I thought the Just Da Truth blog posted Dec. 8, 2014, "Jodi Arias: The Nurminator" was brilliant because Brad points out that Nurmi and Wilmot are using the same tactics that the law professor teaches her students on the ABC TV Show "How to Get away with Murder" and his uncle a public defender told him he uses.
Here’s some excerpts from the blog of the public defender techniques Nurmi is using:
Discredit the witnesses: No matter who it is or what their standing is, do what you can to cast doubt on their expertise or credentials. Whatever it takes to knock a little of their shine off—it's all fair game.
Willmott showed us how that's done when she went toe-to-toe with DeMarte and tried to imply she was too young, too inexperienced or had somehow cheated the system. Notice Willmott didn't deny DeMarte's assessment that Jodi had a personality disorder, because she found that to be valuable info, but she did try to paint DeMarte as a young, over-eager fledgling who had barely got her feet wet.
When we wonder why witnesses like Deanne Reid, and Lisa and others of Travis's friends are pulled through the wringer when they're not the ones on trial, this is why. Willmott and Nurmi are playing this strategy to the hilt.
As it turns out, from my research, this is the most commonly used defense tactic. We see this right now with all police and prosecution mistakes taking center stage. Jodi is suppose to be pleading for her life and showing mitigators, instead they're arguing over who plugged in a computer 6 1/2 years ago. While in the normal course of evidence gathering plugging in a computer without protection is not the end of the world, Nurmi would have you believe it's a far greater crime than slashing a naked man's throat.
Bury the evidence in bullshit: This is what my uncle spoke of. Create confusion, distraction, ambivalence and basically gas-lighting the jury to the point they don't feel confident in anything they think is true. Once they reach that point, they are backed into reasonable doubt territory. Again, we see this with supporters. Their heads are spinning with all the supposed confusion, but in reality, it's all black and white and the defense team has muddied the waters to such a point they can't help but doubt their own opinions.
Nurmi's biggest "bury the evidence in bullshit" is all this smoke and mirrors about Travis and the porn. No one cares if Travis looked at porn, but Nurmi wants that jury to think it's a very important part of the case. Nurmi is banking on a jury that is so confused by all the bullshit, and probably not very savvy or particularly smart about the defense strategies, that they throw up their hands and give her Life, just because they can't live with themselves giving her death when they don't know what to believe.
If you doubt any of this, ask yourself why we still haven't heard why Jodi's life should be spared. Ask yourself where are all the mitigators that Jodi was going to introduce. Ask yourself why all this 'evidence' came up now, at a time when it's the perfect opportunity for Nurmi to file motions to delay as long as possible. Ask yourself also why, in her literal hour of need, her witnesses refuse to take the stand. It's not just one, it's 3, including Jodi herself. They know that delays the trial, and the defense team is trying to squeak in a Superior Court ruling, knowing that will take up even more time.
Those witnesses, if they really cared about Jodi, would get on that stand no matter what. Look at all the supporters who say 'damn the haters, I'd be there for Jodi", and yet, people who are closer to her, refuse to take the stand. They're refusing because it's Nurmi's job to coax them to do just that. All he has to do is suggest if they're so 'afraid' of haters and the media, they don't have to take the stand and what a wonderful thing that will be to Jodi after all.
Nurmi would not be doing any of this if Jodi were innocent. Nurmi is using these slimy under-handed strategies because he has nothing else to fall back on. These are the last ditch efforts of a defense attorney who knows his client is guilty of first degree premeditated murder and his job title demands he pulls out the big slimy guns and deflect the juries attention to the true crime sitting over there on the other side on the courtroom with the smirk on her face and the giggle beneath her breath.
To read the entire blog go to:
http://justdatruth2012.blogspot.ca/2014/12/jodi-arias-nurminator.html
Here’s some excerpts from the blog of the public defender techniques Nurmi is using:
Discredit the witnesses: No matter who it is or what their standing is, do what you can to cast doubt on their expertise or credentials. Whatever it takes to knock a little of their shine off—it's all fair game.
Willmott showed us how that's done when she went toe-to-toe with DeMarte and tried to imply she was too young, too inexperienced or had somehow cheated the system. Notice Willmott didn't deny DeMarte's assessment that Jodi had a personality disorder, because she found that to be valuable info, but she did try to paint DeMarte as a young, over-eager fledgling who had barely got her feet wet.
When we wonder why witnesses like Deanne Reid, and Lisa and others of Travis's friends are pulled through the wringer when they're not the ones on trial, this is why. Willmott and Nurmi are playing this strategy to the hilt.
As it turns out, from my research, this is the most commonly used defense tactic. We see this right now with all police and prosecution mistakes taking center stage. Jodi is suppose to be pleading for her life and showing mitigators, instead they're arguing over who plugged in a computer 6 1/2 years ago. While in the normal course of evidence gathering plugging in a computer without protection is not the end of the world, Nurmi would have you believe it's a far greater crime than slashing a naked man's throat.
Bury the evidence in bullshit: This is what my uncle spoke of. Create confusion, distraction, ambivalence and basically gas-lighting the jury to the point they don't feel confident in anything they think is true. Once they reach that point, they are backed into reasonable doubt territory. Again, we see this with supporters. Their heads are spinning with all the supposed confusion, but in reality, it's all black and white and the defense team has muddied the waters to such a point they can't help but doubt their own opinions.
Nurmi's biggest "bury the evidence in bullshit" is all this smoke and mirrors about Travis and the porn. No one cares if Travis looked at porn, but Nurmi wants that jury to think it's a very important part of the case. Nurmi is banking on a jury that is so confused by all the bullshit, and probably not very savvy or particularly smart about the defense strategies, that they throw up their hands and give her Life, just because they can't live with themselves giving her death when they don't know what to believe.
If you doubt any of this, ask yourself why we still haven't heard why Jodi's life should be spared. Ask yourself where are all the mitigators that Jodi was going to introduce. Ask yourself why all this 'evidence' came up now, at a time when it's the perfect opportunity for Nurmi to file motions to delay as long as possible. Ask yourself also why, in her literal hour of need, her witnesses refuse to take the stand. It's not just one, it's 3, including Jodi herself. They know that delays the trial, and the defense team is trying to squeak in a Superior Court ruling, knowing that will take up even more time.
Those witnesses, if they really cared about Jodi, would get on that stand no matter what. Look at all the supporters who say 'damn the haters, I'd be there for Jodi", and yet, people who are closer to her, refuse to take the stand. They're refusing because it's Nurmi's job to coax them to do just that. All he has to do is suggest if they're so 'afraid' of haters and the media, they don't have to take the stand and what a wonderful thing that will be to Jodi after all.
Nurmi would not be doing any of this if Jodi were innocent. Nurmi is using these slimy under-handed strategies because he has nothing else to fall back on. These are the last ditch efforts of a defense attorney who knows his client is guilty of first degree premeditated murder and his job title demands he pulls out the big slimy guns and deflect the juries attention to the true crime sitting over there on the other side on the courtroom with the smirk on her face and the giggle beneath her breath.
To read the entire blog go to:
http://justdatruth2012.blogspot.ca/2014/12/jodi-arias-nurminator.html