04-28-2015, 09:31 PM
I'm still reading 'Behind the Words', Vol. 2. Nurmi is still asking the same things over and over, even going back to Jodi and Travis' short time of 'dating' and mixing the dates, until Juan inserts objections..."no foundation" and Nurmi must ask more. Arias continually answers differently than when she first replied to these regurgitated questions. Its almost time for Juan to start this cross examination of the witness. The author is prompted by all these 'different' answers to give a short summary of Jodi Arias. First though, this happened:
Well, its apparent that during the break, the dream team decided that they needed a second swipe at Rachel, Arias only female friend, and Travis. This will be the third time we’ve heard this story.
Nurmi says, “Miss Arias, before we delve too far into the text messages, I neglected to ask when you were, you were talking about your friendship with Rachel Blainey and her suggestion that she, that you….go to the Bishop…did you have a conversation with Travis about her suggestion?” Does Nurmi not realize that any suggestion Rachel Blainey would have made to Arias would have been after Travis was dead? Does Nurmi not know that Rachel Blainey urged Arias to ease the Alexander familty’s suffering and tell them why she killed Travis? Does Nurmi not realize that he is invoking the name of a Yreka detective who assisted Esteban Flores in the interrogation of Jodi Arias. He is looking more incompetent by the day. Do you get it? Rachel Blainey is a homicide detective. Nurmi gets paid $200 an hour to make these kinds of embarrassing mistakes.
Arias answers, “Yes, and just for the record, it’s Rachel Bennett.” Will the jury even be given a hint as to who Rachel Blainey is and why she is on Nurmi’s mind? Nope. Nurmi continues, “Sorry.” Judge Arias graciously pardons him: “That’s okay.” She pauses for a moment and than in a barely audible voice adds, “It WAS Rachel Bennett”. Then she makes a nasty little face. Nurmi asks, “What’s that?” Arias, quite pleased with the fact that she has an opportunity to gossip about a woman who told her to find her own place to live, says, “It was. I think she’s divorced.”
Does Arias not realize this type of useless disclosure makes her look like a vindictive bitch instead of a woman with a steel trap of a brain who remembers minute details? What follows is a bunch of rehashed testimony. Zebra Jodi pretends she was duped, deceived, and led into sin by a leader in the church.
The author continues:
Jodi Arias will never admit that she has ever been an instigator, an agitator, or a trouble maker. In every conflict raised under direct examination, she judges herself innocent. Lose her home, it’s the mortgage broker’s fault for not explaining the terms of the loan clearly enough. Kill her boyfriend, and it’s her boyfriend’s fault for pulling a naked ambush on her. Jodi Arias, by the time she killed Travis Alexander, had nothing but a broken down life. If we’ve learned anything about Jodi Arias, it is that she could not handle the responsibilities of daily American life.
Her work history is spotty, and besides a 3 year stint at one restaurant, she hopped from one server job to another, never attempting to advance her position (and the only time she did make some progress was when she was sleeping with the boss).
She struggled to establish her various residences, and when left on her own, she either squatted with family or friends, or lived in a tent. She had never maintained a rented studio apartment on her own. She cannot pay for vehicles, and she does not pay her other bills. Life, as most of us live it, was simply too much for Jodi Arias. She really does belong in an institution. The jury is not overlooking these serious personal failures, and they are not overlooking the fact that she intended to clean up the entire mess of a life in one swoop by becoming Mrs. Alexander. I’m sure her own rage choked her when that dream was crushed. Another problem for Arias is the fact that the jury has a bird’s eye view of her family of origin. They’re on full display in the row behind the defense table.
Does anyone else wonder why Jodi Arias never made one single friend in Mesa? She said that Rachel was her only close friend in the church. One of the easiest places to make lots of friends is in a church – especially the very orthodox, very closed, highly secretive churches that require lots of your free time. The fact that the women rejected Arias as a peer says a lot.
The same thing applies to PPL. Here’s an organization of people getting together for these super Saturday events and conventions, and Arias is not able to strike up a single friendship with a woman? It seems that all her social interactions involved men. Arias did not live a life with female friends because she has no interest in women.
(Personally, I think that is a good summary of Jodi Arias and the author has her pegged exactly.)
Well, its apparent that during the break, the dream team decided that they needed a second swipe at Rachel, Arias only female friend, and Travis. This will be the third time we’ve heard this story.
Nurmi says, “Miss Arias, before we delve too far into the text messages, I neglected to ask when you were, you were talking about your friendship with Rachel Blainey and her suggestion that she, that you….go to the Bishop…did you have a conversation with Travis about her suggestion?” Does Nurmi not realize that any suggestion Rachel Blainey would have made to Arias would have been after Travis was dead? Does Nurmi not know that Rachel Blainey urged Arias to ease the Alexander familty’s suffering and tell them why she killed Travis? Does Nurmi not realize that he is invoking the name of a Yreka detective who assisted Esteban Flores in the interrogation of Jodi Arias. He is looking more incompetent by the day. Do you get it? Rachel Blainey is a homicide detective. Nurmi gets paid $200 an hour to make these kinds of embarrassing mistakes.
Arias answers, “Yes, and just for the record, it’s Rachel Bennett.” Will the jury even be given a hint as to who Rachel Blainey is and why she is on Nurmi’s mind? Nope. Nurmi continues, “Sorry.” Judge Arias graciously pardons him: “That’s okay.” She pauses for a moment and than in a barely audible voice adds, “It WAS Rachel Bennett”. Then she makes a nasty little face. Nurmi asks, “What’s that?” Arias, quite pleased with the fact that she has an opportunity to gossip about a woman who told her to find her own place to live, says, “It was. I think she’s divorced.”
Does Arias not realize this type of useless disclosure makes her look like a vindictive bitch instead of a woman with a steel trap of a brain who remembers minute details? What follows is a bunch of rehashed testimony. Zebra Jodi pretends she was duped, deceived, and led into sin by a leader in the church.
The author continues:
Jodi Arias will never admit that she has ever been an instigator, an agitator, or a trouble maker. In every conflict raised under direct examination, she judges herself innocent. Lose her home, it’s the mortgage broker’s fault for not explaining the terms of the loan clearly enough. Kill her boyfriend, and it’s her boyfriend’s fault for pulling a naked ambush on her. Jodi Arias, by the time she killed Travis Alexander, had nothing but a broken down life. If we’ve learned anything about Jodi Arias, it is that she could not handle the responsibilities of daily American life.
Her work history is spotty, and besides a 3 year stint at one restaurant, she hopped from one server job to another, never attempting to advance her position (and the only time she did make some progress was when she was sleeping with the boss).
She struggled to establish her various residences, and when left on her own, she either squatted with family or friends, or lived in a tent. She had never maintained a rented studio apartment on her own. She cannot pay for vehicles, and she does not pay her other bills. Life, as most of us live it, was simply too much for Jodi Arias. She really does belong in an institution. The jury is not overlooking these serious personal failures, and they are not overlooking the fact that she intended to clean up the entire mess of a life in one swoop by becoming Mrs. Alexander. I’m sure her own rage choked her when that dream was crushed. Another problem for Arias is the fact that the jury has a bird’s eye view of her family of origin. They’re on full display in the row behind the defense table.
Does anyone else wonder why Jodi Arias never made one single friend in Mesa? She said that Rachel was her only close friend in the church. One of the easiest places to make lots of friends is in a church – especially the very orthodox, very closed, highly secretive churches that require lots of your free time. The fact that the women rejected Arias as a peer says a lot.
The same thing applies to PPL. Here’s an organization of people getting together for these super Saturday events and conventions, and Arias is not able to strike up a single friendship with a woman? It seems that all her social interactions involved men. Arias did not live a life with female friends because she has no interest in women.
(Personally, I think that is a good summary of Jodi Arias and the author has her pegged exactly.)