What bothers me is that it's obvious that ALV has based her opinion of Travis mostly on his texts to JA, including the rant on May 26, 2008, as well as his conversations with other woman. To her it seems that he personifies the typical abusive male, which is far from the truth. The texts to JA were out of anger and frustration and probably not the best way to handle things but it isn't an indication of Travis as a person. There is no doubt that Travis had a short fuse as far as verbally and maybe some of the things he has said may be construed loosely by someone like ALV as abusive, but it's a far cry from physical abuse and certainly not warranting the butchering that JA gave him.
As I've said before, Travis may be considered a player and maybe even a jerk when it came to women, probably just because he was so inexperienced with them, but he was not a pedophile or abuser. He was a human being who had some issues, like all of us. She has no right, having never met the man, spoken with him or even with anyone who knew him (other then JA, who of course lied), to make any kind of judgments about him. And given her assessment of JA her opinions are seriously flawed and biased in any case. It seems the jury sees this, too, and hopefully will discount her opinion as worthless because it is.
As someone said, because ALV has so much experience with abusive men, when all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail.
