01-31-2015, 07:26 PM
Excellent points, Nern.
I found it very hard to watch the examination of the defense witnesses at the trial because both Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Wilmott waltzed and tap danced around all the questions unlike Martinez who asked pointed, direct questions and hit a bulls eye every time.
Maybe that’s why the jury and galley are nodding off when the defense is up and wake up and are alert and focused when Martinez is up to bat whether he is examining a state witness or cross examining a defense witness.
Example was in the 2011 deposition of Deanna Reid. Whatever defense attorney deposed Reid they asked her questions like: “Would it surprise you to know that Travis Alexander had sex with women besides Jodi Arias?.” Reid replied: I don’t know. He didn’t discuss his love life with me.”
“How many women do you know of that had sex with Travis Alexander?” She responded, “Two.”
They didn’t ask her to name the two women or she would have said: “Jodi Arias and me.”
Instead, Wilmott tried to prove Reid lied in the deposition because she didn’t come out and say she had sex with Travis Alexander. Reid replied, “You never asked me or I would have told you.”
Attorneys depose witnesses ahead of time so they know what the witness is going to say when they testify and a good attorney never asks a witness a question on the stand that they haven’t asked in deposition because the answer may hurt their case.
It makes no sense that the defense attorney wouldn’t ask Deanna Reid in the deposition if she had sex with Travis Alexander since they are trying to prove he was a sex maniac who had sex with every woman he talked to or dated.
Juan Martinez had no problem asking Deanna Reid on the stand, “Did you have sex with Travis Alexander?” because he knew she was going to be truthful since he had asked her that question in deposition. He knew Arias was testifying that Alexander told her he had sex with Deanna Reid and they lost their temple recommends when they admitted it to their bishops. Martinez wanted to bring it out himself so she could explain herself rather than have the defense ask her and make it look worse than it was.
When Nurmi cross examined Reid he was shocked that she admitted on the stand that she had sex with Travis Alexander. He fully expected her to deny it. If he or Wilmott had asked the question in the deposition, he would have known the answer and not been blind sighted.
Nurmi was so shocked he bumbled around and didn’t know what to ask her. In her media interviews after the verdict, Arias complained that Nurmi did not expose Reid as a liar because Arias said Reid had said in her defense deposition that she didn’t have sex with Travis Alexander.
Yet, Reid proved on the stand last week that she never lied. They just didn’t ask her directly or she would have told them the truth.
Nurmi and Wilmott keep losing in their battle to try to impeach the prosecution witnesses because it is not the prosecution witnesses who are lying. It is their pathological lying client and the crackpot witnesses she dug up who are too afraid to get up on the stand and face the human lie detector and perjury charges.
In his motions for mistrial and to try to get the charges dropped and the death penalty off the table, Nurmi whined that Martinez was bullying the defense witnesses and encouraging people on social media to bully them. Judge Stephens was not buying it. In denying the motion, the judge stated in her order that Martinez was simply vigorously cross examining the witnesses.
Arias complained in post conviction TV interviews and in a 12 page letter trying to fire him that she was upset that Nurmi did not impeach Deanna Reid and that he humiliated her by asking her questions about sex and playing the sex tape while she was on the stand. She only wanted Travis’s voice to be heard and the tape to be played in private.
Then when the judge wouldn’t allow her to fire Nurmi, Arias represented herself for two weeks just long enough to get two professional experts to lie for her and two other liars to write phony affidavits.
So I was not surprised to see Nurmi humiliated Flores, instead of Arias, by playing the sex tape when Flores was on the stand and Wilmott examined Arias during her secret testimony and didn’t ask her about every sex act she engaged in since she was a teenager and there was no testimony about being Alexander’s “dirty little secret.” Just questions on how remorseful Arias is and her horrible abusive childhood with drug addict parents to make Arias look like a victim of violent parents and a violent sex crazed Travis Alexander.
Miss Priss believes she has bested Martinez because he will not be able to cross examine her but she has actually fallen right into his trap. Now she has testified, he can play his cross examination from the last trial to show she is lying about being remorseful and exaggerating her bad childhood and admitting to stabbing Alexander 29 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head.
Because she didn’t testify to this jury about the bogus self defense story, Martinez may not be able to play that part of her testimony.
He will be able to play the testimony of Arias, Mimi, Lisa and any others he wishes when DeMarte testifies.
The state’s rebuttal case already started with a bang so I am excited to hear what other witnesses wipe out Arias lies and alibis.
I found it very hard to watch the examination of the defense witnesses at the trial because both Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Wilmott waltzed and tap danced around all the questions unlike Martinez who asked pointed, direct questions and hit a bulls eye every time.
Maybe that’s why the jury and galley are nodding off when the defense is up and wake up and are alert and focused when Martinez is up to bat whether he is examining a state witness or cross examining a defense witness.
Example was in the 2011 deposition of Deanna Reid. Whatever defense attorney deposed Reid they asked her questions like: “Would it surprise you to know that Travis Alexander had sex with women besides Jodi Arias?.” Reid replied: I don’t know. He didn’t discuss his love life with me.”
“How many women do you know of that had sex with Travis Alexander?” She responded, “Two.”
They didn’t ask her to name the two women or she would have said: “Jodi Arias and me.”
Instead, Wilmott tried to prove Reid lied in the deposition because she didn’t come out and say she had sex with Travis Alexander. Reid replied, “You never asked me or I would have told you.”
Attorneys depose witnesses ahead of time so they know what the witness is going to say when they testify and a good attorney never asks a witness a question on the stand that they haven’t asked in deposition because the answer may hurt their case.
It makes no sense that the defense attorney wouldn’t ask Deanna Reid in the deposition if she had sex with Travis Alexander since they are trying to prove he was a sex maniac who had sex with every woman he talked to or dated.
Juan Martinez had no problem asking Deanna Reid on the stand, “Did you have sex with Travis Alexander?” because he knew she was going to be truthful since he had asked her that question in deposition. He knew Arias was testifying that Alexander told her he had sex with Deanna Reid and they lost their temple recommends when they admitted it to their bishops. Martinez wanted to bring it out himself so she could explain herself rather than have the defense ask her and make it look worse than it was.
When Nurmi cross examined Reid he was shocked that she admitted on the stand that she had sex with Travis Alexander. He fully expected her to deny it. If he or Wilmott had asked the question in the deposition, he would have known the answer and not been blind sighted.
Nurmi was so shocked he bumbled around and didn’t know what to ask her. In her media interviews after the verdict, Arias complained that Nurmi did not expose Reid as a liar because Arias said Reid had said in her defense deposition that she didn’t have sex with Travis Alexander.
Yet, Reid proved on the stand last week that she never lied. They just didn’t ask her directly or she would have told them the truth.
Nurmi and Wilmott keep losing in their battle to try to impeach the prosecution witnesses because it is not the prosecution witnesses who are lying. It is their pathological lying client and the crackpot witnesses she dug up who are too afraid to get up on the stand and face the human lie detector and perjury charges.
In his motions for mistrial and to try to get the charges dropped and the death penalty off the table, Nurmi whined that Martinez was bullying the defense witnesses and encouraging people on social media to bully them. Judge Stephens was not buying it. In denying the motion, the judge stated in her order that Martinez was simply vigorously cross examining the witnesses.
Arias complained in post conviction TV interviews and in a 12 page letter trying to fire him that she was upset that Nurmi did not impeach Deanna Reid and that he humiliated her by asking her questions about sex and playing the sex tape while she was on the stand. She only wanted Travis’s voice to be heard and the tape to be played in private.
Then when the judge wouldn’t allow her to fire Nurmi, Arias represented herself for two weeks just long enough to get two professional experts to lie for her and two other liars to write phony affidavits.
So I was not surprised to see Nurmi humiliated Flores, instead of Arias, by playing the sex tape when Flores was on the stand and Wilmott examined Arias during her secret testimony and didn’t ask her about every sex act she engaged in since she was a teenager and there was no testimony about being Alexander’s “dirty little secret.” Just questions on how remorseful Arias is and her horrible abusive childhood with drug addict parents to make Arias look like a victim of violent parents and a violent sex crazed Travis Alexander.
Miss Priss believes she has bested Martinez because he will not be able to cross examine her but she has actually fallen right into his trap. Now she has testified, he can play his cross examination from the last trial to show she is lying about being remorseful and exaggerating her bad childhood and admitting to stabbing Alexander 29 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head.
Because she didn’t testify to this jury about the bogus self defense story, Martinez may not be able to play that part of her testimony.
He will be able to play the testimony of Arias, Mimi, Lisa and any others he wishes when DeMarte testifies.
The state’s rebuttal case already started with a bang so I am excited to hear what other witnesses wipe out Arias lies and alibis.