trial day 31: the defense continues it's case in chief #87

[Texas Lady]

Do I need to point out that psychopaths have conned even psychologists before? Here's just one example:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7833672.stm

Just watch the movie Primal Fear

 

[miss plum]

This jury was selected from a society that was almost universally outraged by the Casey Anthony verdict, a society deeply skeptical of villains being portrayed in court as victims, a society that expects its jurors to take their job seriously and deliver thoughtful justice. The caliber of their questions to JA strongly indicate they are fulfilling those expectations. This half-baked nonsense is not going to hold up when it comes to deciding a verdict imo.

 

[probowl1998]

OMG!!!!!!!!!! This doc is a fake. He cannot give definitions of his diagnosis terminology without reading from his book.

 

[AKEmmy]

her ACute sTRESS = ACTRESS!

 

[Angelina Frost]

A soldier commits crimes by fighting for his country?

Pray to god someone on that jury has military experience. My uncle is a Vietnam Vet- he'd flip his lid at that one. Hired goons are just disgusting. :furious:

 

[especiallyheather]

Need I say more?

 

[NashBridges2]

Oh for crying out loud WRAP IT UP Wilmott! This is ridiculous.

Nurmi isn't questioning him. If he was, we'd still be hearing about where he studied and got his training in 1936.

 

[AnonymousD]

How much are the public defenders being paid by the "State"?

$250/hr , iirc, for Nurmi.

 

[Ammonitida]

The only "reality" that she couldn't deal with was the reality that she would spend the rest of her life in jail... and THAT is why she experienced the fog after the murder, and that is why she created the stories about the murder.

All of these "criterias" might not have a thing to do with PTSD but with someone who feigned lost memory, lied to cover the heinous nature of her crime, and sought victimhood to avoid responsibility for WHAT SHE DID.

As a person who lives with long-term PTSD every day, I am disgusted by this defense.

She experienced no fog after the murder. She meticulously cleaned the crime scene of incriminating DNA, disposed of incriminating items, turned on her cell phone to create an alibi, tried to cover up the time gap/hole in said alibi, forced herself into the investigation early to keep check ups on its progress, etc. No fog. Just a callous killer who remembers every detail of the crime before and after and who is now using a "fog" cop-out that rapists, murderers, and other monsters use almost a quarter of the time as a self-serving ploy.

 

[Irving]

 

[meanddblj]

Nurmi checking watch

 

[callyn]

He has to read from a book to answer questions. When JM gets ahold of him it's going to be pitiful.

 

[LunaticFringe]

Oh my god- give me a break; she doesn't sleep well in JAIL... maybe she no longer sleeps well because she viciously, brutally murdered a man and continues to lie about him- I hope the <mod snip> is haunted nightly by Travis!

How bizarre.I remember reading that Karla Homolka's first night in jail she slept like a log because Paul Bernardo her husband was no longer a threat to her.She also was diagnosed with PTSD.He actually did beat her and was documented.

She was a monster too mind you.

Not sure where I am going with this but it made me think of Karla and her sleeping well despite how noisy they say jails/prisons are.

 

[BritsKate]

This guy really is a Gus, he's very enamored with Jodi and the media attention of this case. He's playing for the camera, the audience and posing all sorts of "theories" with the assumption of her innocence which he isn't really qualified to pose or assume. The defense seems to be confident in him, but he does not perform well with professionalism as an expert witness at least to me.

I have a feeling, I could be wrong, that JM will tear him up.

Psychopaths always play better one on one. I couldn't agree with you more, Morning. I think this doctor fell under Jodi's manipulative 'spell' over the course of their dozen sessions. It became almost readily apparent when he was talking about first meeting her. I'm not accusing him of outright impropriety but I really don't think his emotions are unbiased enough to testify on her behalf.

He's also missing a background in domestic violence I think should be really important here and he's not admitted to any extensive background with disordered personalities that could also account for many of her 'symptoms'. The defense as much as admitted Jodi has at least A personality disorder in this morning's arguments.

 

[Tipstaff]

The majority of things this witness testifies to or speaks of are very old - some decades old.

They had to resurrect him to get a defense witness like this to appear in court.

He really does not seem to have anything current - even his stories.

 

[vallie]

I'm sure the jury is feeling much like us with this PTSD testimony: not impressed and angry , Look at how the jury was on the same page as us when we heard their questions. This fog and mirrors is infuriating to me, and i'm sure it is to you , the family , the jury, the prosecution, the judge AND to real PTSD victims, which, btw, i am a veteran with PTSD and this is really hard to hear where criminals have PTSD and how JODI has PTSD

 

[Arishia]

But explain why she only can't remember the things that prove her guilt. She remembers everything else.

 

[Quester]

My HLN one word of the day ... bloviator!

 

[otto]

The murder apparently caused the PTSD, so it does not appear to be relevant to the fact that Jodi murdered Travis.

 

[Sassynic]

"The hypothalamus...I mean the hippocampus" ....c'mon!!!!