trial day 42: the defense continues its case in chief #128

[TigerBalm]

When jury deliberations start.

 

[LynnM]

Yes and I really dont understand why they cant just let their client have her day in court, let the truth and the evidence tell the story, and be done with it. What does a mistrial get them? The evidence would still be the same in a new trial. Are we really at the point where it's about wins and losses for the attorneys that matter?

MOO

Given the cost of this trial, the defense may believe that a mistrial would result in the prosecution being more amenable to a plea bargain.

 

[HarvestMoon]

A very significant development today was the motion to deny the admittance of the closet evidence. If this testimony and pictures gets in then it is over for Ms. Arias. She can't claim self defense if she doesn't get a gun from the closet and she can't get the gun if the shelf can't bear her weight. So what are the chances it come in?

lease: that it is admitted lease:

 

[kscornfed]

Today was a bombshell day, wonder what Juan has in store for tomorrow.

Autograph copies of manifesto for when famous
Self comparison to Einstein

I just hope the day isn't eaten up with these frivolous motions they keep dreaming up.

 

[Sleuth5]

LOL...oh no. Didn't you hear? You weren't here earlier when you were voted as the one to do the in depth study! :laughcry:

That's what I get for bathing. Guess I'll just need to camp out in this chair this term whenever I'm not in my office. But believe me, I'm staying on my toes from here on out!

 

[elementary]

Does it bother anyone else as much as it bothers me that ALV says "Mr. Martinez" at the end of so many of her answers?

It's condescending, IMO. She's trying to equalise her perceived "power differential". I'm guessing it's all about power for LaViolette.

 

[Kris Munroe]

she always has been!

1)no jury will acquit me
2) let me put my makeup on
3) her moves (dang those were STRANGE)
5) MANIFESTO?


my gosh what ELSE will she try to come up with. does she not know that people are SMART. We can figure this out? We do not have to have degrees or titles or anything else.. us people hear what we hear and know what is going on and this is utter CRAP.
cue static.
I AM SURE that lav employed her static when she wanted to and IF SHE DIDN'T AND SHE WAS TRULY OBJECTIVE THEN TURN OVER THE INTERVIEW TAPES

SHE WONT

we have to remember that the jury has seen all of this.

BBM - No, she doesn't think people are smart or that anyone would figure it out. She thinks no jury will convict her, because she is just so much smarter than everyone else.

This is one of her major downfalls. She thinks she is the smartest person in the room, at all times. That is where the smug looks and the smirking, comes from. In her mind she is brilliant.

 

[Pink Panther]

Huh, what gyn report?

If there was one, it was fabricated five weeks after the fact and would not surprise me in the least!

:floorlaugh::floorlaugh::floorlaugh:

 

[Nhic]

I think that we have a double murder trial. If you've killed once, what is going to stop you from a second one.

Maybe that's why she had 2 weapons. Her weapon of choice for Travis was the knife. The gun was a backup in case one of the roommates arrived home. :what:

 

[Nezumi]

Khaki, I apologize in advance but I am a little late on this response. Yes it bothers me tremendously; she is using a therapeutic technique that is popular in "in prison therapeutic communities" and with many Associate and Bachelors level substance abuse counselors whose education was obtained prior to the mid 1980's.

Interesting! I'd love to hear more about this if you have the time.

 

[Plumeria5]

in a year (i am being sarcastic? but not sure if I am really being sarcastic at this point)

It's beginning to look a lot like :christmastree::santahat::sleigh:!

 

[TexMex]

I agree and here is why.

page 19
http://grahamwinch.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/floresinvestigationreport.pdf

**"The digital card had several pictures on it, including SOME, which had been deleted."

??????? Were there pictures that were not deleted?? The accidental ones?

**"Detective Melendez stated there were OTHER unallocated photos on the digital card that he would have to work on to retrieve.

She did delete the shower pictures. I believe she uploaded them to her camera first. For a "trophy"

UNALLOCATED PHOTOS but NOT deleted???
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???:banghead:

could these have been downloaded onto the camera from another source at around 1 pm? Kinda sounds like it. moo

Camera and picture info (sex pics at 1:25)
[ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhYXVlvzsY"]Jodi Arias Trial : Day 6 : Shocking Photos (No Sidebars) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[AuburnSchnauzer]

Woop! Of course NG screwed up again on the carry-over of JM-ALV testimony this evening - She started out right, but, well.....(
We need to fire her "producer" or something). I hate to ask someone to carry over You-Tube of today's testimony...That Soft-Tail person did good for this old "Rigid-Frame" gal last time - I'm assuming I can find it pretty quick but VERY anxious...

 

[Pink Panther]

It's condescending, IMO. She's trying to equalise her perceived "power differential". I'm guessing it's all about power for LaViolette.

Yep. She's lost sight of her professional role in the case in lieu of her personal need to come out as the alpha chic.

moo

 

[Liebchenmutti]

I don't think JA had any second thoughts. There was no fight downstairs in his office. This is another of JA's lies to help solidify her claim of physical abuse leading up to the murder. JA thought she could confine the killing field to the shower for easy clean up.

Perhaps she is so beyond evil that she killed TA after sex so he would have no time to repent.

Jodi doesn't have human feelings--she's a parasite who is delusional in her concept of herself--she is no genius, she's a loser-she dropped out of high school and began working as a waitress as a 17 year old, a waitress who never keeps a job for long--she "man-hops"--she always has a man to suck dry and use.

Jodi is mind-numbingly MEDIOCRE in intelligence, looks, talents and accomplishments.

She thought she was capable of styling an alibi for her premeditated murder trip--she even threw in some theatrical aspects and stupid stories to make it "seem real." It didn't.

She left a crime scene that spelled "Jodi did it" in Travis' blood. She left the camera & deleted photos, a shoe print, a palm print, a hair, and every single human being in Mesa that knew her KNEW IMMEDIATELY SHE DID IT.

From the rental car to the third gas can, Jodi was intellectually unable to come up with one story that was even in the realm of possibilities. If you listen to her interrogation tapes, she is enjoying every moment of it. Sick.

Travis found out the truth about Jodi--she is a soulless, hideous, hateful, jealous, parasitical, revolting sociopath. He saw that true face of Jodi Arias--and it must have been absolutely terrifying.

I am sick of the theatrics and garbage of the defense team. I am sick of the Travis-bashing, the vile accusations, the lies. I know that every person deserves representation, but must they be so evil?

And now we have proof that Nurmi & Willmott read here--so I hope they can get a sense of outrage and the "Let's Blame Travis" routine. It makes me angry--and you can bet the jury is angry. Defend your client without destroying the soul of her VICTIM.

 

[katiedid2]

Given the cost of this trial, the defense may believe that a mistrial would result in the prosecution being more amenable to a plea bargain.

Considering that a mistrial would mean new attorneys?

 

[Ammonitida]

I am curious, what do you think her punishment should be ?

Had she just fessed up to the truth and say pleaded insanity, I'd have gone with life without parole. But her current defense strategy makes me see red. Her cowardice has put Travis on trial where he is being murdered a second time. She must die for it.

 

[kscornfed]

A very significant development today was the motion to deny the admittance of the closet evidence. If this testimony and pictures gets in then it is over for Ms. Arias. She can't claim self defense if she doesn't get a gun from the closet and she can't get the gun if the shelf can't bear her weight. So what are the chances it come in?

As long as the state can duplicate those exact shelves, which I believe they can, this should come in, IMO. She's the one saying she stepped on that shelf. I think it's fair game.

 

[kaRN]

ALV says her continuum is 'published in Canada'. Where in Canada ALV? What province and what language pray tell??? Did you photocopy it at a hotel In Vancouver or Halifax before you gave a brokeback keynote speech? I'm smelling BS.

 

[LinasK]

We both see photos. They are both naked. They are never seen naked at the same time. Yet, just because you see naked photos, you assume that sex was involved. I don't. I am an ex-investigator/LE and that is not the way you look at cases. You don't take the evidence and try to get it to fit your opinion/idea. You take the evidence at face value and build from there.

I can't leap from seeing two naked people to the fact that they had sex.

As I said previously, it doesn't really matter. It just bothers me when people take evidence and twist it into their version of the story. That's all. Carry on.

Just like in the Casey Anthony case, they tried to reach and say that the photo of Caylee reaching for the door handle proves she was able to open it and get into the pool by herself. It only shows her reaching, not that she was able to open it!:banghead: