02-08-2015, 06:42 PM
(02-08-2015, 04:13 PM)NERN Wrote: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1skhlan
Excellent!
Thanks for holding down the fort and thanks for all your great posts. I like Zoey Watson's twitterlong posts. She is always insightful.
She made some excellent points about Nurmi turning off the jury by calling Dr. Demarte Dr. Death and implying she is a young whippersnapper who knows nothing compared to his older experienced wise experts.
Not only does it make him look like a bully but it makes him look stupid.
1- You don't bite off the head of the only expert that is providing you with a possible way for your client to escape the needle. Afterall, DeMarte is the only witness who can prove the only valid mitigator Jodi Arias has: mental illness aka Borderline Personality Disorder.
2- DeMarte is like a child protegy like Watson pointed out. At a young age, by being a supervisor and a teacher, DeMarte has accomplished much in her young age.
3- She is the only psychologist the jury has heard from who came across professional, objective and like a real expert.
The defense psychologist No. 1, Dr. Miccio-Fonesca, a sexpert, didn't even test Jodi Arias. She was recruited to say Travis Alexander was a pedophile but she even said he wasn't a pedophile and that she was just there to give her professional opinion on the sexual relationship between Arias and Alexander. All she did was analyze the text messages and come to the conclusion Travis Alexander had a jekyl and Hyde personality - T Dog was the sexual animal, that he was only interested in sex where Arias wanted love and that unrequited love leads to homicide. She came across as anything but a professional. She babbled on like a senile old lady and ignored Martinez questions and was offended when he brought up that she was forgetful and unprofessional in that she was psychoanalyzing a dead guy she hadn't even met. She came across biased and childlike.
The defense psychologist No. 2, Dr. Robert Geffner, smiled and laughed at inappropriate times and appeared to be scattered and forgetful also. He slipped and said Arias scored high on psychopathy and he also said her friends thought she was Bi Polar and so did he, but his test didn't show that. He diagnosed her as having PTSD based on Samuels test which was based on the Ninja story which was made up. So if she was having flashbacks of two Ninjas bursting into the house, that was a lie anyway. Like DeMarte said she couldn't have gone back into Alexander's house where she slaughtered him after the memorial if she had PTSD and she didn't seem anxious like most PTSD patients.
4- DeMarte's diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and her common sense analysis of Jodi Arias based on not only tests but interviews with her about her childhood and interviews with Arias maternal grandparents, cousin, Sky Hughes, Lisa Daidone, Taylor Searle, Zach Billings regarding Arias behavior makes much more sense than Fonesca's and Geffner's skewed "opinion" that is biased and designed to make Alexander look like the villain and Arias like the victim.
As for the aggravators, from what I've read of the juror instructions: the only aggravator the jurors can consider is the extreme cruelty and the only mitigators that they can consider are the ones the defense has listed. The only valid one is the mental illness and I think in re-direct Martinez will lead DeMarte to explain that she is only neurotic and not psychotic and the premeditation shows she knew right from wrong and they can see her whispering with Wilmott and De La Rosa so they know she is competent enough to help her legal team. She is not acting in the courtroom like a crazy person. Even those who do act like crazy people in front of the jury like Manson, Wuornos and the last cop killer Martinez sent to death row still get the death penalty. Manson originally got the death penalty but when California abolished the death penalty for a short period his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole.
The repeated evidence and testimony from the murder trial just helps them see why she was convicted of premeditated and felony first degree murder. I think the premeditation and cover-up will be important to decide if Arias is truly remorseful since they can't believe a word she says since she has lied so much.
The extreme cruelty will be brought home in Martinez closing statement with the autopsy pictures and the two minutes of silence to show how long Alexander suffered as he crawled and staggered from the shower to the bedroom rug where he bled out as she chased him and relentlessly stabbed him 29 times and slit his throat. He was already dead when she shot him in the head, according to the medical examiner, so his suffering stopped after he bled out on the rug and then she dragged his body to the shower to wash off all the evidence and cleaned up the blood off the floor and then threw the bedding, his clothing and camera in the washer, grabbed the gun and knives and took off.
I am sure the extreme cruelty that Alexander suffered will trump a personality disorder, her age and the abuse that the jury already knows never happened which is apparent from their questions of Geffner and Fonesca. We will get more insight into what this jury got from DeMarte's testimony when they ask her questions following Nurmi's cross exam and Martinez re-direct. The last jurors had over 100 questions of Arias and this jury only had three questions, which will never be answered because she refuses to take the stand again and be cross examined by Martinez and questioned by the jury. That may cause the jurors to just write off everything she said as one big fat lie like the I was never there, the Ninja story, the email to Abe that he never got and all the lies to Alexander about not being violent and slashing his tires and stalking him.