The Jodi Arias Trial--Fatal Attraction – The Murder of Travis Alexander

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Looking to fill time, HLN has played some of her interviews with detective Flores. I've listened to bits of them and it's nauseating how she fake cries about the ninja killers. Disgusting.

[Duchess]

The jury will be considering whether or not Arias's premeditated murder of Travis Alexander was cruel and heinous, that's required for a death penalty sentence in this case.

I felt anxious waiting for the jury to come back with the verdict but now that they have & they did the right thing I think they will continue on this path and give her the death penalty. It won't be difficult to see that his premeditated murder was cruel & heinous.

I don't want to eat those words.

[username]

*snicker*

[HairOfTheDog]

I felt anxious waiting for the jury to come back with the verdict but now that they have & they did the right thing I think they will continue on this path and give her the death penalty. It won't be difficult to see that his premeditated murder was cruel & heinous.

I don't want to eat those words.

I've always thought that it was highly unlikely that Jodi Arias would be sentenced to death. Now, with her post-verdict interview and behavior that can be used against her in sentencing, I think it's more likely than not that she'll get the death penalty. Total turnabout for me.

It takes so long to execute prisoners that she'll be alive for a good long time if she is sentenced to death. IMO, the dying before her natural life span has ended wouldn't be the worst part of a death penalty sentence for Arias. The worst part of that sentence for a narcissistic attention hound like her would be the isolation from other prisoners (marks, for her) and being limited to only an hour outside per day.

Right now, I see it as ⁶⁰⁄₄₀ odds in favor of Jodi Arias spending the rest of her life on death row.

[BlueTiki]

Let's test her truthfulness.

Let her go all Timothy McVeigh and drop any and all appeals.

Put up or shut up . . . bitch!

As an aside, he reportedly had an IQ of 120+.

[HairOfTheDog]

Let's test her truthfulness.

Let her go all Timothy McVeigh and drop any and all appeals.

Put up or shut up . . . bitch!

As an aside, he reportedly had an IQ of 120+.

It would be great if she pulled a McVeigh, financially and in the interest of timely justice.

And, as she said in the voice mail to the reporter, "she's a person of her word".

It's possible that her lust for the attention of attorneys, courts and media that goes along with the appeals process might just be overridden by her desire to keep her word and do the right thing. Hey, it could happen!

Who am I kidding? She won't score any higher on the truthfulness test than she did on the PTSD test (first pass, before Samuels' score alteration, I mean).

She's a cockroach; hard to squash.

[HairOfTheDog]

Arias has reportedly been released from Buckeye's Psych Ward and is headed back to Estrella jail.

In one clip of her post-verdict interview, she says that she couldn't look at the Alexander family during trial because they all look similar and it reminds her of the abuse that she suffered at the hands of Travis.

Nancy Grace is now reporting that Arias is spewing some new lies:
(1) Friends and family members saw some of the bruises that Travis caused her.
(2) She has photographic evidence on her hard drive of Travis chasing a naked 4 year-old.
(3) Her defense attorneys wouldn't let her introduce witnesses to the bruises nor the photograph.

Yeah, she's really prepared to die, that's why she's still trying so desperately to convince everyone that there was no premeditation and that Travis was a pedo abuser. Fail.

Back to reality: when the aggravation phase begins on Wednesday, Martinez is expected to call the Medical Examiner, Horn. He will presumably testify that the nature of the wounds that she inflicted upon Travis Alexander equates to cruelty.

[username]

If Travis was chasing some naked 4 y/o it was probably some nephew or something in fun. She's pathetic.

[BlueTiki]

Nancy Grace is now reporting that Arias is spewing some new lies:
(1) Friends and family members saw some of the bruises that Travis caused her.
(2) She has photographic evidence on her hard drive of Travis chasing a naked 4 year-old.
(3) Her defense attorneys wouldn't let her introduce witnesses to the bruises nor the photograph.

Client call the tune and the attorney does the dance unless the action is either illegal or is prohibited by ethical standards.

And why the fuck does she have kiddie porn on her computer and is not being charged?

[HairOfTheDog]

Client call the tune and the attorney does the dance unless the action is either illegal or is prohibited by ethical standards.

And why the fuck does she have kiddie porn on her computer and is not being charged?

Have you seen the full post-verdict straight through yet?

I haven't found it in its entirety; only a portion on-line and clips shown here and there on HLN.

Last night, HLN showed more about the alleged chasing of the 4 year-old. Einstein claimed that Travis was holding a Bible in his hand at the time. She thought he was just trying to belittle the Catholic faith when she took the photo, but realized after she caught him masturbating to a boy's photo a year later what was really going on.

She's so full of it and completely unable to stop trashing Travis, who's been dead and buried for 5 years. If the interview is played in court, the jury will see the evilness in that, I'm sure.

[BlueTiki]

Have you seen the full post-verdict straight through yet?

No.

I think our local FOX station realizes it has the Golden Goose.

She knew the post conviction interview would allow her another attempt to support her ever evolving story and counter the State's claims.

Seems a phony relative has started a website and is soliciting donations.

Her "authorized" website is pissed.

[BlueTiki]

Judge to MCSO: Don't approach Arias with media requests

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office was slapped with a court order Tuesday prohibiting it from approaching Jodi Arias with requests for media interviews.

STORY

Additionally: Judge Stephens denied the request for taped impact statements.

[HairOfTheDog]

From Tiki's link.

Snip:
On Monday, Arias was taken off suicide watch and transferred back to the all-female Estrella Jail.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Arias will remain there "on closed custody status." She is alone in a cell and is being allowed out one hour each day to access phone calls and showers.

Sheriff Joe.


Tiki: So, Travis's family will be able to deliver their impact statements in-court, in the presence of judge/jury/convicted murderer, in-person, right?

[BlueTiki]

So, Travis's family will be able to deliver their impact statements in-court, in the presence of judge/jury/convicted murderer, in-person, right?

Looks like a green light.

My guess: Judge Stephens will politely explain what is usually covered in impact statements and the rights of the victims.

I don't believe the defense really wants to launch multiple objections, during the readings, and appear antagonistic to the family.

Unless their goal IS to get Jodi the needle!

I hear Nurmi hasn't picked his final strategy, yet.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good news!!

I'd say that Nurmi picked a winner of a client, but she was essentially shoved up his nose and I don't think that he was ever happy about having her up in his face.

Jodi didn't do any picking either; she got whomever was assigned (I wish that you and the good people of Maricopa county weren't footing the bill, but at least the outcome was the right one).

P.s. Some days, I really do wish that Einstein had gotten her wish and served as her own attorney - simply for my own amusement. But, I think the end result would have been the same, only with a whole lotta grounds for "incompetent counsel" appeals.

What she did is simply indefensible. Period.

[username]

So, Travis's family will be able to deliver their impact statements in-court, in the presence of judge/jury/convicted murderer, in-person, right?

That is snot good for the defense.

[BlueTiki]

That is snot good for the defense.

He'll keep digging, until he mines a nugget, to pick and flick at the jury.

[HairOfTheDog]

So, Travis's family will be able to deliver their impact statements in-court, in the presence of judge/jury/convicted murderer, in-person, right?

That is snot good for the defense.

You're right. It snot!

I'm actually not that concerned about the effect of the impact statements on the sentencing. Arias is dust in the wind from here, no matter what, imo.

For me, it's about the rights of those who had someone that they love killed mercilessly by a woman (using the term loosely) who then spent years trying to pour salt into the enormous wounds by attempting to desecrate his memory with venomous lies. It's their time to be heard; truth in the court room.

P.s. I had a glass of cab tonight. The tell: the damn emotions creep out, along with way too many 'effin adjectives (and I can't help it!).

[BlueTiki]

As expected, ME Horn narrating all of Travis' wound photos.

As expected, the gruesome photos coupled with narration is too much for the Alexander family . . . heads down and sobbing.

Martinez was quick, despite multiple objections and approaches.

Wilmott is trying to paint the picture that adrenaline and fight or flight prevented Travis from feeling the pain of his wounds.

Martinez is back and "off leash" . . . he's pissed.

Oh, yeah . . . he's emphasizing the fact that Travis was alive during the attacks and he could hear, see, feel and speak . . . until his throat was cut.

Martinez did get Horn to testify that the scalloping around the neck wound could be caused by multiple slicing or sawing motions. This was to counter Wilmott's decomp explanation of the wound.

Two juror questions: Three rapidly placed wounds to chest. Scalloping around the neck wound.

State and defense rests.

Now come the closing arguments.

Martinez up first.

[heartbreaker6713]

When will the family get to speak, if they do?