I have had many people write in and ask me the meaning of Jodi’s recent psychological evaluations. In essence they asked “if Jodi is found to be mentally ill, will she no longer have to go to prison and or avoid being executed?’
My very analytical and wise colleague highlighted an important and nuanced point in the Jodi Arias trial regarding her abuse claims. 
Jodi Arias claims that Travis was abusive yet there is a complete absence of evidence about this in her diary, text messages or in their phone calls. She claims that ”of course” she never documented anything bad about Travis. She says she went out of her way to protect Travis, even when he was allegedly abusive. Continue reading
Court spectators watched for eight days as Jodi told her version of the story, unchallenged and in intricate detail. During that time, nothing that she said could be challenged by the prosecutor. But her time to tell her version of events is over. Juan Martinez began his cross-examination of Jodi Arias Thursday, February 21, 2013. Continue reading
“David Gomez, president and chief executive of HLS Global Consulting Group, is a retired F.B.I. special agent and a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.”
According to his article in the New York Times entitled: Hate Speech Alone Can’t Lead to an Investigation:
“…I cherish the fact that in America it takes known or suspected criminal activity and not just speech to predicate an investigation of an individual or a white hate group. But considering the number of mass shooting deaths in recent years, perhaps white hate groups are not as great a threat as the mentally ill.
Rather than worrying about law enforcement investigation of groups of knuckleheads engaged in hateful speech, maybe society should focus on identifying and developing protocols to deal with the mentally ill. Because mental illness and hateful beliefs are a dangerous combination.”
