I thought it was especially powerful when Martinez turned the porn around on Arias and implied that Jodi Arias was saying Travis Alexander deserved to die because he watched porn.
He also said she had so much remorse she made up lies about Alexander being a pedophile and a perpetrator of domestic violence.
He showed the four autopsy pictures of Alexander with his slit throat and said, "This guy was bad for watching porn. Let's look him in the eye and say that."
He also pointed out that Borderline Personality Disorder is no excuse for murder and all it means is Arias has a fear of abandonment. DeMarte had said Arias killed Travis because she feared abandonment and she wanted to devalue him, which are symptoms of BPD.
The defense has no mitigators, which is why they spent so much trashing Alexander and using text messages to show Travis Alexander was a womanizer, liked sex and that there was porn on his computer and Arias has BPD and PTSD.
Nurmi will try to turn it back around but basically all he is saying is that the jury shouldn't kill her because she was once a little girl and she is a victim.
Martinez proved who the real victim was by showing the autopsy pictures.
Martinez didn't need to focus on the premeditation or suffering because the jury had already heard the jury's instruction that states the jury must accept:
1- The jury’s prior verdict of guilty of first degree murder.
2- The defendant caused the death of another, acted with premeditation and reflected on the act before the killing. The time may not be a prolonged amount of time in premeditation.
3- This act is death qualified in its cruel and heinous nature. It has been determined that the aggravating factor in that act was especially cruel. There was focus on pain and suffering and the defendant knew, or should have known that the victim would suffer.”
He also said she had so much remorse she made up lies about Alexander being a pedophile and a perpetrator of domestic violence.
He showed the four autopsy pictures of Alexander with his slit throat and said, "This guy was bad for watching porn. Let's look him in the eye and say that."
He also pointed out that Borderline Personality Disorder is no excuse for murder and all it means is Arias has a fear of abandonment. DeMarte had said Arias killed Travis because she feared abandonment and she wanted to devalue him, which are symptoms of BPD.
The defense has no mitigators, which is why they spent so much trashing Alexander and using text messages to show Travis Alexander was a womanizer, liked sex and that there was porn on his computer and Arias has BPD and PTSD.
Nurmi will try to turn it back around but basically all he is saying is that the jury shouldn't kill her because she was once a little girl and she is a victim.
Martinez proved who the real victim was by showing the autopsy pictures.
Martinez didn't need to focus on the premeditation or suffering because the jury had already heard the jury's instruction that states the jury must accept:
1- The jury’s prior verdict of guilty of first degree murder.
2- The defendant caused the death of another, acted with premeditation and reflected on the act before the killing. The time may not be a prolonged amount of time in premeditation.
3- This act is death qualified in its cruel and heinous nature. It has been determined that the aggravating factor in that act was especially cruel. There was focus on pain and suffering and the defendant knew, or should have known that the victim would suffer.”