02-23-2015, 08:40 PM
(02-23-2015, 08:31 PM)NERN Wrote: Maybe the defense read my post questioning their intention of putting on more witnesses after the crucifying of Geffner last week - LOL, LOL !!
The COA said that it was reasonable to have the media and public in another room listening as Arias speaks. Given this, good chance it will happen during her allocution.
Arias will allocate - she has to have the last word.
I would also bet that she will get it in there that she is doing so with the courtroom cleared because of the death threats against her.
Trouble with this is that although not actually watching her, they will be listening and will report what she says immediately - the very thing she didn't want.
I do not understand that she does not have to allocate in open court as other defendants must. She is not special. And for sure, other defendants have had death threats as well.
We would have been remiss if we had thought that one last grandstanding act wouldn't have been done by Arias. With the end so near, she had to do something!
The jury will see that she is alone before them - NOT UNDER OATH - and find it very difficult to believe anything that she says.
Nern, I hadn't actually thought of her allocuting (or is it allocating? I don't know.) while NOT UNDER OATH. I wonder if the jury will think of that - the not under oath thing. I believe that Arias testified in the first trial while under oath and I didn't believe anything she said. I don't think the jury believed much of her testimony either. I really am curious what this current jury will say after this trial is over and done with. I hope some of them speak out. I hope this thing gets over soon before more jurors are kicked out.