Last week Judge Stephens had told the jury the trial could be over by the end of this week.
I think it is unlikely that will happen since Nurmi said he was recalling Miccio-Fonseca, Pseudonym computer guy John Smith and the defense's former computer guy Lonnie Dvorkin to the stand this week.
Nurmi spent two days with Geffner so Fonseca will be probably be on the stand another two days and then Smith and Dvorkin at least a day each. Arias allocution will take probably a half a day or a day and the closing statements will take a day or two. Most likely it will be the end of next week before the jury starts deliberating.
Nurmi will take his time and have his witnesses repeat that Alexander is a porn watching sex maniac and violent abuser and Arias is a naĂŻve little girl who just wanted love, marriage and children so it is fresh in the jury's minds when they go to deliberate.
If they haven't already got their mind made up, I think it is the closing statements that will convince the jurors to vote for death over life.
I watched the closing statements again from the first trial to see how Martinez brought it home to the jury so that they found her guilty of first degree murder. I am sure in this last closing statement, he will repeat the same performance to show how Alexander suffered to get a death sentence. It was masterful how he showed the knife attack with dialogue and photographs by explaining that the attack was planned and premeditated and directed. It wasn't a frenzy attack in the heat of the moment. Each stab wound was direct and calculated. She had one purpose in mind: make sure Alexander was dead.
Martinez showed the last picture of Travis Alexander alive. The photo showed him from the waist down sitting on the floor of his shower to show that she ambush him where he was his most vulnerable, helpless, unarmed, naked and sitting on the floor of his shower. The picture showed a vulnerable victim, not an angry predator who would explode, body slam her, chase her and tackle her like a linebacker and threaten to kill her. He detailed each stab wound to show that she was not in a fog, not in a rage, but that she was determined to make him suffer and kill him. Then he showed how she dragged the body back to the sink to finish him off with a gunshot to the head and then dragged the body back to the shower to wash off all the evidence and then deleted the pictures on the camera which shows someone who is clearly thinking and planning how to get away with murder.
I am interested to see what kind of performance Arias gives in her allocution and how Nurmi tries to minimize the suffering and make Arias the victim and Alexander the villain. This time they have left out the self defense and are focusing on assassinating Alexander's character and turning Arias into a mentally ill little girl who just wanted to love him.
While Martinez will use facts and evidence, Nurmi most likely will just blither and blather and hope the jurors feel sorry for Arias and give her life.
I think it is unlikely that will happen since Nurmi said he was recalling Miccio-Fonseca, Pseudonym computer guy John Smith and the defense's former computer guy Lonnie Dvorkin to the stand this week.
Nurmi spent two days with Geffner so Fonseca will be probably be on the stand another two days and then Smith and Dvorkin at least a day each. Arias allocution will take probably a half a day or a day and the closing statements will take a day or two. Most likely it will be the end of next week before the jury starts deliberating.
Nurmi will take his time and have his witnesses repeat that Alexander is a porn watching sex maniac and violent abuser and Arias is a naĂŻve little girl who just wanted love, marriage and children so it is fresh in the jury's minds when they go to deliberate.
If they haven't already got their mind made up, I think it is the closing statements that will convince the jurors to vote for death over life.
I watched the closing statements again from the first trial to see how Martinez brought it home to the jury so that they found her guilty of first degree murder. I am sure in this last closing statement, he will repeat the same performance to show how Alexander suffered to get a death sentence. It was masterful how he showed the knife attack with dialogue and photographs by explaining that the attack was planned and premeditated and directed. It wasn't a frenzy attack in the heat of the moment. Each stab wound was direct and calculated. She had one purpose in mind: make sure Alexander was dead.
Martinez showed the last picture of Travis Alexander alive. The photo showed him from the waist down sitting on the floor of his shower to show that she ambush him where he was his most vulnerable, helpless, unarmed, naked and sitting on the floor of his shower. The picture showed a vulnerable victim, not an angry predator who would explode, body slam her, chase her and tackle her like a linebacker and threaten to kill her. He detailed each stab wound to show that she was not in a fog, not in a rage, but that she was determined to make him suffer and kill him. Then he showed how she dragged the body back to the sink to finish him off with a gunshot to the head and then dragged the body back to the shower to wash off all the evidence and then deleted the pictures on the camera which shows someone who is clearly thinking and planning how to get away with murder.
I am interested to see what kind of performance Arias gives in her allocution and how Nurmi tries to minimize the suffering and make Arias the victim and Alexander the villain. This time they have left out the self defense and are focusing on assassinating Alexander's character and turning Arias into a mentally ill little girl who just wanted to love him.
While Martinez will use facts and evidence, Nurmi most likely will just blither and blather and hope the jurors feel sorry for Arias and give her life.