read.

EXCELLENT book! Loved it!

 

[bexlex]

I have a sneaking suspicion Ms Willmott and Jodi don't get along on the whole. I can picture Ms Willmott asking her a question on the stand and Jodi answers anything other than yes/no (like her spats with Mr Nurmi, he had to pull answers from her)

Willmott's arm would come out, she'd have Jodi by the collar and drag her out of the box for some face time.

I don't see her as "patient" We missed some great cat fights I bet

Can you imagine how fun that would have been???:floorlaugh: