03-06-2015, 12:41 PM
I watched the press conference with the jurors on my local ABC TV station and I was very impressed with their intelligence, their diligence in trying to get a death sentence and their ability to see through the lies, manipulation and character assassination of Travis Alexander and that they saw Arias for what she was: a psychopath, liar and a cold blooded killer who would be a danger to society if she ever got out of prison.
I'm glad they saw that the porn and Mormon Church was irrelevant and didn't like the sleazy tactics of Nurmi but looked at "the records" themselves and made up their own mind that Travis Alexander was nothing like the monster the defense painted him to be.
I'm glad they also said while they wished they had more evidence that the first jury saw, it wouldn't have made any difference to the hold out juror because she was not interested in changing her mind once she read the journals which make Jodi Arias sound like a nice passive girl who just wanted love.
It looks to me like if one of the alternates or the woman who was excused because her mother died were on the jury instead of Juror No. 17, Arias would have gone to death row.
I think that's what makes it so frustrating.
Juror No. 17 apparently had sympathy for Arias because she too remained in a relationship that was not healthy for her and didn't have the psychological makeup to get out.
It is also unfortunate that Juror No. 17 also felt like the death penalty was revenge, instead of punishment for the brutal murder.
I, for one, am grateful for the jurors who tried to get a death sentence for the right reasons, that Arias deserved it.
I pity the juror who was taken in by the manipulative psychopath.
I'm glad they saw that the porn and Mormon Church was irrelevant and didn't like the sleazy tactics of Nurmi but looked at "the records" themselves and made up their own mind that Travis Alexander was nothing like the monster the defense painted him to be.
I'm glad they also said while they wished they had more evidence that the first jury saw, it wouldn't have made any difference to the hold out juror because she was not interested in changing her mind once she read the journals which make Jodi Arias sound like a nice passive girl who just wanted love.
It looks to me like if one of the alternates or the woman who was excused because her mother died were on the jury instead of Juror No. 17, Arias would have gone to death row.
I think that's what makes it so frustrating.
Juror No. 17 apparently had sympathy for Arias because she too remained in a relationship that was not healthy for her and didn't have the psychological makeup to get out.
It is also unfortunate that Juror No. 17 also felt like the death penalty was revenge, instead of punishment for the brutal murder.
I, for one, am grateful for the jurors who tried to get a death sentence for the right reasons, that Arias deserved it.
I pity the juror who was taken in by the manipulative psychopath.