Edie Morse's input.

Edie Morse

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” - Frank Herbert

“I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.” - Christopher Hitchens

“One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts.” - Oche Otorkpa, The Unseen Terrorist 

Does the jury in the Jodi Arias "final penalty re-trial" know that they are being manipulated by a cunning convicted killer and her unethical defense team via the cynical exploitation of gender stereotypes in order to fool them into believing that the "man" is the abuser and the "woman" is the victim? Do they realize that the emphasis placed upon "offensive" language between the victim, Travis Alexander & the brutal butcher, Jodi Arias, is purposely devised by JA & Co. in order to manipulate their emotions, in the hopes that their logical cognition will be clouded? Are they aware that the spin placed upon a highly selective set of words, taken out of context, by JA & Co., is only giving them a partial, even a warped perspective on what was a very short-lived "dating" relationship between the murderer & her victim? 

We don't know, as yet, what impact JA & Co.'s fraudulent defense case (it's not a mitigation case, by the way, and therefore, it is really not legal, although a lawless judge is permitting it, and overruling the prosecutor, Juan Martinez's many objections) and we won't know for a long time, until sometime in 2015, hopefully. We do know however, that Jodi Arias has been quite successful in manipulating Judge Sherry Stephens (JSS), because in the AZ Court of Appeals' (COA) written decision, they overturn JSS's unconstitutional ruling regarding her bizarre, unprecedented, and downright un-American special favor by wrongly allowing the convicted murderer to testify in secret, stating:--

..."... Arias subsequently advised the court that she would not testify if the press and public could know how she testified “because of the pressure that I would feel because of these threats.” Although expressing concern that Arias was being manipulative, the court stated it had considered the potential legal ramifications if an appellate court later determined that Arias did not voluntarily waive her right to present evidence in mitigation..."...

Thus, although JSS even admits that she can see that a cold-blood killer was being "manipulative", this grossly incompetent judge still caved into Skank's illegal demand, because apparently this judge has never read any of the AZ Supreme Court and/or the US Supreme Court decisions which have resulted in actual overturning DP convictions. Unbelievable! There is not a single case which I can find whereby either the AZ Supreme Court or the US Supreme Court overturned a DP conviction because a convicted murderer demanded to testify in secret, in a penalty phase, because as any competent attorney and/or alert judge knows, it is in violation of the US Constitution. Either JSS is being disingenuous & was lying in order to save her tattered reputation, after having made an extremely poor judgment call, and/or, she is just a lousy jurist-- but in either case, her competence must be questioned by the AZ Commission on Judicial Conduct.

How much time and money has JSS's bungling cost the taxpayers of Arizona, as well as the victims and the public who have rights too? To-date, since the Opening Statements made by Juan Martinez & Kirk Nurmi on October 21st, 2014, JSS only held court vis-à-vis this case, for approx. 58% of the available (33 days, not including Fridays & Holidays) days that the trial could have proceeded; and in that time, JA & Co. have only put on 3 witnesses over 19 days of trial proceedings. Three witnesses in 19 days of trial proceedings, including Jodi Arias who acted as an illegal secret witness, on one of those days. Hence, it averages out to approx. 6 days per witness. Since JA & Co. have approx. a dozen or so witnesses left, at 6 days/witness, that would amount to approximately 72 trial days left in the future by the defense alone, not including Juan Martinez's rebuttal case. And since, JSS only holds court 4 days/week at best, that would result in 18 weeks, or 4+ more months of the defense case, which if it begins on-schedule on January 5th, 2015, this farcical travesty of justice would not be completed until the end of April of May. By this calculation, Skank's sentencing phase would have lasted 2 years in total duration; and 7 months in terms of the re-trial itself. Recall that the initial guilt phase of the trial took 5 months. What other judge would have botched this DP trial up so badly?

Of course, it is unlikely that each defense witness will consume approx. 6 days each-- because, it is more likely that JSS and JA & Co. have concocted these delays in order that Jodi Arias is given ample opportunity to "piggy-back" on the Omnibus Hearing that Judge Joseph Kreamer will hold on February, 6th, 2015, when he hears a dozen or so other defendants' pleas to take the DP "off-the-table". The interesting point to be made vis-à-vis this particular Omnibus Hearing is that all of the defendants, apart from Skank, are still presumed to be innocent, because their capital murder trials have not as yet taken place, and they have not been convicted of 1st degree premeditated murder. Hence, why is a convicted murderer, Jodi Arias, now allowed to attach herself to this Omnibus Hearing in the middle of an abnormally adjudicated and exaggeratedly long penalty phase? Could it be because JSS is hoping that another judge will take the DP "off-the-table" in order that she can avoid public scrutiny in the event that she had done the "dirty deed" herself? JSS is a coward, as well a lousy jurist, in addition to being so easily manipulated by a cunning defendant & the powerful AZ Defense Attorney Lobby.

Here we are at the end of 2014, with no sentence for Skank... 19 months after her 1st degree premeditated murder verdict... and, this farcical so-called "final penalty re-trial" is being managed by Jodi Arias and her defense team:-- i.e. a defense team willing to defraud the court, with the most horrendous lies, fabrications, and outright sham testimony by a series of charlatan hired guns, including an angry, opportunistic technology-"Man on the Make" who is not even a genuine computer expert (Bryan Neumeister), as well as two dishonest psycho-babblers who have regurgitated Jodi Arias' deceptions in order to continue to trash the victim, Travis Alexander, with malicious lies, and who have claimed that this malicious, dangerous and violent sado-narcissistic psycho-killer is a victim of abuse (Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca & Dr. Richard Geffner). If it wasn't so costly, and if it wasn't so tragic, it would be downright hilarious. For Jodi Arias has tortured & abused animals-- she has beat her little brother's head with a baseball bat-- she has kicked her mother-- she tormented Travis Alexander, including hacking into his bank account & stealing his hard-earned money-- but, much of this dangerous violence by Skank, Juan Martinez cannot show to the jury, because prejudicially in favor of Jodi Arias & against the State, JSS has precluded a mountain of evidence that proves that the convicted murderer has long been cruel & abusive. (By the way, similar evidence was shown by the prosecutors in the Marissa DeVault & Bryan Wayne Husley capital murder trials; which neither Judge Steinle, nor Judge Kreamer precluded. But unlike JSS, they were not biased towards the defendants or the defense attorneys.)

No decent, ethical & legally-astute judge would permit the ungodly extent of the undermining of justice by such a brutal butcher & her "win-at-all-costs" defense team, as we have seen unfold over the past year, since the hung jury, last May 2013. Yet, JSS allows it... Why? This petty, little "judge", JSS, has worked harder than any judge that I have seen to make certain that Jodi Arias does not get the DP. The powerful AZ Defense Attorney Lobby do not want Jodi Arias to get the DP for some reason. And, the AZ Media do not want Jodi Arias to get the DP either. Why? Are there profits to be made by powerful money-brokers who would rather see Skank get a lesser sentence, and possibly even be set free? Jodi Arias has said that when she gets her conviction overturned, and walks out of jail a free woman, that she will write a book. Book publishers; movie producers; and, other money-grubbing opportunists may see Skank as profitable, if she is given a "break". Defense attorneys may see a lot of money to be made by a "high profile" appellate fight in the future. We all laugh, of course, and tell ourselves that Jodi Arias will never obtain an appeal; and that she will never walk out of prison a free woman. But let's face facts:-- Who would have thought back in May of 2013 that we would be sitting here in December of 2014 with Jodi Arias' trial still on-going, and no sentence having been handed down, and the end of this nightmare not even close at-hand? This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the normal course of events for a murder trial, not even for a capital murder trial. 

Will this travesty of justice play itself out until the bitter end, or will a mistrial of the penalty phase be called before the decision of "Life or Death" even goes before the jury? As of the end of this year, 2014, there are currently three "escape routes" which have been engineered by JA & Co., and enabled by JSS, who has allowed them to move forward, without any ruling to-date, nor even any discouragement, since normally a competent judge would put a stop to so many frivolous motions continually being filed so repetitively by a defense team run-amok who has transparently been "gaming the system", for over a year, in order to delay & disrupt the trial proceedings, in the hopes that either the State backs down, or a mistrial is called by a judicial joke whom they know that they can manipulate. Frivolous motions are not legal, and can result in "contempt of court" citations, but not when JSS is in there to be "had" via "ex-partying". These outstanding DP "exits" which Skank has pushed hard include:--

1.) Jodi Arias' motion that the DP be taken "off-the-table" because she cannot get a fair trial, in her words, now that the COA has ruled that she can no longer testify in secret, because it is a violation of the US Constitution. JA & Co. may well argue before the AZ Supreme Court that JSS made a promise to JA that she could testify in secret in a sealed trial proceeding, and that because the COA over-turned JSS's decision (because it was illegal... i.e. this judge had no right to make such a promise)-- but that JA who trusted the judge, is now in an untenable position, and fearful of testifying any further. Ludicrous, I know, yet... the AZ Supreme Court would uphold the COA decision, imo, but there is an "ugly wart" in this mess to be dealt with:-- What happens when a judge makes a promise to a defendant, that the defendant relies upon, but which a higher court says can no longer be used or upheld, because that ruling should have never been made, in the first place? JA & Co. may be waiting to see how this next motion plays out, before they decide whether or not to appeal to a higher court:-- 

2.) Jodi Arias' motion that the DP be taken "off-the-table" because Juan Martinez & Det. Flores, they claim, engaged in misconduct and tampered with computer evidence as it relates to "porn" that they allege was on Travis Alexander's computer. Jodi Arias maintains that there was "porn" on Travis Alexander's computer and that the State hid that evidence from the defendant & from the last jury, and that had the last jury known about the "porn" that they would have believed that she was not a liar, and that they might have found for a lesser charge. Of course, I don't buy any of it, to be frank:-- for Skank has "crowed" (via her Twitter Dope) that she got hold of this "evidence" when JSS wrongly-- (because the US Supreme Court has upheld that once a defendant was granted "Pro Se" & turns it down, that the judge is no longer obliged to grant a 2nd request for self-representation in order to avoid a defendant repeatedly disrupting the trial proceedings)-- granted her a 2nd "Pro Se", and also, it is highly probably, imo, that her PI Dorian Bond & Bryan ("Eyeball"-guy) Neumeister & his cronies, have themselves tampered with the evidence in such a way as to misrepresent what really occurred when Travis Alexander's computer was shown to Skank's first defense team & when clones were initially created. However, this is a bloody hornet's nest... and worse, it still remains unresolved. Neumeister has refused to hand over evidence to the State, and the State cannot reproduce his "findings", and moreover, we do not know who planted" any such "porn" on Travis Alexander's computer, in the first place. Skank probably did it herself, for she "knew" it was there. How did she "know" it was there? Something stinks... i.e. something reeks of corruption. But, unless the State's computer experts can prove that Neumeister & Co. fiddled the results, we have a problem of looming suspicion casting doubt on the State; and unhappily, it does not help that JSS has ordered Neumeister to hand over his clones/images/raw data/etc. to the State on more than one occasion; but that he refuses to do so and also, that JA & Co. refuse to co-operate, and shockingly, JSS does nothing, absolutely nothing about their contempt of court. This is when and where other judges-- i.e. competent judges-- would indeed cite both Neumeister and JA & Co. in "contempt of court". What will JSS's ruling be on this motion? She may wish to "kick-the-can-down-the-road" in anticipation of this next request by the convicted murderer:--

3.) Jodi Arias' request (sealed motion) that another judge, Judge Joseph Kreamer, dismiss the DP in the Omnibus Hearing on February 6th, 2015. Nobody seems to know why JSS permitted Skank to join this group of defendants, none of whom have faced trial and none of whom are in the same category as Skank:-- i.e. none of them have been convicted of 1st degree premeditated murder. Nobody seems to know why JSS has not been scrutinized by the AZ Judiciary, and/or by the AZ Commission on Judicial Conduct, and/or by the AZ Media, for that matter, for delaying the final penalty re-trial, originally scheduled to begin on July 18th, 2013, and of which she stated would be completed by December 18th, 2014; but now, there is no end in sight to this mockery of our justice system. Nobody seems to know why JSS has spent the entire last 17 months coddling Skank, a convicted murderer, in illegal "ex-parte" meetings; sealed hearings & sealed documents run-amok; and, postponements in violation of the AZ Victim's Bill of Rights. What is JSS's relationship with Judge Joseph Kreamer, regarding this Omnibus Hearing? Has she intervened with him by attempting to persuade him to grant Jodi Arias' request? Have they discussed Jodi Arias' request to take the DP "off-the-table", in the event that JSS is forced to strike down the prior two motions, mentioned above, if and when Juan Martinez shows there is no legal foundation to JA & Co.'s frivolous motions?

Today, there exists these three worrisome hurdles which must be overcome in order that Jodi Arias is ever to even face the possibility of this jury deciding whether or not to give her the Death Penalty, and they are all out there, awaiting rulings in 2015. Meanwhile, we have been focused on Jodi Arias' charlatan-hired guns who are willing to perjure themselves on behalf of this grotesque, cold-blooded killer. For make no mistake about it:-- the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is not being told in the courtroom-- not even close. It's a con. Of course, the irony in this charade, is that the last quack that the jury heard before they were dismissed for the Christmas holiday, was Dr. Richard Geffner, Alyce LaToilette's close pal, who laughably tried to uphold & support LaToilette's sheer-and-utter lunatic "Domestic Violence Victim" BS, and ergo to paint the victim, Travis Alexander, as manipulative & abusive, when it was obviously Skank who was proven to be manipulative & abusive to the extreme:-- to such an extreme that she gutted Travis Alexander to death, in a heinous, depraved, and cruel manner. Juan Martinez, so valiantly, has attempted to object to this fraud, over the course of the last week, but has all too often been over-ruled & hamstrung too. JSS has even allowed Dr. "Guff" Geffner to vomit this venal hearsay by Matt McCartney, Skank's criminal cohort, who was willing to lie for her, and who was also allegedly involved in helping the psycho-killer, prior to the initial guilt phase of the trial, forge the fake pedophile letters that the State proved were falsehoods:--

""Out of the sizzle. Geff explains that Matts description of ‪#‎JodiArias‬ included "she wasn't manipulative, not aggressive or abusive" - Wild About Trial, December 17th, 2014, 10:30 am

Not manipulative? Not aggressive? Not abusive? This deception represents orwellian sophistry of the basest kind. Simply untrue & unsubstantiated, and if JSS would allow the entirety of the incriminating evidence against the convicted murderer to be exposed, which she hasn't to-date, and she won't, then these dishonest claims would be debunked! And what about JSS's demeanour in the courtroom? ... Well, for goodness sakes, she couldn't even manage to hide her own unprofessional glee as Dr. "Guff" Geffner & Willmott were spinning their web-of-lies:--

"Judge Stephens twirls her glasses around as the excitement of past #JodiArias relationship talk continues with Geff and Jennifer." - Wild About Trial, December 17th, 11:43 am

And, when there were breaks in the trial proceedings, the twitter-reporters indicated that as soon as the jury would leave the courtroom, and were out of sight & out of earshot, that this kind of rude & disrespectful stuff would occur. Jodi Arias' body-language & movement is quite different when the jury is present versus when they are absent:--

"Jury is gone. Everyone is laughing, not sure why. Counsel proached and is sizzling. Maria and #JodiArias are huddling." - Wild About Trial, December 17th, 12:01 pm

No manipulation by Jodi Arias going on? Pshaw! Don't make me laugh! Alas, yesterday, the last day of the trial proceedings before Christmas, and all around the courtroom there was even more manipulation to be had, which was initiated by the convicted murderer herself, Jodi Arias, who did this:--

"#JodiArias did a two handed praying pose this time as the jury came in." - Wild About Trial, December 18th, 9:25 am

A "praying pose" for judge & jury:-- that's manipulation of the most cynical kind; and some might even say, the most blasphemous kind too. Such manipulation has worked its magic on this weak-minded judge, JSS. Will it work on the jury, if they are ever allowed to deliberate the sentencing verdict? Will the jury ever even make the final decision regarding Jodi Arias' sentence? At this rate, out of the 16 jurors left, how many will make it to the end, if a mistrial isn't called beforehand? We won't know until sometime down the road in 2015... and, it's been a long, long road to get to now. It's really been a long, long, long way from that Estrella jail talent contest held in December 2011, that this manipulative psychopath, Jodi Arias, actually won by singing "Oh Holy Night", before she exposed herself as a cunning, manipulative, remorseless psycho-killer-cum-pathological liar on the witness stand. And lest we forget, another year has come and gone that the victims, the Alexanders, and the AZ taxpayers, and the public too, have not seen justice done. This isn't justice. It's injustice.

Justice 4 Travis in 2015.