Of course the defense has no choice but to make Travis look bad. This is routine when there is a guilty defendant, but our Constitution guarantees everybody the right to trial, even the guilty.
Both parties considered themselves used by the other:
Earlier, the prosecution introduced emails between the couple. On cross examination, a defense lawyer asked Flores whether Alexander referred to Arias in those emails with a crude sexual term as well as other insulting words.
"Do you recall her saying he had said several mean things to her?" defense lawyer Kirk Nurmi asked.
"Yes," Flores answered.
Nurmi asked if Alexander referred to Arias "as a slut." "Yes," the detective said.
"As a whore?" the lawyer asked. "Yes," he replied.
Flores testified that the exchange included Alexander writing to Arias, "I think I was little more than a dildo with a heartbeat to you."
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There have been many comparisons in the media between this and Casey Anthony's but there is NO comparison at all. A far better comparison is with Carolyn Warmus, Betty Broderick, or Dana Chandler.
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