03-10-2013, 12:30 PM
(03-10-2013, 03:15 AM)thekid65 Wrote: One can't help but wonder if Arias, right after Florez brought her in for questioning the first time, would have said 3 simple words, how different this case would be:
"I want a lawyer"
She runs the show with her lawyers; I'm not sure how different the case would be if she'd asked for a lawyer before her arrest. Jodi needs to be in control and talk and spin, imo. She thought she was smarter than police and too smart for attorneys; still does.
She called Mesa PD offering to assist in the investigation before police ever contacted her. The first lawyer assigned to her case asked to be removed when Jodi changed her story for the third time and started with all of the abuse and pedo stuff (but, I don't know if Washington quit because of those allegations specifically).
Here's Jodi's letter to the prosecution offering to plea down to 2nd Degree back in July 2011. This was written almost a year after she sent her first letter for the same purpose, without getting a response. When this follow-up plea request was first published, it read a lot like blackmail to me (still does) - threatening to reflect poorly on the Mormon church, Travis's friend, and Travis's reputation if the state and Alexander's family didn't agree to downgrade her charges. This letter was clearly written by Jodi (not her counsel; it's got Jodi written all over it). In it, there's a reference to how her new strategy to present Travis as an abuser would add a layer of authenticity to "the letters".
The plea letter:
http://grahamwinch.files.wordpress.com/2...ngfile.pdf
Jodi represented herself for a couple of weeks in August 2011, after her 2nd Degree plea request was denied. At that time, she tried to introduce "the letters" into evidence. The letters were supposedly from Travis and abusive towards Jodi. In them, he admits to being a pedophile. Well, they were electronic copies, Jodi wouldn't say who/how she got them in jail, and the prosecution claimed its experts deemed them to be forgeries. She thought she was smarter than the judge and experts, but that didn't pan out. The letters were tossed out as potential evidence by the judge and have never been mentioned in court (yet?).
Notice in the plea letter that lovely Jodi ends by stating that she is making such a generous offer because she has grave regrets about all the "falsehoods" she'd already made to the media and how they must have caused the Alexander family more pain.
She's a vicious bitch and Nurmi's been stuck with her for years. I bet he can't wait to be done with her. He drew the short straw on this one, no doubt.