This case drives me as crazy as the Casey Anthony trial did., Everybody knew she did it, what person in their right mind would NOT report their child missing after 30 days have gone by, Casey is a narcissistic liar, just as Jodi Arias is. Jodi killed him because he dumped her, he made plans to go to Mexico with another woman, she knew this, so yes she did plan to kill him once she got there, how could he possibly do something like this to her and get away with it? As a woman she thought once she saw him, he would want her, and yes he did unfortunately, but only for sex. He had no emotional ties to her, to him she was his little slut. She has lied over and over and over again, and I hope that she doesn't get acquitted like Casey Anthony did. Arias had so much anger in her after he used her again, that she slaughtered him, having sex with someone for personal pleasure is not a crime, but what she did to Travis Alexander is, and she should be convicted and put to death. Too bad the prosecution did such a bad job.

Thank you so much for this post, when all I read or see is how guilty Jodi is and calling for death, is it is a breath of fresh air to read your opinion. Women are most certainly different than men in how our minds work! But most important is that she should be able to tell all she can and the jury has a right to hear it all. After all they have somebody's life in their hands. Thank you for talking sense and maybe opening the eyes of others, who I agree should know better. A big thumbs up on your post

You brought a valid question, then...what other reason would Travis have to die...I say it was b/c his level in the pyramids surrounding them, no one gets out alive.

I agree with pretty much everything you are saying, but I don't get the part about it being liberals who want her to get the DP. I consider myself a liberal but I do not believe in the DP. Like you, I don't think the prosecution has proven pre-meditation. I hope the judge makes sure the jury understands that the defense does not have the burden of proof.

Another huge "Thank You" for a realistic blog post about this trial. I am so sick of the blood lusting crazies like "Maria" who are allowing mob mentality and media poisoning to make her case for murder one and the Dealth Penalty.

They have NOT proven her premeditated at all.

She has not been able to fairly portray her side of the story.
Any further trials and Juries have been POISONED by the media.
This *was* a serious trial about a serious crime.
It has been reduced to questions from the jury about KY JELLY - say what?

It has been allowed by the Arizona governement to become a media circus where the media has made millions, and the prosecutor is only out to grow his fame. Its laughable, unless you are paying the taxes in the State of Arizona.

...and Maria- she has already ADMITTED that she killed him, and will NOT walk away scott free.

I hope the "Law of Attraction" is true. I hope people like you Maria, pull to yourselves the exact same injustice that has gone on with this trial.

You make me sick. Have a great day at work blogging hate from a safe computer.

Again. thank you Vladimir for a realistic blog.

I believe Travis, as a mormon, and public speaker should have realized, when you are not ready to continue a relationship with a woman, the sex should stop, Obviously Jodi truly loved him. enough to kill Him.. Travis should have moved on... and not accept anymore free sex. Someone had to die with this sex addiction they had, it was way twisted and their escapades were increasing in levels. Tieing her to a tree, sex on a car,on a parkway, sex sex sex was he kidding... save these fantasies for your WIFE>>>>>not someones daughter.

I agree with all of the comments and feel so bad for Jodi. Whatever happened to the religious phrase about forgiveness. If you had shot someone in the head, stabbed him over 27 times and slit his throat (and maybe that happened while he was shaving himself anyway) wouldn't you also have a memory problem? I think she showed compassion by shooting him in the head before slicing him up first.

You people who refuse to look at the real facts make me sick. Anyone with half a brain could only conclude that Jodi is a socialpath and cold blooded murderer!

Dear Mr. Vladimir:
I like your words. I know what Fear of Abandonment is. I had an emotionally abuive childhood, two narcisstic parents, a mother who gave birth to me at 15. My parents divorced when I was 13 years old. I grew into being a pretty young lady and wanted "true love". I feared closeness with man because I might get pregnant. I protected mysely by staying a virgin. I attracted men but "shooed them away" the minute they tried to get intimate with
me. I feared intimacy but wanted love. I felt my body was very special and I wasn't going to let anyone know it until true love came along. As a result, many a dates "dumped me". Rejection was
the very feeling I never wanted with a man. As a result, I never allowed myself intimacy because I too, like Jodi Arias, couldn't face Fear of Abandonment.. Fortunately for me, I always said God took care of drunks, babies, and Liz. At age 23, I met a good man (who wasn't my Prince Charming) and I decided to marry him. At age 23, I still didn't know I was suffering "Fear of Abandonment". between us. Fortunately for me, life went on, we had two terrific sons and enjoyed our parenting years. At 25 years of marriage, my husband fell into a serious affair. When I found out, my personality went into a
serious rage and it was the most awful experience of my life. My husband, the man I chose, had "Abandoned Me". Those were some pretty awful times trying to patch things together. We stayed together and now it is 47 years of marriage. The pain never left me, but I have come to recognize myself by watching the Jodi Arias trial. Unfortunately, now that I know who and why I am, I am now 69. As they say in Spanish, asi es la vida.

You sound like an intelligent lawyer with great insight.
Sincerely, Elizabeth Zettle, Naples, Florida March 8, 2013

The prosecution isn't through yet. If Jodi's testimony is a house of cards rather than the truth, all it will take is the removal of 1 card for the whole house to fall. It's a seemingly small thing, but it appears that she lied about returning the 3rd gas can to Wal-Mart. Nothing was marked on the receipt to indicate a return, and if what Mr. Martinez alluded to about Wal-Mart not having any record of a returned can on that day is substantiated, her entire testimony becomes suspect (not that the juror questions don't indicate they think her story is a big stretch already without being caught outright in any lies). Add the fact that not a shred of porn or a single child's image was found on Travis' computer, and I can't imagine them not ultimately concluding she's a sociopathic liar guilty of premeditated 1st degree murder. The only question is whether they assign the death penalty or opt for mercy.

I dont think Jodi Arias is Innocent... mainly because she admits to killing Travis Alexander.

However the media is also Guilty.

Travis lying sick friends are obviously not innocent...or religious either. One of them is wearing Travis' clothing.... almost five years after he was murdered and was ADMONISHED not to talk about the trial and to stay away from the media... but has done the exact opposite on facebook and any TV show that will give his fat ass 3 seconds of fame to show off the inscription he wears in the dead guys suits. (Stalker anyone?) That would be DAVE HALL. Do check out his FB page.

Why was the Jury not sequestered?
Judge Sherry Stephens should lose her black robe over this travesty.
Instead of Jodi getting the time she probably knows she deserves, because face it people that girl is NOT going to die so get over it already, she is probably going to get a mistrial, or even better a way reduced sentence in the appeals process due to all of the evidence of mishandling information that is out there... IRONICALLY... due to the media.
Thanks HLN LOSERS!!

This has however been historical in the grand scheme of things. Almost on the OJ and Casey Anthony Level. Only handled way worse... way way worse. No sequestered Jury, Witnesses doing whatever they want. A Prosecutor who obviously has Tourettes or some other tic inducing problem.

There is no premeditation- at all.
There is also a lack of confirmed self defense.

Watch the entire trial and get all of the facts then move on and put your rage on something that deserves it.

I would also like to comment about the fact that so many of you people believe in every word that comes out of her mouth. You believe that Travis said and did a lot of things that cannot be proven. Obviously, none of you have been listening to any of their mutual friends and their statements. It is very unfortunate that she can get on the stand and make up whatever suits her agenda and there is no one that can dispute the facts. However, when there are MUTUAL friends that have come forth and mentioned things that had several witnesses, they can not be admitted. She is making a mockery of the battered/sexually abused person (yes, there are men out there too), and you people are allowing it to happen.

@Susan, Jodi's story taken as a whole is - fantastical from a self defense prospective - given the sequence of events that began with her grandparents gun coming up missing to Travis' death and beyond when she 'came to' in the desert. In light of that, and in light of her years long lengthy list of lies to overcome, it's imperative that she demonstrate absolute honesty to the jurors when answering their questions. If Mr. Martinez proves she lied to the jurors faces about returning that gas can, it's a HUGE problem for her. Of course he won't be able to do that until the rebuttal (next) phase of the trial, but his role in these proceedings is far from over.

Also, he will continue to have additional opportunities to cross examine her for as long as jurors keep submitting additional questions for her to answer.

im very upset with media ..this is america innocent until proven guilty,,,Dr.Drew especially 1 sided,, i believe something happened at that very moment and she snapped,,,,if if if it was planned Jodi could have just SHOT travis while he was sleep then left the house bottom line no mess to clean up,,no one deserves to be killed and travis was a user of sex with jodi,,,BUT it is the prosecutions case to prove ,,, and if martinez proved his case then the jury would not have had sooooo many questions,,,

Thank you for all the excellent comments. A few points though:

The government's obligation is prove premeditation in their case in chief, which they could not do under any circumstances. For all those saying "wait and see" the government prove murder it, considering the fact the prosecution case in chief closed weeks ago, that is a direct admission the prosecution did not carry its burden on that point.

Second, rage and mutilation (27 cuts) are not indications of planning, cool calculation, etc... Instead, they are clear indications of a crime of passion and spontaneity, maybe depraved murder two certainly not premeditated murder one.

Third, I find it very interesting how many tweets I have seen from people who "know" for a fact that Jodi Arias lied about shooting Mr. Alexander first because it directly contradicts the punitively "scientific" medical examiner testimony. How many of those same people know that is exactly what Det. Flores said first, Mr. Alexander was shot before being stabbed.

And how many of those same people who fully support the idea scientific evidence is sufficient to condemn Ms. Arias to death, but at the same time, think evolution is a hoax and God created man in 7 days?

It only takes 1 person on that jury to question premeditation,,I HOPE That 1 person stays strong in what they believe

Mr. Gagic, Jodi's grandparents .25 caliber gun was 'stolen' shortly before Jodi's trip, Jodi rents the car for that trip far from her home, she meticulously plans that trip resulting in no Arizona paper or surveillance trail, she claims Travis brutally attacked her for dropping a camera when he didn't even get angry after she ruined his BMW, claims she blanked out for the duration of her savage attack on him and while tampering with the crime scene, then disposed of evidence and drove directly to a new love interest's house and acted in a sexually provocative manner (which of course should not be construed as attempting to create an alternate location alibi).

I disagree about rage not indicating planning. A jilted lover murdering in a jealous rage takes planning precisely because she's now an ex-girlfriend who needed to drive a long distance to reach him.

re: Did she shoot him first or not.. She's a PROVEN pathological liar and the coroner a trained, experienced professional. That speaks for itself.

Pre-medtation has not been proven. If I was on the jury I would aquit. I would want to suggest some serious counseling for Jodi so she could learn to never get in such an abusive situation again.

Pre-meditation can be formed in an instant. When she pulled his back and sliced his throat from ear to ear thats enough for any jury comprised of human beings.

Excuse me... I just re-read testimony and may be wrong about Jodi saying she shot him in the bedroom, sorry.

But the casing was found ON TOP of congealed blood, indicating that the shooting occurred after Travis was bleeding which could only have been caused by the knife.

Finally a diplimatic diolog : First i would just like to comment on Flores' investigating report. It seems as tho the room mates inconsistencys to what they said,about one doing laundry,the fact that one said they didn't really hang-out,know eachother.The shoe print,when Jodi had socks on.And how could anybody take pictures and commit such a thing.Did the camera take pics by its self?Drag a dead weight body(excuse the expression),and take pics at the same time. It seems to me that Jodi is answerering these questions from memories after the incident,from what she's seen and been told. I do believe that TA's guilt and the need for her compliance to his seuaxl needs took over him like a raging demon.And if she wouldn't have killed him,then he probably would have (defused),or could have raped her violently in that bathroom.Thats what i believe would have happened if she wouldn't have done what she did.But still confused about all the evidence.

I'm a bit surprised there is such a negative view of Jodi in the press. She is, even by her own admission, guilty of killing Travis Alexander. But the simple definitions often cited in which killing another person could be understandable do not work to understand what happened here. Jodi loved that guy very much, but he took advantage of it, involving her in a very passionate relationship which would suggest very deep trust between the two of them. But then Travis dumped her, which was a tremendous betrayal of that trust which Jodi came to feel existed between them. The jury is looking only for evidence of 'temporary insanity' during the time the actual assault took place, but I suggest that she was not in a healthy state of mind for a period a lot longer than that-for months leading up to the day of his death, and probably, even now as she is on trial. Will the jury eventually understand this? I hope so...That woman does not belong in jail.

I would be inclined to agree that the state has not proven premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt.

However, what she did was not done in self-defense nor is it the result of "battered woman syndrome". I believe she went to AZ with the intent of trying to win back Travis Alexander with the one thing she had in her arsenal - her body and her willingness to indulge his sexual fantasies.

It is not for the jury to judge Travis Alexander. He can't speak for himself. The person speaking for him is on trial for his murder and it's clear that much of what she has shared about the man she knew was intended to paint him in a negative light. As if sharing sexual fantasies with a willing partner is some form of "perversion". Men and women have sexual fantasies and there are reasons why they aren't shared with the world at large - they're private. In a relationship of mutual trust he should have felt free to share his sexual thoughts with her and based on the evidence presented, there was no indication that she didn't enjoy them as much as he did.

Did she go along with them out of fear that he would harm her? No. She went along with them because either she enjoyed them or she would've accepted anything to keep her relationship with him. I believe she was telling the truth when she said she was in love with him. Unfortunately, like a lot of young women, she thought indulging his sexual appetites would be the key to keeping him. Obviously, it wasn't enough, and I think on some level she was angry and frustrated about that.

The big question is did she intend to kill him before she left California? I've seen and heard nothing that really answers that question without a reasonable doubt. Even if she staged the robbery at her grandparents' home to take possession of a handgun, what did she intend to do with it? It could be reasonably argued that she wanted it for protection on her long solo drive to see Travis. Likewise with the gas cans. There are long stretches of nothing in that part of the country, so a young woman driving alone being prepared for the possibility of running out of gas in the middle of nowhere is credible, even if it isn't the truth. As long as there is another plausible explanation, there is reasonable doubt.

However, there is NO doubt that she killed Travis Alexander. She admitted it. The physical evidence also removes any reasonable doubt that her actions were fueled by rage, not fear. The number and the location of stab wounds, defensive woulds and the throat slitting make it impossible to see it as anything other than unbridled rage.

Her convenient memory lapses about the subsequent stabbing (despite having a nearly photographic memory of everything else) are a pretty clear indication that recounting the stabbing would do nothing to support her "self-defense" claim so she says she "doesn't remember" it. Remembering it would mean she'd have to explain it, and for a woman with all the answers, she can't come up with one that supports the image of herself she has created: the victim.

Something happened that day. Travis either said or did something that made her violently angry. I also think that there was a conversation going on during that photo session in the shower. The closeup of Alexander's face conveys a look of fear or confusion. Was she talking to him while snapping the photos? Was she holding the gun? What was being said as those photos were taken? Did it start out as a "game" then turned deadly? There are many more questions than answers concerning Travis Alexander's final moments. The woman with so much to say about everything up to that point is curiously silent about them.

Arias will be found guilty. She will not be acquitted, there's too much physical evidence and her own confession to the killing. (Casey Anthony never admitted to anything and there was no definitive cause of death for little Caylee, big difference.) If there is justice, Ms. Arias will spend the rest of her natural life behind bars, and relegated to obscurity.

It saddens me that there are people who believe every word she has said simply because she's physically attractive. Monsters don't always look like monsters.

"But the main reason, I suspect, is feminism's misguided campaign to biologically and psychologically equate men and women. In other words, despite all the evidence to the contrary, radical feminist want us to believe that men and women have the exact same motivation to murder."

I'd like to point out that radical feminists absolutely DO NOT believe that men and women are equal in anything except for being members of the human race. It is Liberal Feminists who promote equality rhetoric and yet most of even those in that camp would not claim that a woman would murder a man because of "sexual jealousy".

Yep, blame feminists for misogyny. Nothing new there, Mr. Gagic.

i have a question,,,,,,IF jodi does NOT get the dp,,,,,,who decides on life in prison or 10-20yrs.???

As the old adage goes, "if it walks like a duck......."

I cannot believe, running across this website, that there are people believing Arias is innocent. You have given her a pass over her lack of credibility, arguing, "As far as whether her testimony is believable, she was not untruthful in the sense she was deliberately testifying falsely."

What kind of gobbledegook is that? What, she thought that she was never in Arizona at the time of the killing so that means she was being truthful. So then she thought two ninja warriors had killed Alexander so in her own mind that was truthful? Confronted with all the forensic evidence she now claims she shot Alexander in self-defense and then entered the Twilight Zone that she didn't come out of until mid-kiss in Utah? She was not in the process of "testifying falsely" or does truth only count when a person is under oath and sitting on a witness stand.

Premediation is determined by the facts at trial. Why did she need to rent a car, buy extra gas cans so she would not have to stop for fuel in Arizona, shut off her cellphone pinging cellphone before going into Arizona, and not turn it on again until out of Arizona? What is the probability of shooting a person with a 25 caliber gun and coincidentally your Grandpa's is burglarized of one while you are living there? Why did she not let family and friends know she was heading to Arizona to visit nor tell family and friends that she had been there?

On leaving the Twilight Zone, you know you shot someone you claimed you love unconditionally, are covered in blood and don't call 911 or him to check on his condition?

Jodi not only walks like a "duck", she is a lying self-serving murderous duck.

Dude, learn how to edit your blogs. It is like reading one long sentence.

A great post as usual, SJ!

You know, they actually haven't even proved she killed him. Jodi accidentally shot him once, but that didn't kill him, and I don't believe she slashed his throat, stabbed him? She might have had to, but slashing his throat, no. However, Jodi is taking the blame; I wonder how many times she has taken the blame for things she didn't do?
Jodi can't remember as it was so traumatic, as it would be for anyone, and as for moving his body into that tiny shower space, no. She would have been in total shock and most likely her legs would have gone to jelly; I just can't see she did this at all--pre-meditated murder, yes, but not what happened, it must have been absolutely terrifying.
All some people see is the way she is now; she isn't the same person as she was then; she was only 28 and sees things differently now; as Jodi said, she's grown a backbone.

I didn't see the video, but heard that TA's room-mate changed his story 3 times for June 4th.. something not quite right about that, also there were 5 days before TA was officially found; who knows what happened during that time?

Jodi is saying she killed him because she thinks she must have done and is ashamed that he had those dreadful wounds, but, did she really? Or was she set up? TA's friends didn't like her, they had a motive.. TA's friends and possibly room-mate were Mormon.. what if they knew about his paedophilia ?

And lastly, Jodi may be shielding someone, someone may have threatened her family, who knows, for I honestly don't believe that someone as emotional as Jodi could slash someone's throat. I really don't.

I've watched the entire trial and she's lucky I'm not on the jury. Premeditated jealous rage. She did every sex act known to man and it did not sway Travis from his plans to take another woman to Cancun. That's my opinion. I actually had a completely open mind when the trial began but the more she has talked the more she convinced me of her guilt and that self defense was not a factor whatsoever.

District Attorney Juan Martinez had an easy case that he turned into a DOG & PONY Show, why because he sucks. Unprepared all over the place you hear silly people state he has a Good reputation. He was handed that Death Penalty case the woman who killed her Husband in a wheel chair my 2 year old could have won that case. Nurmi has NADA to work with and he is doing great. Martinez has THEE whole Media on his side a bunch of Loony Tune MOONIES I am sorry I mean (can't tell the difference) Mormons appearing Nightly on various shows trashing Jodi Arias. To me they all are a CULT sorry that is my opinion. Their blank stare speaks volumes about their Religion. The ones appearing nightly on Dr.Drew ,Nancy Disgrace and That Jane lady are just the FREAKIEST, Perhaps this Cult has something to do with this tragedy. But The media is so Bias it will backfire. No evidence to support DP. That is a fact. Loved stupid Martinez Walmart BLUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! anonymous you are so on point ,,have you seen the mormon couples ,,two different couples on HLN shows the way the mormon wives are holding their husbands hands ,,talk about take control,,,if travis kept this SEX secret ,imagine the others in the mormon religion

I don't get how this trial keeps on an on with evidence being so clear. Of course Jodi is going to lie. She is trying to save her life. For her is better to lie and see what she can get away with it than say the truth and get the DP. Duh! I see the pictures, a man in the shower then 2 minutes later the man is dead in the shower with 27 stabs wounds, slit throat and shot in the head. The killer admitted she did it. No more questions to the witness. Case closed. Life in prison will be enough for her. DP is optional.

@MSA: Totally agree with you!! We would have her verdict in less than an hour.

It is my belief that Jodi's premeditation and blatant lying started that weekend in Sept 2006 when she met Travis. She decided then she was going to have Travis by any means necessary (sex). She returned home to her live-in boyfriend, told him "no sex because she was saving herself for marriage" YET 5 or 6 days later she was engaging in sexual activity with Travis. She did everything willfully and necessary, sexually, and she still could not hold on to Travis. June 4, 2008 was the result of her definite confirmation and sad realization that ALL her efforts had failed. If she couldn't have him, he surely wasn't going to Cancun with anyone else, he surely wasn't worthy of living.

Jodi's statement: "if I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty". She has confessed to the murder....but she surely has not been begging...still hoping to hear the truth and nothing but the truth.

I think you are as looney as she is. For one, she didn't try to plead 2nd degree, she asked for Manslaughter and 15 years. That's ludicrist! And she is a pathological, compulsive proven (over and over) liar and butcher! So you and your bleeding heart liberals who don't think a murderer should die for his or HER heinous crimes may, I hope, rest easy and pray she doesn't move in next door to you if she's released, or date your son, grandson, nephew, father...

Also, not everybody agrees with bleeding heart liberals or even science for that matter. Here's praying there are none like you on the jury.

At the onset of this trial, if she had just said "yes I killed him. Yes it was in a jealous rage. No it was not premeditated. I was covering my tracks so it didn't seem I was ever in AZ, but not so I could kill someone, so my new boyfriend couldn't snoop and see I was still booty calling my ex. It just so happened that at Travis' house I went into a rage over his new girlfriend and I thought ' I'll show him and noone will ever know I was here'". But she didn't say that, and she'll get the death penalty; not because of any staggering evidence (although there is plenty) but because she spent two weeks filling the jury's ears with nonsense and the last few days she's proven you can't believe any of it. And I don't care how you look at it this trial it boils down to do you believe the defense's account of events or the prosecution's ? And she made damn sure the defense was laughable! She should have states the hell off the stand like Ms Anthony.

you can babble on and on about reasonable doubt. common sense will give her the needle. no big words needed.

I am praying for you Ryan. May God give you acceptance of the truth. May the peace that God offers set you free. Blessings to you.

Jodi's orgasm on the phone sex tape---was it real or did she fake it to keep Travis turned on and interested in her? Any opinions?

It's hard to believe that an intelligent person could believe JA stories. I wonder what motivates the people who chose to overlook all of the evidence. Regarding the comment about smelling blood, I don't think that cry's for justice mean people are out for blood! Do these people think we should just let murders go unpunished?

You are a idiot!!!!😱😱and anyone that supports this evil person is also an idiot. I pray none of you people live near me

@Chris, my take:

Evil that succeeds in it's designs often does so by disguising itself as an angel of light. Psychopaths wear the mask of sanity; they don't look like sociopaths or act like deranged killers. Jodi is duping some people via her personal attractiveness, verbal intelligence, and acting ability.

Another thought: As many as 5 percent of people display psychopathic or sociopathic personality disorders, but not all morph into criminals. I think it's possible a number instinctively perceive something of themselves in Jodi and thus feel an affinity for her.

Im gonna go somewhere in the middle here. I think those that are taking her apparent lies at face value are delusional at best. I also think those to the other extreme are forgetting the unknown variables in human behavior and ,dare I say, physics.

There are two people that know exactly what happened on June 4th, 2008. One will be taking the truth to her grave and the other already has. That being said, there are some theories that can easily be arrived at here. But theories are just that, theories. They do not remove doubt, reasonable or otherwise.

It is hard to fathom anyone mutilating another human being, the way TA was, out of fear. In most circumstances and for most rational humans, you would do what it takes to stop your attacker and then run like hell. A bullet to the face would normally accomplish that initial stop. But again, this is a theory with no definitive proof. The ME can theorize based on experience that this in fact was the case, but no one can be certain. There have been many cases in the past where an initial injury should have incapacitated a person but did not. His fight or flight instinct could have kicked in at that point. However, even taking that 'doubt' into mind, I again come back to finding it unbelievable that 27 stab wounds and a near decapitation were necessary to or even fueled by her fear instinct. Common sense leads to the motivation being rage, and it is very difficult to prove otherwise.

Then there is her memory of events, or lack thereof. I was attacked by about 5 other individuals in my teens. I can tell you, it was traumatic and I literally, even an hour later, remembered very little of the event even though I was never knocked unconscious and in fact did escape relatively unscathed. It was, as Jodi puts it, a fog. From experience, I believe you can be "blinded by fear" but I also believe you can go into a blind rage. Can we say definitively that this is what happened to Ms. Arias? No, but it is a possibility. Nor can we say which end of that blind spectrum she was in if she was in it at all. She could also be conveniently "forgetting" events that do not meld with her self-defense story.

That same experience also tells me that, if motivated by fear, escape is the ultimate goal. But I cannot make the mistake most of us make in assigning my values, experiences or motives to another person. We cannot know or prove her mind. The evidence suggests that escape was very possible, yet not really attempted by Ms. Arias. Instead she remained in the situation to "finish the job" the bullet to the face did not. Even if the bullet did not stop TA, at least a couple of the stab wounds would have. Of that I have no doubt. Hence, once again we are led to the conclusion that this was an act of rage and not fear.

But what about the shell casing that was found laying on top of the blood? Doesn't that prove he was already bleeding before he was shot? No one can say with 100% certainty how the casing arrived where it lay. In what was almost certainly a chaotic event, it could have been kicked there... who knows. It falls under the unknowns of physics.

My point here is that without a full blown admission by JA, there is no way to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what happened. Although we do not know the jurors' minds, we have to believe that there are doubts per se. So it is purely going to come down to which doubts, those of JA or those of the evidence, weigh stronger on their minds.

Some have said that the 100 questions provided by the jury, prove they are not buying her story in the least. I think its quite the contrary. If they weren't buying it, or at least entertaining the notion of its validity, why even ask for the clarifications they have asked for.

In the end, yes, there is the rule of law. Yes, there is the admonition given to the jury. There is the fact, that there must be a preponderance of evidence and lack of reasonable doubt. But in the end these jurors are human and with that comes the fallibility of the human mind. Ultimately they will assign their beliefs and/or values to the case and the circumstances surrounding it. So who has had a bigger impact on those intangibles? Mr. Martinez or Mr. Nurmi. Only time will tell. In a few weeks we will find out if the jury thinks she is guilty of pre-meditated murder, but may never undeniably know whether or not she was.

It is great to hear someone getting to the legal nexus of this case. So much media speculation is based on pseudo scientific guesswork -- on the defendant's body language, how it shows she is lying, or the significance of voice pattern changes, etc. To me, it is natural for someone to be more confident and poised if questioned by their own lawyer than when under hostile interrogation by the prosecutor. An honest viewer may simply see in this how a human being behaves when under extreme stress. It is not necessarily an index of malice aforethought. In my view, Jodi has been remarkably clear in many of her answers. This does not mean I believe she is telling the truth at all times, but she does seem consistent in trying to do so. And in any case, she is not on trial for lying but for the possible pre-meditation of a deplorable and venal action in taking the life of another human being. Her story is jumbled and not always logical, but she is describing moments of absolute terror that would or could create serious mental disconnect, if only temporary, in anyone. Whether or not the killing occurred as described by her, enough of her narrative adds up to a sense of reaction -- of someone caught up in extreme circumstances -- rather than a cold-blooded plan. At least, that is how it comes through to me. And again, the media mistakes in equating lying, a common human failing, with first degree murderous intent, hardly the same sin. This ongoing commentary does not credit the democratic process of innocent until 'proven..' etc.

I was thankful for this blog. I have been inbetween on feelings on this case for some time, but I am not a bloodhound looking for someone's head, either. I am trying to be very objective in my feelings, as of course, we are talking about the taking of someone's else life. On the one hand, I have felt it was premeditated; on the other hand, not premeditated. But, the more I think about it, the more I listen, read, and evaluate, I have come to the conclusion there is no real DIRECT EVIDENCE toward pre-meditation. All this stuff with the gas cans, lies in the beginning, lack of memory, sex tapes, text message, etc., etc., none of it proves pre-meditation. That doesn't in any way make me feel Ms. Arias is innocent; she is dead guilty, and I believe she should AT LEAST spend the rest of her pitiful days in jail without parole. But...they have not proven pre-meditation. There is NO DIRECT EVIDENCE imo that points to that. Some things just don't add up to make me feel it was outright premeditation. I feel for Travis's family so much; however, I am angry at Travis for being such a creep, also. He should have cut it off with Jodi a long time ago, immediately after they broke up the first time and not let her in his life again after that. This sex addiction took its toll on both families, and it breaks my heart. My heart goes out to all of them.

Wanted to make several more comments to yr comments on radio show:

1. If, like u say, you think the jurors would WANT to hear Jodi directly be able to respond to the questions about why she took the gas cans (the thing you think is evil for JM not to ask and use in closing) then why in the 200+ questions, No Juror asked that question?

2. Martinez DOES have a dog in the fight. He is supposed to fight on behalf of the victim and the victim's family for justice.

3. You have said various times "She may have lied.." Really?

4. You say that she has not presented like a sociopath because if she truly were -she would have been much better at her lies and conformed her testimony to MATCH forensic evidence, like gun shot last". My answer: Being a sociopath does not mean you have to be a genius. Many sociopaths, confirmed sociopaths HAVE made stupid mistakes. Question: What criminal out there are u convinced IS a sociopath? Plus, IF she were to say she shot him last, there would be no way around the cruelty aspects of this case and it would still lead to DP. What she is trying to get out of.

5. I am so tired hearing about this business that if she had premeditated this she would have shot first. That is so overly simplified that its ridiculous. The Jodi Arias that hs presented itself has been extremely manipulative. I can see more than anything, her going there with intent to change his mind, giving him one more shot (after all I do believe she was still obsessed w/ him and wanted him..no woman does what she did without obsession being involved. And NO I don't put the blame on Travis for that. At a certain point, when does ANYTHING become Jodi Arias' responsibility?) Though I DO agree with you that a crime of passion is also true. But a crime of passion CAN also be premeditated. Even if it were 1 minute before the attack she decided to kill him. To much other circumstantial evidence leads us to she planned on hurting him. Maybe initially it was blackmail, but I think in the back of her head killing him was on her mind. The gun missing from grandparents and nothing else far too suspicious and convenient. Not to mention, why would she ever have told the rental car guy she was planning on using the rental car for LOCAL errands, NOT a long road trip. Notice NURMI never said anything at all about THAT. He wants the jury to FORGET about it Vlad.

6. You kept repeating defense has zero responsibility of burden of proof. Technically of course that is absolutely true. But lets face it, they would never have put Jodi up on the stand if they did not know that the jury is EXPECTING them to prove she had good reason for slaughtering him. There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence from the state. And the reality is while you keep distinguishing circumstantial from direct evidence. This jury will use common sense. The defense also knew they have zero corroborating evidence of all the vile things Jodi with her attorney is saying about Travis. IMO, they seriously underestimated just how angry the dragging Travis thru the mud was going to make this jury.

7. You say that you find it hard to believe that if Jodi had really started planning murder in May that she would have NOT told someone. Really? You think that would be something that most people WOULD do? "Hey sis, Travis has hurt me so badly, I have decided that I am going to give him one last chance to be with me and if he tells me NO, well, I am going to KILL him". Yeah. That sounds reasonable Vlad.

8. The forensics. Gun shot first or last? You say it is more believeable her "word" that the gun shot was first. A woman who has been shown to be a pathological liar, you believe over a medical examiner with 6000 autopsies under his belt. You bring up Flores commentary of the news shows with his statement that gun shot was first. So, you think it more likely that SHE is finally telling the truth, despite this story again helps in her defense, over the idea that Flores just got it wrong? I believe that is crazy. I watched the ME's testimony and found him highly credible. I think Flores was just speaking out about something he really should not have becs he was just stating his opinion at the time. He is NOT an ME. And did you catch the portion in which when JM re-directed Flores he brought up the fact that in an earlier defense interview this sequencing question was asked but that One of the defense attorneys present at interview objected on the GROUNDS that Flores was NOT a medical examiner and did NOT have the expertise. I do not believe that this ME ever thought the gun shot came first. This was a mistake Flores made that the defense is trying to milk for every drop of blood possible and anyone with common sense can see what happened. FLORES spoke out of turn, (NOT for the ME) and was MISTAKEN. That simple.

9. Finally, the "convenience" of the FOG. Travis murder was beyond horrific. If Jodi Arias were required to testify (and did not use the FOG story) about the stabbing and the throat slitting, there is NO way, looking at the defensive wounds on Travis and the absolute lack of injuries (I dont care what she says about these magical and mysterious injuries she CLAIMS are there on her body or were there OR that nobody again saw)on her, she could come up with a story that could in anyway justify the slaughter she did or that would match up to self defense since she would be asked all kinds of minute detailed questions as to where she was standing, he was standing etc. She knows it, her attys know it. No way would any story match up. So they were forced to try the best option they could come up with and imo the attys know how remote the possibility is that it will be believed. I find it so completely incomprehensible that her FOG comes in to play during times of critical issue surrounding her charges and yet disappears completely during times of critical issue to her defense. If one is to believe her story, one must buy into the idea that Arias is the LUCKIEST woman on the planet and yet also the UNLUCKIEST woman on the planet. And if she were "body slammed" by Travis, NO WAY she would get up immediately and start running. She claims she was in the FOG after the gun shot and all throughout the stabbing and didnt regain real consciousness until driving and stopping in desert. We are asked to believe that she was in the FOG whilst going about Travis' home trying to desperately to cover up her tracks and clean up the crime scene.

I agree wholeheartedly with what YOU said about had she really been in a life and death struggle and came out the victor in a self defense scenario, NONE of her actions, reactions, emotions, match up with what we KNOW women who find themselves in those scenarios in real life do. If they are in horror, denial, memory FOG, they are not simultaneously ALSO thinking about covering their tracks. Not to mention the LUDICROUS idea she wants people to believe that she was during this foggy time period simultaneously ALSO worried about Travis' reputation. The self serving motivations of this witness are so blatantly on display that it boggles the mind how some on here are so willing to ignore them. Or even more crazy, like one of your first callers, try to put the blame on the roommates and even some Mormon Mafia Conspiracy some of these nut jobs like to come up with. Yes, anything to protect pretty pretty Jodi. Ugh.

Again Vlad, you sound like a nice guy and I am also usually against the DP. While I prefer Life without Parole, I would not be angry if she did get sentenced with the DP. Her continued slaughtering of Travis and his reputation has really made me feel a hate that I don't think I have ever felt before. I have brothers and a son, so that may be part of it. She is evil and very scarey and should never ever be released again to do damage.

Gotta follow up on Observer's comment about pedophilia.

I also have noticed one glaring problem with some of Jodi's claims about Travis and pedophilia. I wonder, did her attorneys NOT do research on this subject?Did they not consult with psychologists or professionals that KNOW about pedophilia? Probably not. Big mistake.

Aside from the fact there is once again no independant corroboration backing up this vile commentary by Jodi and Kirk Nurmi ...the claims about pedophilia are preposterous and Jodi Arias herself in testimony articulates exactly why its preposterous.

(FYI Jodi uses her ATTORNEY to play bad cop here because part of her SCRIPT requires needing to show this push and pull balance of Jodi even to this DAY after all the "horrors" and tears she claimed Travis perpetrated on her, she MUST look to be STILL protecting Travis and loving him DESPITE everything-Playing her role as convincingly as a person like her is capable- IMO, its a poor performance and the strategy and motivation is obvious)

Pedophiles are ONLY attracted to children. Not GROWN adult women. Even IF theyre "pretending to be 12 years old" Jodi. Pedophiles can be married and may have a wife as a beard, but they are defintely not having sex with their wives. That would be a physical impossibility. Adult women are not stimulating to pedophiles. Jodi's own testimony has shown us that Travis and Jodi were having extremely enthusiastic sexcapades. If Travis were a pedophile, this would simply be a physical impossibility. I am sure that on cross, JM will bring an expert witness who understands pedophilia and ask that witness whether the information presented thus far could reasonably be expected to be seen in a pedophile. I feel confident this matter can be put to bed very fast, very easily and once again the jury will be left to wonder what else is Jodi Arias lying about.

Is this author serious? Just the overkill alone is proof...she didn't stave his attack..which of course he never did, she destroyed him. She had other options and by her own admission got away unscaved. I wonder if Travis was your son or brother his you would interpret the facts. The fact of Travis injuries and the Fact that he is dead is sufficient to me. You are way off base buddy.

Steve57...Jodi is no O.J. and Az is not Hollywood.

For those who still believe Jodi's bullcrap, look at this:

Taylor Searle posted this on the Travis Facebook :

For the benefit of Travis’s friends, I am going to explain a few things:
1) Why Jodi fired her attorneys
2) What her current position is, and how she defends is

Jodi’s defense was electronically sent some letters in Travis’s handwriting that were claimed to have been written by Travis to Jodi. These letters were analyzed by experts for the prosecution and the defense. Both parties concluded that thes...e letters were forged to look like they were in Travis’s handwriting.

Jodi felt that these letters were necessary to her defense, but her lawyers, knowing they were forgeries, were not going to use them as evidence. It was for this reason that she fired her attorneys, so that she could try to force the use of the letters in her defense. The judge ruled however, that they were not going to be allowed as evidence.

Jodi has reinstated her defense counsel now that she has lost the letter dispute.

Her current story:
Jodi claims that she did kill Travis. She claims that she had to kill him because he was evil, and had admitted to her that he was a pedophile. She also claims that he was physically abusive to her. In her mind, Jodi’s defense is that she was doing the right thing, because Travis was a monster. The forged letters were her only “proof” of this defense.

At this point, without the fake letters allowed as evidence, it is unclear how she might try to paint the picture that she “had” to kill Travis, but there is no doubt that she will try.See More

Some of this we had already surmised. What interests me is that the forged letters, according to this account, were sent electronically to Jodi's defense, which is especially odd since they were handwritten and had been sent to Jodi. This might indicate the sending the letters themselves might have made it even more apparent that they were concocted. And it might also indicate that Jodi was attempting to distance herself from the letters if they were revealed as forgeries.

So is anyone here really surprised? Sounds like a trapped rat. Did anyone ever come face to face with one??

What a lying, horrible person. She went through the trouble of forging ten letters in Travis' handwriting to try to save her own ass.

Cate E. your post is very well stated. On #8 the Forensics....I think it is so interesting how all along with each added scenario of what happened Jodi tailored her story to the evidence and oops! since Flores stated the gun shot came 1st...so did Jodi in her final lies attempting to make her last lie of self defense fit what she thought the forensic evidence would say. with her story of the ninjas she said they shot first.

Who says after they butcher someone in cold blood, "Oh crap, I think I did something really bad!" Oh crap! What? Who says that in that circumstance? Notice in her first testimony when she found herself driving in the desert and she was stating her thoughts...NOT ONE thought was about poor Travis. NOT ONE thought of remorse for murdering her "lover" in cold blood. It was all about Jodi.

Vlad has some way off opinions of this court proceeding IMO. Jodi has stated over and over her supposed reason for taking the gas cans...so to be fair Mr. Martinez has to ask her if she took them so no one would know she was in AZ???? I think one needs to be real here. This is not a fairy tale. It is the real world. It is surprising to me that an atty would think like that.

As far as a pedophile not also being heterosexual I disagree. I know someone who had pedophilia tendencies toward boys that he rarely acted on but was married 3 times and had children of his own. Also an acquaintance of mine, her 2nd husband was in jail for sexually abusing her young teenage daughter. Jail is a very dangerous place for pedophiles ...the inmates have their own justice for pedophiles, and those who murder children.

Statistics show that True pedophiles are NEVER rehabilitated. If Travis really had those tendencies and Jodi was really concerned and wanted to help him then was there any searches on her computer about helping a pedophile? I doubt it seriously. She said she had pamphlets but where did she get them and how did she know where to get them? I can't recall the details of that testimony from her...just that she gave/sent him pamphlets twice.

Also j. Martinez has not yet followed up on the 'secret" messages in the magazines from Jodi to Matt. Matt told her atty. that Jodi told him that she caught Travis masterb. to pic's of boys on his computer in his office. Oops again! Caught in another lie by the physical evidence on Travis' computer showing no such site ever visited. She needed Matt to testify differently to support her fake story and she wanted him to come see her in jail ASAP. This is why J.M. keeps bringing up Matt being someone who would "never betray" her as she says. Part of her testimony about self defense is that He supposedly attacked her in the past when she threatened to expose his pedophilia to the church bishop so he could get help. So proving Travis had no pedophile tendencies goes to supporting no battered women's syndrome in this case. Just more lies on top of lies.

How can being B/F and G/F for only 5 months with these few incidents that she states where Travis supposedly abused her (if it were true) can count for battered women's syndrome? The rest of the less than 2 years time they knew each other they lived in separate cities. Sorry, that is just a huge stretch IMO. He wasn't stalking her. Interesting that in 10% of stalking cases the stalker murders their victim. That is why psychologists advises the victims of stalking to move to another state when they are being stalked...1 in 10 die at the hands of their stalkers.

I have not missed one day of this trial.....ANYONE who believes Jodi is a complete idiot!!! She is the lowest form of a human being. How dare she try and use the "trash Travis" defense.. Despicable, sick
Jodi should get what she deserves. My heart goes out to Travis' family to have to even listen to such lies! If she walks our justice system will have completely failed.

@Cate Ellington, very astute point you made about Mr. Martinez's prosecutorial style. Whatever the complaints against it, he has caused Jodi to demonstrate that contrary to her claims, she doesn't turn into a shrinking violet when confronted by an aggressive male - far from it.

@Pachoo, would you happen to know if the Travis letters that Jodi forged can and will be introduced into evidence?

Cate E and phoenix, I noticed that the first day Jodi was cross examined by Martinez. She held her own with Martinez...which will definitely work against her with the jury on her supposed battered women's syndrome. She obviously doesn't take any stuff off of anyone male or female, thus her long history of confronting those she thinks are cheating on her ("abusing" her). She seemed so pleased with herself too with all her "smart" come backs against Martinez. LOL! She has a great vocabulary but is so delusional that she is her own absolute worst enemy. Classic case of why you don't put your client on the stand.

I once saw a psychologist interviewed on how he counsels his clients if they are being stalked. He stated that 10% of stalking victims are murdered by their stalkers, so therefore he strongly advises anyone being stalked to leave the state and not let anyone know their new location. they have a 1 in 10 chance of being murdered. don't like those chances. Too bad Travis didn't get that message and became a 1 in 10.

I have a friend who is being stalked and has moved 2 times to different states trying to get away from her stalker. If he stalks her one more time by finding her now he will go to jail, hopefully not for murder...YIKES. Stalking is a severe and dangerous crime. Can't understand why Jodi's stalking Travis has not been allowed in detail into this proceeding. The statistics are really sad for those being stalked.

Maybe the prosecution has an expert witness to testify on stalking behavior as well, since the 911 call talks about stalking.

I believe the only item needed by the prosecution to prove premeditation beyond a REASONABLE doubt is the 2 minute time line from the pictures on Travis' camera. His vulnerable position shown sitting in the shower where she obviously stabbed him in the chest first, surprising him and incapacitating him but not enough to keep him attempting to defend himself from the flailing hand/knife of Arias' repeatedly stabbing him (his defensive wounds on his hands and shoulders) while sitting in the shower...and then he was able to move from the shower to the sink where she was stabbing him in the back and head, then he was able to move and support himself next to the linen closet and from there attempt to get away moving down the hallway towards the bedroom, collapsing on the carpet in the bedroom. And two minutes later the picture where she had already slit his throat and was dragging him back towards the shower as a wild animal drags their prey claiming victory.

That is how a 120 pound woman murders a viral strong 200 lb wrestler who has been working out and running and keeping himself in shape without a single evidence to her body that she has been supposedly defending herself and killed in "self defense". No doubt in my mind and for anyone who possesses common sense and reasonable logic it has been proven beyond a REASONABLE doubt...IMO.

All the other evidence brought into this case by the prosecution is just adding to the PREPONDERANCE of the evidence against this stalker, Jodi Arias.

Rita, no fingerprint evidence on the bullet casing was found in the lab. She could have picked it up with the towel she washed in an attempt to remove it from the scene. This is simply speculation on my part.

She probably brought the gun just in case one of his room mates came home when she was in the act of murdering with the knife and needed to take them out as well. But the stab to the heart didn't take him out quick enough and she had to keep stabbing him cause he kept trying to protect himself and was moving outside the shower...her best laid plan didn't work out so well.

By her own testimony it was her idea to take pictures of him in the shower and she had to talk him into it. She waited around most of the day to get him into the shower after their sexcapades episode and when he made no move to go take a shower on his own she coaxed him upstairs on the ridiculous pretext of getting images of his new improved body physique since he had lost 30 lbs. Only then could she hope to have the advantage of surprise and him being incapacitated on the floor of the shower when she attacked him.

Remember she was already packed with her stuff in the car and ready to go when she got him back upstairs to take a shower....ready to make her quick get away. Cold and calculated murder...no reasonable doubting here. It is just so bizarre and creepy how she lured him into the shower so she could take him out.

To the author, do you know if the jury is provided a copy of the police report? I think the jury should be privy to the fact that the roommates changed their stories. Two referenced seeing Travis on the 5th ( one in the one in the morning passing in the house and one claims to have seen him on the confrerence call that Chris Hughes confirmed he never called in for. This was 6pm). Clearly they couldnt have seen him considering he was already deceased. One of the 2 I mentioned also changed the date he did his laundry that week several times, You hear of police leading whitenesses on their statements all the time to fit the facts. One of the roomate's girlfriends agreed to care for Travis's dog yet they claim they thought he left for the trip early? Why wouldn't TA change the dates with a dog sitter if that was the case? Most alarming is the fact that none of the roomate's or their girlfriends smelled his decomposing body nor investigated the smell if they for 5 days !! Both the police and friends that did find him said they smelled it as soon as they walked in the house.

Isn't is standard procedure for whiteness at a crime scene to have been called to the whiteness stand to recount what they reported to the police then cross examined? I know Jodi has admitted to killing him however there are many holes in her story that don't exactly fit with other things that transpired. I find it suspicious that all his friends and his sisters ( who hadn't even ever laid on on Jodi to this point) all pointed the finger at her immediately.

Also, if the criminal record found for Travis Is indeed his ( I believe it to be considering it has his DOB and address on it and no identity theive is going to show up to probation for 3 years under a false name when they could just assume a new fake identity) , would this information be admissable considering several battery charges including spouse/domestic battery was an included charge?

I cant believe anyone out there Thinks she should not pay for this crime with her life
i don't care if she planned it or not she shot him stabbed him 27 times and the cut his throat from ear to ear. That is not RAGE ARE ANGER OR JEALOUSY...THAT IS PURE EVIL
EVERYONE THINK FOR ONE SECOND "WHAT IF THAT WAS YOUR CHILD OR BROTHER
AND BE TRUTHFUL....LET US STOP PAYING FOR THE CARE OF NOT EVEN A HUMAN BEING
A WILD ANIMAL WITH NO FEELING AT ALL....

Best article I have read regarding this case!

It seems quite hard for me to grasp the idea that fear of abandonment could preside over jealously as a motive for murder.
After all, wouldn't premeditation involve the actual plan to eliminate the person from the face of the planet ? Which of course would leave the person who had the fear of being abandoned....well let's say "alone".
So I say that jealousy and fear of abandonment could be equal motivation to plan or premeditate to murder someone....but strictly out of the anger generated by being jealous or fear of being abandoned....and not by those feelings in themselves.
It is evident that there was much anger, rather than fear, released during this particular crime...

There's way way way more to this story than meets the eye .....Jodi please tell us what really happened????? He struggled with you tremendously .........photos alone show that !!! also this case is so high profile !!!!! kinda weird she does lose her memory.and you know what I kinda believe her .where in 2013 ,we've got mind control ,along with so many other Elite ,corrupt individuals.Who really knows ????????? she agreed to please guilty to murder 2 and it was turned down .Boy if the jury' knew that acquittal for sure .I'm praying for you Jody hang in there .R.I.P Travis Alexander .
ATT.Jody your song was beautiful ,you have a great voice .Remember John 3:16 for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who shall ever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life .God has a wonderful plan for your life .sometimes he puts people in certain places to
get them on the right track .remember it's a free gift !!!! just ask him to forgive you for your sins and to come into your heart <3 god bless mjmmorales

Court Observer:

You are right. I am called a "Wop" at my work, called a "fag", told to sell or die and to quit if I don't like it. And when I swear, or fight back I am told that it is not professional and I can't do that. So I should be allowed to stab my boss 27 times, slit his throat and then shoot him in the head, right?

Wow, what a great realization. I can't believe you did not tell me this before. Everyone one in the world should have this same right. If you are disrespected or treated with hypocrisy, then brutally murder your way of it. It's the right thing to do.

You are so stupid it makes me sick. Ask you self this:

If your child was murdered in a similar fashion at school because your child was bullying another classmate, would you tell the school and the police that you are not pressing charges because that other classmate was right in reacting that way? How would that make you feel?

Think before you make decisions. Follow the law. You might not believe in the Ten Commandments, but you can't not believe in the law. For those who do, justice will be served. Jody's judgement day is coming.

In response to Vlad:

Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is simple. It's been proven here. The lying is in fact a determination of guilt. When you lie, you are guilty. It's human nature. It's fact. That is what lying is. It's a reaction to guilt. By definition, this proves Jody Arias guilty of murder. You can prove it was in the first degree because there was premeditation. She planned it. She can't explain in a convincing manner why her grandparents gun is gone, why she bought tons of gas ahead of time, why the knife was missing from the block, and most importantly how she brutally killed Travis. Her defense has poorly demonstrated self-defense. Poorly demonstrated evidence that she was beaten mentally and physically. Poorly demonstrated how the events of that day prove she has told any truth what so ever. She is in violation of lying under oath, proving guilt. If everything you say is a lie, then what reasonable doubt is there to overcome?

I believe the the state does not know how this tragedy really happened.Using charges that they hope will cover all their so called "theories".I have opinions on this case but they are not fact.The system is sooo flawed and will never lean toward truth and justice until we change or in my opinion go back to the reason for the judicial system.Take out the emotions,greed, power trips and egos etc.Stop the games give us the facts,all of them!Thank you Mr.Gagic for having this forum and opening up this discussion,hopefully to open up minds!!!

There has been evidence suppressed.We do not get all the facts,only what they allow in.I have not and I repeat not said that she is guilty or innocent because that is not what this trial is about.is there reasonable doubt it was premeditated?It is not up to her to prove this,its up to the state to give proof and fact.The trial is not over and public "opinion"has already sent her to death.No matter what, everyone deserves a FAIR trial.If that is forgotten ,through this all, than we have failed,the justice system has failed.Reverse thhat statement, If it were your family member and you believed in their innocence and they were not getting a FAIR trial and were not allowed the truth,How would you feel?The innocence project has proven the prisons are filled with innocent people.I just believe strongly,we could do better.

I think the state is proving premeditation, and by the time they are done, will have done so beyond a reasonable doubt. Bear in mind that there is virtually nothing to 'prove' otherwise. All the defense has is Jodi's word that her 3rd version of events is finally the truth, and even that is considerably weakened by her claims of memory loss in every area for which there is no good answer supporting a self-defense argument; and this in the face of her counter claim of having an otherwise fairly remarkable memory concerning everything negative she alleges pertaining to Travis.

re: justifiable use of force in self-defense cases. No interpretation regardless of how liberal allows for 9 stab wounds to the back and near decapitation for someone who walked away virtually unscathed.

You can argue the semantics of 'proving beyond doubt' endlessly, but in the end all an objective person can do is draw a reasonable conclusion in any case.

vlad,

I see you have taken off several of my posts. I can only imagine it is because I have been critical of that ja innocent site. If that is the reason, I find that very very disappointing. No room for POVs that are different or challenge some of the others leaving comments that are simply not based on evidence? No matter what side you are on, I am surprised that if you think my posts are in anyway offensive, that you would align yourself with a website that is so over the top obscene and grotesque (like I said in the post). I challenge you to read the blog thoroughly if you have not! I am sorry but his name calling of the victim in this case- all sorts of horrendous names, along with his grieving family, based simply on rumor and innuendo I find irresponsible and for a professional like yrsf to align with that type of thinking is just scary. Do you actually read the site? I did see you posted there recently. I have enjoyed your commentary, as you have been the first person to write about this case who takes a different view of it than I and who has been interesting to read and not basing opinion so obviously on just their feelings. (Like that site.) So I am disappointed in the decision you are making. But i would like to know... If this is the reason you deleted my posts, how were my comments any different (and they certainly were never as ugly as his) than the posts the editor at that site writes? Isnt it a public entity now and just as much fair game to be analyzed in the court of public opinion...as Jodi Arias or Juan Martinez?

Hi Vlad,

Yes, Once again I am an idiot. Don't know why they disappeared for me earlier but they did- obviously user error was the problem.

Thank you for taking the time to respond. :)

What you ascribe to all women and their motivations is naive and chauvinist. You do not appear to truly understand the mind of a female psychopath, pathological stalker and liar, one who has emotions only for herself, uses her sexuality to manipulate her prey and has passive-aggressive anger when she is rejected after using her only weapon to ensnare what she must have. She went to kill him, and used a 25 cal handgun that was "stolen" a week before from her grandparents house where she was staying. Travis had been on a shooting range with friends before, but had borrowed guns from them to shoot because he didn't own a gun; he didn't go out right before the murder and happen to buy a 25 cal handgun, which is hardly the choice of someone buying a handgun for the first time. Jodi herself said he did not own a gun, until of course it became essential to change her story that he had one but unloaded, and then again change her story that he loaded it once...while no evidence he ever purchased a gun, no one ever saw this gun or knew about it and no holster, case or other ammunition was found in the house.

Interestingly, when she supposedly ran away from Travis after he "body slammed" her, she did not go left out of the bathroom to safety but right into the closet which only led right back into the bathroom where Travis was, Yet only after going in the closet did she think about the "gun".

The fact that she had sex with him only means she wanted to one last time, waiting for him to be in the weakest moment for her to pounce...in the shower. She likely STABBED him first as she wanted him to witness her anger (remember Travis's prophetic blog weeks before his murder where he said he wanted to meet someone and get married but get to know her so he would know she wasn't an "ax murderer".?..Jodi probably read this as she was stalking him and perhaps took this as a slam, thinking "we'll you shall see!" The forensic evidence in fact supports stabbing before gunshot. She likely slit his throat to stop the screaming for fear the dog would hear and start barking.

Her FOG events included, in her version: 1. going to find the knife while leaving Travis with the loaded gun, 2. stabbing him 29 times, 3. picking up camera, 4. dragging him back to the shower, 5. rinsing him off of her DNA evidence from bloody finger cut, 6. deleting the photos, 7. stripping off and bagging up her clothes including bloody socks so she wouldn't trample blood in other parts of the house, 8. putting on fresh clothes, 9. stripping the bed and placing linens containing her sexual DNA, camera and Travis's bloody clothes in washer and washing them, 10. going around house to collect all incriminating evidence such as gun, rope, all her belongings, 11. locking Travis's bedroom door so he would not be found for five days, 12. checking Travis's messages, and 13. driving out to the desert, where she conveniently came out of her FOG and disposed of the gun, her bloody clothes etc.

Had she not left the camera behind revealing time-stamped photos of critical parts of murder, she might have eluded prosecution. We might be hearing much later and a renewed investigation of Travis following the subsequent murder of an ex-boyfriend of Arias. Unfortunately, women like this will kill again and again when it suits them.

And until you have met girls like this...................you'll never understand, but then again if everyone had met a Jodi,....there would be no one left to defend them!

No one knows what happened between Jodi Arias and TA. Only GOD knows. But, based on what I have witnessed in the court proceedings on TV, HLN and the readings online, it is "sad" to see how "UN-supportive" women are to each other.

It is quite clear that the guy was very abusive, controlling and demeaning to Jodi. He had her like a doll to the point of taking away her personality. That guy was like many "women-haters" out there, a "criminal of the mind."

Jodi was a battered woman, Travis drove her crazy!

by the way also, Jodi is no going to go rent a car and then accidently leave a paper trail. nope

They WILL WHEN THEY ACT OUT THE VICIOUS CRIME SCENE AND CALL SOME REBULDER WITNESSES AND EXPERT TO LIE FOR THEM AND SPEND JUST AS MUCH TIME IN COURT AS THE DEFENSE TEAM DOES THEY WILL WIN HANDS DOWN.

We all have emotional past with baggage. The question do you except killing as a reason to restore a loss from anyone. I say know. composure and respect of relationships is the most important issue. If you ever cared for another, if they don't share your love, then live with it as that feeling will pass another love will take it's place. Jodi moved on after killing Travis she did not have to kill him. She choose to.

The gullibility of some Jodi Arias sympathizers here is breathtaking.

It makes me wonder if they still believe in The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy.

The Prosecution has proven MURDER ONE!!