I've been outraged and offended from the beginning as the defense dragged through the mud my LDS faith and a fellow member who was brutally murdered by their client.
I think the jury and public are offended and outraged with Nurmi's abuse of an elderly man who has served his church for all of his life. With accusing Bishop Parker of committing perjury and lying under oath, which is why he has an attorney, Nurmi is coming across as a big bully who is picking on an elderly man of God.
Attorney Jeff Gold tweeted that jurors don't like to see attorneys beating up men of the cloth and Jen Wood tweeted that the jurors were not amused by Nurmi's theatrics, but sat there with a straight face.
The only time the jurors took any notes is when he started talking about Deanna Reid wanting to go on a mission before she married Travis Alexander and when he corrected Nurmi when he said Alexander was engaged to Linda Ballard. Bishop Parker said he met Linda Ballard and they hadn't gotten engaged. Ballard told Nancy Grace they had planned on being married in February 2002 but she broke it off before he gave her the engagement ring he bought for her.
The only person Nurmi is putting on this show for is Arias. He wants her to take back all those nasty things she said in the 12 page letter when she tried to fire him and to the media about him being an incompetent attorney. He doesn't care what the jurors think.
The bishop might have made a mistake on the date that Jake lived there and may think he should protect Travis Alexander's memory, but I think the bishop made the biggest point this morning by saying the pop ups basically were not punishable because it wasn't really porn by the world's standards, nothing you wouldn't see on TV.
What Witness No. 1 reported to the Bishop were simply pictures of women in bikinis or bras and pants like in Victoria Secret ads. Hardly anything that would traumatize Witness No. 1, a grown man about to get married.
It's all a diversion to hide the fact that Witness No. 1 lied on his affidavit when he signed under penalty of perjury that he found child porn on the computer with Travis Alexander's name on the folder and said he didn't report it to the bishop because he worried he would be sanctioned and not be able to be married in the temple.
The bishop was telling the truth when he testified that Witness No. 1 reported pop ups of "scantily clad women" and the shop that got rid of the computer virus responsible for the popups stated that there was no "child porn" on the computer.
The bishop stated Deanna and McGee went to the same singles ward and he insisted they all knew each other. That doesn't mean Deanna and McGee knew each other. The singles ward was large so they wouldn't even remember meeting each other 15 years later.
When the jurors go to deliberate, they aren't going to care if Travis Alexander looked at pop ups of women in bikinis or bras and panties like in the Victoria Secret commercials. They are going to be asked to weigh whether the mitigating factors (of which there are none) outweigh the aggravators (autopsy pictures of Travis Alexander's body riddled with stab wounds, a slit throat and a bullet in his head, the medical examiner's testimony that Alexander suffered greatly as he tried to get away from his murderer and the cruel and premeditated elements of this gruesome murder.)
I think the jury and public are offended and outraged with Nurmi's abuse of an elderly man who has served his church for all of his life. With accusing Bishop Parker of committing perjury and lying under oath, which is why he has an attorney, Nurmi is coming across as a big bully who is picking on an elderly man of God.
Attorney Jeff Gold tweeted that jurors don't like to see attorneys beating up men of the cloth and Jen Wood tweeted that the jurors were not amused by Nurmi's theatrics, but sat there with a straight face.
The only time the jurors took any notes is when he started talking about Deanna Reid wanting to go on a mission before she married Travis Alexander and when he corrected Nurmi when he said Alexander was engaged to Linda Ballard. Bishop Parker said he met Linda Ballard and they hadn't gotten engaged. Ballard told Nancy Grace they had planned on being married in February 2002 but she broke it off before he gave her the engagement ring he bought for her.
The only person Nurmi is putting on this show for is Arias. He wants her to take back all those nasty things she said in the 12 page letter when she tried to fire him and to the media about him being an incompetent attorney. He doesn't care what the jurors think.
The bishop might have made a mistake on the date that Jake lived there and may think he should protect Travis Alexander's memory, but I think the bishop made the biggest point this morning by saying the pop ups basically were not punishable because it wasn't really porn by the world's standards, nothing you wouldn't see on TV.
What Witness No. 1 reported to the Bishop were simply pictures of women in bikinis or bras and pants like in Victoria Secret ads. Hardly anything that would traumatize Witness No. 1, a grown man about to get married.
It's all a diversion to hide the fact that Witness No. 1 lied on his affidavit when he signed under penalty of perjury that he found child porn on the computer with Travis Alexander's name on the folder and said he didn't report it to the bishop because he worried he would be sanctioned and not be able to be married in the temple.
The bishop was telling the truth when he testified that Witness No. 1 reported pop ups of "scantily clad women" and the shop that got rid of the computer virus responsible for the popups stated that there was no "child porn" on the computer.
The bishop stated Deanna and McGee went to the same singles ward and he insisted they all knew each other. That doesn't mean Deanna and McGee knew each other. The singles ward was large so they wouldn't even remember meeting each other 15 years later.
When the jurors go to deliberate, they aren't going to care if Travis Alexander looked at pop ups of women in bikinis or bras and panties like in the Victoria Secret commercials. They are going to be asked to weigh whether the mitigating factors (of which there are none) outweigh the aggravators (autopsy pictures of Travis Alexander's body riddled with stab wounds, a slit throat and a bullet in his head, the medical examiner's testimony that Alexander suffered greatly as he tried to get away from his murderer and the cruel and premeditated elements of this gruesome murder.)