What a long, long day we had yesterday. I can’t tell you how many times I asked, ‘what’s the point to all this?’ when Willmott was up! Then I was thinking I was having hearing issues or lost my comprehension skills!
We’ve come a long way on this journey and we are down to juror instructions and the closings. Hopefully, the jury got some decent rest last night and is on top of their game this morning. Pretty sure the jury will have the case first thing Monday, when they are fresh!
Oh, and I fully expect Nurmi will call for a mistrial, again!
Letting ya know now, I won’t be transcribing the jury instructions…long, tedious…no way, no how is it possible, but it does have to be put on record! The biggie will be if manslaughter included!
Court open for business, late, at 10:11.
Stephens starts off by reading the instructions to the jury.
Count 1…first degree…intentional and premeditated.
Includes 2nd degree…intentional or caused death knowing life would be lost. 2nd degree does not require premeditation.
Unanimous jury decision for both.
They got manslaughter included and that is not really surprising! This is what the defense was going for – self-defense theory was bogus from the get-go.
OMG! Jodi was just yawning!
As much as I hate jury instructions, these are fairly well written, understandable.
Juan up…
Jodi stabbed him over-and-over again, slashed his throat, and shot him; she will not let Mr. Alexander rest in peace. She has lied repeatedly and craves the limelight. She has gone to the media, wrote a manifesto in case she became famous.
She is manipulative.
Mr. Alexander even said she is destructive.
She attacked her mother.
She continues to lie about the gas cans. She bought one, but returned one for cash. You heard that Wal-Mart checked every register and there was no return.
She has tried to manipulate all of you!
Her manipulation goes back to Bobby Juarez. She found out that Bobby was sending letters to another woman. But, it wasn’t her fault the computers in the library didn’t have security enough to stop someone to hit the backspace button.
Then the same thing happened with Mr. Alexander’s computer.
The she went with Matt McCartney. The same thing happens.
Then we see Darryl Brewer, he didn’t want to marry her, so she leaves him.
It’s a pattern, but none of this was her fault!
Love Juan does all this off the top of his head…no notes!
The Feb email never says thanks for the unholy underwear because they never were sent. She lied. She can’t prove it because she claims she destroyed them.
She read his text messages on his, but that wasn’t her fault!
Whoa, Juan just mentioned her “fake” tears on the stand!
Jodi has kept her head down doing her arts and crafts!
They broke up and what does she do? She moves to Mesa and starts her stalking.
She was peeping in his windows at night. Saw him kissing another woman. So what? He had every right to be seeing another woman. He had moved on, they weren’t together anymore!
The physical violence? Never happened. There are not reports to police, no medical treatment, and no witnesses. Nobody saw bruises.
The family is seething!
Juan effectively just trashed Alyce LaViolette testiphony again!
Turns out, Jodi told Dr. Karp in the beginning there were many, many incidents of domestic violence…on the stand, it became there were only 4 ‘supposed’ incidents. She can’t remember whom she said what to!
Juan gets in that sex tape was for Jodi’s benefit. Travis had no idea it would ever be made public. Yet, Jodi saved it all that time.
Travis told people he was extremely afraid of Jodi and her stalking behavior on May 26th.
Juan shows Travis’ message to her that says, ‘ you are the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
The girls are struggling really hard to choke back tears.
May 28 she started the planning for killing Travis. She stole her grandfather’s .25 gun. In California, they take your name and there is a waiting period…easier to steal one.
The burglars went into to 4 rooms and only took one item from each room!
She didn’t want to be linked to AZ in anyway with her credit card, so she called Darryl Brewer to borrow gas cans and told him she was going to Mesa!
She rented a car for the trip…90 miles from home in Yreka so people wouldn’t recognize her!
Juan is so nailing premeditation…what a pro!
Jodi brought cd’s of their trips together from Yreka, loaded them into the rental, which gave her a reason to stop in at Travis’! She thought far enough ahead about that as well as the check she left on Travis’ desk! There is no proof that Mr. Alexander knew Jodi was coming!
Nurmi has made 2 bogus objections about Juan misstating evidence…ahhh, no he didn’t, big liar!
Juan’s sarcasm has been spot on!
Lunch recess called…
Court resumes at 1:35 with the ever-popular sidebar…
Juan is going through all of Jodi’s stories about why the cell phone was off while she was in AZ. She did that so the police will never be able to find out.
She showed up at Mr. Alexander’s with a gun and a knife.
Whenever she got caught she says, ‘oh no, I was lying then’. That is her fallback position.
She says she walked into Travis’ house and stood there and watched him for 30-35 seconds. Who does that? Isn’t that stalker?
She told Travis she was tired so the went to sleep without having sex.
She told Dr. Samuels the sex photo were taken while she was straddling Travis and she had seen all these photos of women’s breast on his computer. Why would she do that? To manipulate you again.
If Travis’ sexual behavior is bad because he was a Mormon, then hers was also because she was a Mormon also. So, stop pointing or wagging the finger at him, she was there and participating willingly.
She claims Travis asked her to take photos of him in the shower because he had toned his body and was proud of it. But, if you remember Darryl Brewer said she took photos of him in the shower one time. He didn’t want her to. So she was comfortable with this behavior.
Now into there was no rope in the bedroom…she made it up in order to explain the knife being there.
Shows Travis’ photo sitting in the shower, nude, defenseless and with no dignity!
She told you she shot him first. But, look at the lies she told the experts, the police and told here. Why would you choose to believe this one lie?
We know Mr. Alexander has defensive wounds on both hand, trying to grab the knife. But, then she stabs him in the heart.
You knew he moved to the sink with blood pouring out of his mouth and nose. Juan shows the photo of blood all over the sink area.
While he’s standing there, she is stabbing him in the back and the back of the head. Juan puts up the photo.
While fake crying, Jodi keeps sneaking looks at the computer at the photos.
Now photos of the hallway with blood transfer on the walls as he is stumbling down the hall trying to get away from her. She chased him down.
He’s got the wound to his chest, his back, his head, but he’s still alive with life leaking out of him,
Juan shows the photo of Travis’ blood at the end of the hallway where she slit his throat.
It was a very well orchestrated kill. If it was in the heat of passion it would have been random and all over.
She shot him after the heart wasn’t beating, he was dead.
She killed him 3 times over!
Men and woman alike sitting with the family are weeping!
Then she cleans up and deleted photographs, but only some of the images…only the ones that could hurt her!
There in no fog…her actions were deliberate, she was thinking!
The camera in the washing machine is significant because there were no bloody footprints down the stairs.
She washed Travis’ body to wipe away any of her DNA.
She staged the scene.
She did other things.
She remembered to put the license plate on the car.
She packed up her bloody clothing.
Grabbed her stuff and purse.
She filled the car with the gas ca. If you’re in a fog, how could you do that?
Why did she leave a message on Travis’ phone after she killed him? To manipulate you.
She continues and calls Ryan Burns saying she found her cell charger and continues to his hose in Utah.
Then she tells Leslie Udy, her kids and Travis’s kids will play together in the future. Again, staging the scene.
Now she came into court and staged her defense by lying to you!
Juan is debunking the defense and their experts. Points out AVL came into court and lied to them, omg!
Dr. Samuels lied about the scoring and rescoring the tests. He gave the PDS test and there is no doubt the defendant lied. How valid can his results be? He admitted he probably should have re-administered it
Juan has been masterful!
15-minute break called…
Court back at 3:04.
The defendant’s lies to the police officers are important because they fit into her particular plan.
She was asked if she was there? No, I wasn’t even there.
Well, wasn’t your fingerprint in the blood? Of course, I was always there. Shows how she can manipulate things to her story.
She kept asking to see the crime scene photos she could conform her story to the scene.
The she changed to the ninja story, making herself the hero!
Years go by and now we have the current story.
She lied to police, medical professionals, and the media. All for her benefit to make her look good.
All her stories of acts of domestic violence are lies!
Then she made up the story about Travis being a pedophile. How absolutely hateful!
There were no photos found on the computer or in the house.
Why didn’t she go to the police? Because she took this story too far.
These lies, take from Mr. Alexander, what little he has left, his reputation!
The pedophilia allegation, it doesn’t get any higher or worse, however you want to look at it.
When it is to her benefit, she will lie!
Juan addressing jury instructions and what each instruction means …hammering home how simple it is for them to come to a guilty verdict because of Jodi’s lies and actions! He has broken it down to simple terms and definitions.
The defendant is asking you to help her carry the gas cans. Don’t leave the courtroom with the stench of gas on your hands. Do not carry them for her!
Powerful, powerful presentation!
Arias, Willmott and Nurmi look defeated!
6:51, court called for the day, to begin again at 9am
Poster Nicole said it best today…
Juan Martinez is a “Warrior Angel” for Travis. Reining down the hammer of justice for Travis and his family. Delivering us all from the evil that is Jodi Arias
Filed under: Crime Tagged: Jennifer Willmott, Jodi Arias, Juan Martinez, Judge Sherry Stephens, Kirk Nurmi, Murder, Travis Alexander