I love your post and agree with you on most of it except I have a problem with the bolded part.
Since Nurmi said this, I've heard so many people changing their minds from premed to a lesser charge. I've heard lots of people say that Nurmi was brilliant to say this because it casts so much doubt over premed.
Why didn't Jodi kill Travis when she first arrived? Why not while watching videos at 4am? Why not while Travis slept?
I have 1 thing to say:
I hope to God that this jury is smart enough to remember that Travis did NOT live alone. I can't imagine anyone would consider murdering someone while there were other people in the house unless they were completely insane or planning on killing them too.
I do agree that it's GREAT defense tactic only as to confuse the jury. Like I said, I hope the jury is smarter than that and has some common sense.
I think one mistake Juan did was make Jodi seem smarter han she really is. She may have a high IQ score, but that DOES NOT MEAN SHE's "smart", which to me is a very broad term. Yes, she was smart ON THAT TEST. She is NOT SMART when it comes to real life. And apparently, she's not "smart" in the general way people use it because SHE DIDN"T EVEN GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL. I think this was a bad mistake on Juan's part, probably his only mistake the whole trial. And Nurmi used it to his advantage.
Nurmi took the leap and said that because of this supposed intelligence, Jodi was supposed to pull off the perfect crime. To me, Jodi is as
dumb as a rock. And some of the mistakes she made were DUMB. But we have to remember, that that is looking at it in hindsight...Jodi NEVER THOUGHT SHE WOULD GET CAUGHT. She was doing those things in the hope of never getting caught, not setting up the scene for a trial 5 years down the road. She was setting the scene of never even being in a trial. So yes, some things don't make sense now, but they would make sense looking at it from the viewpoint of a person trying not to be caught in the first place.
About the why didn't she kill him first, I believe based on the time she gave Ryan Burns of her arrival in Utah, that she planned to kill him early in the morning, right after both roomates left. She was planning on that tme for having sex, then Travis shower, then go through with the plan. Well, obviously the reason the time could have changed is because she
COULDN"T CONTROL THE TIME TRAVIS TOOK THE SHOWER. This seems very obvous to me. And she couldn't just shoot him, that would made her PRIME SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. If it were as simple as a gunshot, everyone would point to her and believe she did it. Little did she know fingers would point to her anyway, but she didn't THINK THEY WOULD, because of the brutal way she killed him, and the fact that with the stabbing and gunshot, it looked like two people did it. She was right on some of that point....as you see even now when we KNOW it was Jodi, people are still questioning well if she stabbed him then why did she shoot him too?
jmo
