Martinez's cross-examination of defendant Jodi Arias will resume at 10:30 MST. I didn't watch yesterday's testimony for the most part because what little I saw was the same old, same old. I have the replays here, so I will catch up.
Martinez has a huge task in trying to prove premeditation and motive. He can't do it.
That’s because he took at face value what Travis’s friends and acquaintances had to say about Jodi and Travis. They didn’t even truly KNOW Travis–and neither did his family–yet Martinez and Flores went with this half-baked, wildly improbably scenario, which some people can’t seem to remember as they keep trying say “premeditation” can be a “snap judgment” although Martinez has NEVER made the claim when he sought the death penalty. It’s the scenario that the HLN lynch mob have run with, and this theory began with the original 48 Hours episode on the case. The scenario goes like this: Jodi Arias was this obsessive stalker, who, in a fit of rage, stole her grandfather’s gun, drove 1,000 miles from Yreka to Mesa, to kill or to at least confront Travis Alexander about his seeing other women, in particular, taking Mimi Hall to Cancun. When he declined to change his mind about Cancun, according to the theory, Jodi viciously killed him by shooting him and stabbing him, or stabbing him and shooting him, or whichever order the prosecution is trying to claim at the moment. THAT is the theory, and that is what Martinez is trying to prove.
The problem is it didn’t happen that way. It couldn’t have happened that way. The sex tape all but destroyed Martinez’s theories of premeditation and motive. There is NO evidence of either in this case. Travis's friends and family didn't know him at all. Travis didn't confide in them about his relationships with women or admit the truth, and he couldn't, for fear of being exposed given his status in the Mormon church. He already had been in trouble once with the church and didn't want any further trouble. He truly led a double life.
Absent evidence Jodi shot her mouth off to a jailhouse snitch proving premeditation and motive, this is NOT a death penalty case.
The case is a complete mess now. The water has been so muddied it would take a miracle for the jury to sift all of the garbage out of it.
Trial can be viewed at the Arizona Republic website, among live streams or can be viewed here on the blog:
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