It’s time for another day in the Jodi Arias Trial. Today Mesa police computer forensics guys are going to talk about the whole porn versus virus nonsense on Travis’s laptop. So far we have no explanation for why the judge questioned all the jurors one by one, but they are all back today. There is some sort of issue that the defense has about something someone said to the mitigation specialist, Maria De la Rosa which was racist. Not sure what was said, or who said it but they are bringing it to the attention of the court for some reason. Maybe all of this will make sense as I read on . But, I’m not overly optimistic. It appears that some trial watchers, some of whom are bloggers made racial taunts toward Maria as she left court. They also took pictures of her and posted them online.
The first computer expert to take the stand is Robert Brown. Basically this dude says that the porn was put on the computer by Spy Bot Search and Destroy. Wow. That’s a program I have used in the past. He reads the names of porn sites that were on the computer only after he installed Spybot. Basically, he ran a test to determine this using a clean hard drive and then installing the program. Apparently, Spybot puts the site names in to immunize the system from those sites. Or something. On May 27th 2008 the laptop was attacked by several viruses.
No child porn found on the computer. After about 45 minutes Juan is done with the witness. Willmott is up and she says there were four pornographic photos found on Travis’s laptop. He says it depends on your definition of pornographic. She starts putting up the photos, sometimes covering them. First a nude woman. Porn. Second a naked female’s butt. Not Porn. Next a woman giving a guy a blow job. Porn. These were deleted pictures recovered by cops. They were not the result of a virus. Willmott brings up Travis going on match.com and Adult Friend Finder. Whatever. This is ridiculous. Wilmott rattles off some porn movies that were accessed. That was basically it.
Juan on redirect has the dude point out that all the salacious video titles were flipped through in one 45 minute visit to the site. If I’m a juror on this trial I’m thinking the dude’s porn stash was extremely lacking and quite vanilla. I feel bad for his lack of adventures porn library. Venus Monster Anal Fuck Machine is Willmott’s favorite. She repeated the title a lot. It does sound promising. Travis had zero porn movies downloaded on the computer and it’s hard to say if he actually watched movies or if they were just ads for websites.
One jury question, ” Can Spybot search and destroy add history to the cookie registries?” Brown says no.
Time for lunch and a quickie jerkoff in the bathroom.
After a very satisfying lunch break everyone is back. The defense has two matters to address. First, they once again ask for Detective Smith to be precluded from testifying today as they have no report. Denied again. Next there is one person in court was racially taunted a member of the defense and three others that are hostile and he wants all four of them ejected. Stephens says she didn’t see the incident and can’t just throw people out of the courtroom without a hearing. They can’t do a hearing now on that matter and keep the jury waiting. They may do one later.
Smith goes on the stand and gives the dates when the laptop was last accessed. It was done by the defense. They download things to three jump drives. I have no idea what they are talking about there were mostly sidebars and they eventually just decided to call it a day. Juan says he has one more witness for tomorrow, Lonnie Dworkin who was the original computer expert for the defense in the guilt phase.
The judge called Dworkin in open court and he will be there tomorrow at 10. Nurmi is blowing a gasket. This is unethical! This is an outrage! How can he call the defense expert! Stephens says he will be taking the stand. Juan says he will be resting his case tomorrow after Dworkin.
Nurmi says he doesn’t have a witness until February 18 and that Geffner (oh God not him again) can’t testify again until February 25th or 26th. The judge is pissed. But will she do anything? I thought people came to testify when they were told.
Later, the head of courtroom security came in and something happened with the defense’s request to have three or four women thrown out of the courtroom for singing an inappropriate song to Maria as she left court the other day. There was no hearing but the defense seemed pleased. The bitches will probably be banned from the courtroom. If you act like an ass in court, they should be tossed. In the Casey Anthony trial people were tossed out all the time for nodding off.
Until tomorrow…
Why are we wasting tax dollars on this woman? I just don’t get it. She is crazy and everyone knows she killed that man.
Every time I check in with you on this Damn case, it’s back to the porn! Your recaps are THE only way I could get through JA 2.0
I don’t know how you do this shit!
I kind of feel bad for Nurmi and Wilmott on this one they did not have a chance in he’ll she’s guilty as the day is long. You can tell throughout this entire process that guy has been grasping at straws. I bet Jodi is so hard to work with.
For someone about to get the DP, Jodi sure looks happy in that photo!
Ya, that photo really bugs me, too. As a convict, she should be lead into and out of court in handcuffs, a chain around her waist and her feet hobbled. In a prison stripe jumpsuit. She should NOT be carrying defense materials and made to feel important or playing lawyer Jr.
“Playing lawyer..” Very well put. And you’re right again, she ought to be shackled like Hannibal Lecter.
I just cannot believe the insanity of this trial. Smh
Is it my imagination, or did Juan pretty much move his business along in a timely fashion? I wonder how much longer the defense are going to take this time around. I am starting to think Nurmi doesn’t want to be her attorney was a bunch of BS. He loves the attention or he would not be dragging it out far longer than he needs to. He probably knew the judge would not dismiss him with it being a DP case. He wants the public to think he dislikes her (which he most likely hates her because she has made him look like a monkey for never listening to him) and all the motions to get himself set free takes so much extra time. He is getting paid his regular rate per hour by the state because he cried hardship. I thought court appointed cases made the attorney a lot less than the private practice cases. This whole shit and shebang circus, should have ended long, long ago . But no. Because….you know. 🙂
The issue with the court watchers was something that happened outside of the courthouse, not in the courtroom. You can’t just throw people out of the courtroom without a hearing and proper investigation. You case you quoted in the Fla. trial happened in the courtroom where Judge Belvin could take immediate action. If start throwing people out without a hearing then the DT will just keep making up things and have everyone thrown out.
There is no need to have a hearing to throw someone out of the courtroom. That is what courthouse security is for. The judge would have a hearing if there were going to be some sort of charges.
I wonder how much Nurmi and Wilmot are being paid. Could it be that they are dragging it out for the $$? The jurors must be tired of the repetitiveness of the defense and of being treated as though they are so dumb that the same points have to hammered home multiple times with a sledge hammer for them to “get it.” What part of the senseless, vicious slaughter of Travis Alexander can possibly be remediated by any spoken word?
I asked this the other day. Willmott is a salaried employee for the State. Nurmi left and went into private practice to get away from Jodi. He was not allowed to and makes around $300 an hour I believe. At this point the guessimate is around a million dollars for Nurmis work.
During the first trial, some of the people who are making a living off of this trial claimed that Nurmi rushed to set up a private practice so he would be paid at a higher fee than a court appointed lawyer.
I read that the racist thing that happened to Maria de la Rosa, who goes by the name of cougarlicious on one of her facebook/twitter accounts, was serenaded with the song La Cucaracha. Is anyone in the US, other than us on your site, out of middle school yet? I’m sure she is happy for the extra attention. Finally even Judge Stephens is saying let’s move this trial at a faster pace, but as you say it won’t because Arizona.
If that is really what was sung, the DT needs to get over themselves. MDLR has been super weird in this trial. There are actually more important things for the judge to worry about that Cougarlicious’ big fat feelers being hurt.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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TT, thank you.