Everyone is in court on time this morning and then there is an announcement the trial will be delayed an hour. Something is afoot. Or it just Because, Arizona.
Also the third ring of the circus involving Jodi’s secret testimony, the appellate court gave their official opinion today. She can’t testify in secret and the records from the previous testimony must be unsealed. Because, duh. HOWEVER, Nurmi wants to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court. Because, stalling.
Eventually, we begin with Nurmi and Juan arguing over discovery issues. Basically, they are both whining to the judge that the other side has something they are not turning over.
Pool Pic by Tom Tingle
Dr. Geffner has been on the stand five minutes and everyone is bored stiff. He’s going over a trauma inventory test. They are trying to show she has guilt and remorse. I don’t care how many self-reported tests they show us, I don’t believe them.
Geffner goes through a number of trauma’s in Jodi’s life including abusive parents, abuse boyfriend (her first boyfriend held a knife to her throat) Jodi said that Travis was the most traumatic thing in her life. Yeah, it’s hard to find a bigger trauma than brutally stabbing and nearly decapitating a dude you screwed a few hours earlier. Geffner says the PTSD is from the relationship and not “the crime.” How the hell was that determination made? He says she has PTSD and has been suicidal in the past.
Geffner did a power point of abusive relationships and concluded that Travis was abusive to Jodi. He said that Travis controlled her and she really didn’t want to have all of that anal sex she begged him for.
*LUNCH*
Pool pic by Tom Tingle
After lunch there was some back and forth over the mirror image of the computer at issue in the ridiculous prosecutorial ring of the circus. Juan said on the lunch break the mirror image the defense wants was tested and it works fine. Nurmi says Nuemeister tried it with a write blocker and it would not open for him. The judge says for the computer experts on both sides to get together and work it out.
Jury comes back for the main event. Geffner drones on abut cycles of abuse. Travis would abuse Jodi and then they would have makeup sex and things would be good again for a while and then the cycle would repeat. There were graphs and charts and powerpoints for this basic domestic violence cycle that everyone in the world already knows.
Geffner refers to texts and journal entries where Jodi says she always knew the fight was over when they had sex. Cycle of abuse. Jodi was a victim….blah blah blah learned helplessness. This is such a load of BS. Travis was verbally abusive to Jodi. He called her names like 3 hole wonder and slut and whore. When Travis distanced himself from her in public she was humiliated. When Travis called her “pure evil” it was a stab to her heart. Someone needs to show this fool Travis’ autopsy pictures so he can see what a stab to the heart is. Geffner says that Jodi broke up with Daryl before dating Travis. She was monogamous and he was not. This devastated her. He would text Jodi to come over because he was horny. He also sent other women the same texts.
We move on to Jodi’s crappy childhood and how childhood abuse results in problems adjusting to life as a result. Travis was also abused as a child. Abused boys tend to be more prone to violence as and adult white abused female are more likely to be victims of abuse. Again, the theme of the day is Jodi is the victim in the relationship. My mind boggles. Both of Jodi’s parents deny there was any abuse and say that Jodi began having issues in her early teens acting bizarrely and lying a lot. She has very spotty memory between the ages of 12-14. Yeah, and I can’t remember most of the ’80s. What’s your point, Geffner? During those two years she got her period and some boy held a knife to her throat. Yep, puberty is hard. Jodi says she sort of spaced out in the fourth grade and has been that way ever since.
Jodi says her childhood was pleasant. But then the WOODEN SPOON incident is brought up. Her mother would whack her with a wooden spoon, her father would beat her with a belt. The tiniest violin in the world plays in the background. Pretty much anyone of a certain age in the south had corporal punishment. I recall switches, belts, wood spoons, those stupid paddle balls with the rubber string I was dumb enough to ask for, fly swatters, or whatever happened to be handy. Oh and the HAIRBRUSH over the head for not sitting still when Mama would brush my hair! Cleary I was a terrible child. 🙂 Still, haven’t brutally murdered anyone. Yet.
He’s talking about her kicking holes in her wall when she was mad with her mother. How is this good for the defense? Says she was a terrible housekeeper. Again, so am I. Still haven’t killed anyone. Jodi spent too much money. AHA! I am very good with money! It’s like my only good quality. Mostly frugal except this year I actually bought a few Christmas presents instead of being a Scrooge.
Okay I sort of forgot I was blogging this. We’re done for the day. It was ridiculous. And boring. Sorry.
Thank you TT! I appreciate the time you put into this.
Awesome read. But then all your recaps are great. Thank you.
Are you kidding me? No need to be sorry…you are the best… better than all the rest!!
my moms favorite was using her leather sandal when i got her angry, dad used a belt but that was for more serious trouble. back then moms could give you a crack in the grocery store for grabbing stuff and nobody blinked an eye. so its another poor jodi day, EVERYBODY else made her into a brutal murderer so its not her fault. i want to read what baloney she fed the jury that we didnt get to hear, you know she had to give them some whopper BS since nobody was to hear it. thanks TT, how do you stay awake through this? but we are glad you do
Lol. I can remember mama’s walking around the grocery story with switches laid out on the buggy’s (that is a cart for y’all yankees) handle, whilst smoking. And I’m just dipping into my 30s.
I’m having a rough night and I love the SHADE at the Yankees.. lol.
I’m sorry I love a lot of Yankees but some of us will NEVER be over the war of Northern Agression! 🙂
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote: > >
LOL someone sent me the document about the media ring of the circus and began with, I notice you had not posted anything yet… and I was like WHA? I watched this shit all day… I kind of nodded off before hitting post.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote: > >
Sorry , TT. that might have been me sending the PDF file. I wasn’t complaining or being critical about there being no post yet. I had been checking periodically because I wanted to see what you had to say.
Your courtroom recaps are the best and I, unlike you, don’t have the patience to follow the media tweets on twitter.
I was having an edgy day and needed to be distracted.
This is so stupid! When you compare Jodi’s alleged abuse to Travis’ known abuse….yet who killed who? I thought Dr. Geffner said abused boys tend to become VIOLENT and abused females tend to become VICTIMS of abuse? I hope Juan makes the doctor repeat that on cross. I guess Jodi isn’t typical? LMAO because CIRCUS!
Dr. Geffner’s shitty dye job makes it look like he has a mustache full of semen.
I never post but lurk a lot and I must say this post was hilarious and the comments made me pee a little:
Back then moms would give you a crack in the grocery store- Ha!
And Geffners dye job makes it look like semen in his mustache made me pee a lot. I come here for comic relief and am rarely disappointed so thank you.
I would take a wooden spoon paddling over getting a whooping by a switch on naked legs in the summer. Owwee that shit smarts. And my grandmother was especially devious, as she would tell you to go pick a switch, then tell you it was too fat, pick another. Bring that one back, it’s too small, pick another. This could go on for several trips back and forth, mind you. It was worse than the actual whipping. Guess what Dr. Geffner, I love and miss my granny to this day, and she tore me up on the regular, but i would never say she abused me!
Do all Grandma’s do that same trick? Lol, I use to always pick the small ones which really stung more!
Yes, honey, those little ones will wrap around your legs and “stripe you up good.”
A big fat stick is probably preferable.
Yeah but kids are stupid and pick the little ones.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote: > >
Tamara…just wanted to say I appreciate you breaking this circus of a trial down for all us common folk, who don’t understand all the mumbo, jumbo, that the experts spew. I subscribe to a site that follows the Jodi Arias trial, and I swear, that your blogs on the JA trial are better than the one that charge. You wit, and humor, and your “because, Arizona” makes me laugh, each and every time you use that, because its so proper in this case. You have a gift, and are very talented writer. You should write your own book, on Arias…you know it well enough
If having had a cheating BF who uses you for f-buddy sex after you break up and d*cks you around because he doesn’t want to commit causes PTSD, then pretty sure we all have it.
Amen!
Thank you, TT for your posts! We all appreciate you! I watched this trial every day and I was so intrigued by this physo, my family was annoyed beyond that I wasted so much time. I would wish you Happy Holidays with peace and joy!
OMGoodness, TT. I saw some shots of Maria de la Rosa, the mitigation specialist for JA who was caught smuggling documents from the jail this summer. She was looking very cougarlicious in a Santa hat. Anyhoo, she is posting under several names… cougarlicious and MDLR to name two. Sexy shots plus it appears from these screenshots of her facebook pages that she is also giving secret court doings to a couple of different people in the media and Juan is now about to call her on it. I also read that the porno arguments are that when the defense has the computer there are porn sites, but the defense are the only people who can see it. When Juan has the computer… no porn. When Judge Stevens has the computer, no porn.
One other piece of mitigation specialist info has something to do with a 3-way phone call that included Jodi and a contraband phone in the jail. Have you posted this and I missed it? I hope I haven’t caused you extra work. It just all sounds so true. If I have broken the rules, I’m so sorry b/c I have no tokens to pay my way out of time out.