03-20-2013, 11:30 PM
Jesus, looking at that ABC15 cost estimate to date, this trial is probably gonna exceed $1 million. Outrageous. Wonder if they paid Samuels and the lawyers for the full day due to the unforeseen vomit fiasco. Probably.
Sounds like I didn't miss much today. Samuels's sticking to his diagnosis, because surely the feelings associated with escaping a home intrusion unscathed and being forced to stab/shoot/slash to death someone you claim to love must be the same. Quack, quack, quack...
This recap from today's testimony just made me laugh:
The psychologist also told jurors Arias did not want all the sex.“Well, for her, the relationship hadn't gone on for very long, and they were at some friend's house and, according to her story, he came into her room during the night and unclothed her and had oral sex with her,” Dr. Samuels said.
“At the time, her self-esteem was very low. The proceeding gap between his accomplishments and status in the community and hers was very great. She went along with it because she felt this was something he wanted. And in order to maintain the relationship with someone she respected, she went along with the oral sex,” Dr. Samuels explained to jurors.
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_pho...z2O8hW3dfl
Makes perfect sense. Attracting a successful, respectable, and popular person will obviously lower one's self esteem. And, there's just no way in hell a woman would agree to being orally pleasured by a man simply because she enjoys it and him. Being so sexually meek and all, the inability to just say NO! (probably attributable to that "freeze response" espoused by Team Arias) must've been excruciatingly painful for Jodi.
Kid: Yep, this trial is crawling along, 2 1⁄2 months and lots more to go. Maybe there will be a verdict by end of April?
Sounds like I didn't miss much today. Samuels's sticking to his diagnosis, because surely the feelings associated with escaping a home intrusion unscathed and being forced to stab/shoot/slash to death someone you claim to love must be the same. Quack, quack, quack...
This recap from today's testimony just made me laugh:
The psychologist also told jurors Arias did not want all the sex.“Well, for her, the relationship hadn't gone on for very long, and they were at some friend's house and, according to her story, he came into her room during the night and unclothed her and had oral sex with her,” Dr. Samuels said.
“At the time, her self-esteem was very low. The proceeding gap between his accomplishments and status in the community and hers was very great. She went along with it because she felt this was something he wanted. And in order to maintain the relationship with someone she respected, she went along with the oral sex,” Dr. Samuels explained to jurors.
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_pho...z2O8hW3dfl
Makes perfect sense. Attracting a successful, respectable, and popular person will obviously lower one's self esteem. And, there's just no way in hell a woman would agree to being orally pleasured by a man simply because she enjoys it and him. Being so sexually meek and all, the inability to just say NO! (probably attributable to that "freeze response" espoused by Team Arias) must've been excruciatingly painful for Jodi.
Kid: Yep, this trial is crawling along, 2 1⁄2 months and lots more to go. Maybe there will be a verdict by end of April?