LOL, Rickshaw! I think, though, this would be my preferred title, and for a different project altogether:.
The project: one in a series of Cliff Notes for Trial Watchers
The title: "As the Kaleidiscope Turns: Entirely Circular Thoughts on the Arias Trial, by a Rampant Speculator".
’S COA APPEAL,
SOME LINKS RELATING TO ONE OF THEIR MOST LIKELY ARGUMENTS: THAT EXCESSIVE PUBLICITY LED TO INTIMIDATION OF MITIGATION WITNESSES, THUS DENYING THE HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO “FULL MITIGATION”
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1. Sealed Evidentiary hearing, October 6, 2014.
Start at 38:00. Prosecutor is intimating prospective mitigation witnesses (denying full mitigation); discussion is about Dr. Geffner and Liar McGee.
Start around 45:00. Wilmott: McGee (and his family) have been threatened and he feels too intimidated to appear in court; doesn’t have screenshots of any of those alleged threats (made on Justice4Travis site) with her but will submit them to JSS later for filing.
Start around 51:00. Nurmi explicitly links JSS rulings on PR to excessive publicity to witnesses being harassed and intimidated to denial of ’s right to full mitigation in DP case.
Start around 53:00. JM says he believes Nurmi’s argument that witnesses, including Marc McGee, are too scared to testify (part of another motion to dismiss) is “made for appeals purposes.”
He mentions “tweets” between MDLR and Michael Kieffer and says that MDLR told Kieffer that the DT’s motions relating to threats to witnesses were being filed for strategic purposes (to ensure the issue of witness intimidation could be raised during appeals). (JM attached those “tweets” to a motion he filed, so they are included in the trial record.
Also during this hearing: Nurmi requests and JSS grants a sealed hearing to take place to hear/rule on Nurmi’s arguments why can’t receive a full mitigation because of witness intimidation.
Included in that Motion are the names of witnesses Nurmi claims felt too intimidated to testify, and what their testimony “would have been.” Marc McGee was on that list, and Nurmi lays out what Marc McGee’s testimony “would have been”: that Travis was sexually abused as a child; that he stored child *advertiser censored* on the Bishop’s computer.
Note: we already know about these and other incredibly vile lies by told by Marc McGee, because those lies--and others by other anonymous witnesses afraid of being destroyed on the stand by JM--came in during PP2 via “expert” testimony.
Whatever Nurmi argued in the sealed hearing JSS granted on this date (10/6/2014), it is likely he used as predicate JSS’s (sealed) ruling on November 14, 2013. That ruling sealed the electronic record for the duration of PP2, a ruling made because JSS apparently accepted Nurmi’s argument that public access to ANY pretrial proceedings and motions would prejudice the ’s rights.
Nurmi referred to JSS’s 11/14/2013 ruling while arguing in front of the COA about the sealing of court, and again, after the COA ordered JSS to reopen court, when he complained, bitterly, to JSS that she seemed to be backtracking on her rulings of that date.
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2. COA hearing on the sealing of court for ’s testimony
Begin around 9:45. Nurmi argues why the Court should be sealed: he explicitly blames excessive publicity on JSS not ruling in his favor at the beginning of trial, then links that publicity to threats and thwarted mitigation.
Highlight: Judge Howe telling Nurmi to put on his big boy spidies about those alleged “threats” being made against him.
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3. COA written ruling ordering JSS to open the courtroom for ’s testimony
http://cdn-static.wildabouttrial.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CourtOfAppeals.pdf
(Clues about how the COA might respond --again-to attorneys' arguments about publicity and intimidation and the like).
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4. Judge Stephens' denial of the DT's request to dismiss DP (issued on January 14, 2015)
Lists many (perhaps most) of the issues Nurmi wanted to preserve for appeal.
JSS's full ruling: http://media2.abc15.com/html/pdf/AriasJan14motion.pdf
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Piece of $hite, I believe...(please don't ban me!).okay, so, I am not new to WS but didnt follow this case-- got curious a few weeks ago and watched the interrogation tapes and read the prosecuter's book --
so...what does stand for? lol knowing mods here I am sure it isnt *exactly* what it looks like but I cant come up with any alternates
LOL, Rickshaw! I think, though, this would be my preferred title, and for a different project altogether:.
The project: one in a series of Cliff Notes for Trial Watchers
The title: "As the Kaleidiscope Turns: Entirely Circular Thoughts on the Arias Trial, by a Rampant Speculator".
okay, so, I am not new to WS but didnt follow this case-- got curious a few weeks ago and watched the interrogation tapes and read the prosecuter's book --
so...what does stand for? lol knowing mods here I am sure it isnt *exactly* what it looks like but I cant come up with any alternates
okay, so, I am not new to WS but didnt follow this case-- got curious a few weeks ago and watched the interrogation tapes and read the prosecuter's book --
so...what does stand for? lol knowing mods here I am sure it isnt *exactly* what it looks like but I cant come up with any alternates
As for writing a book. I'm honored that you think I could do that. I've joked to my DH -but it's also accurate- that I have put as much time & effort over the years on this as I would have in writing a PhD dissertation. And I agree that while other books have been written about the , Travis, and/or the trial, none have been as comprehensive as the collective product of our discussions & conclusions here on WS.
Consider an eBook for online publication. You could wait until more evidence appears but organise what you have written in preparation for the appropriate angle.
Even if I were capable of writing a book and seeing that project through to completion (not sure I could), and even if I was willing to capitalize on the work here we have ALL done (not sure I'm ok with that), I guess I have my doubts about whether or not there really would be an audience for such a book.
I'd suggest you research at the eBook offerings on Amazon. You have already done all of the work. Probably a thousand times more information provided than is on offer online. It doesn't have to be hundreds and hundreds of pages either. Seems to me that it would be worth caleloguing
Based in part by the huge drop-off in trialwatchers between trial one & PP2, I'm thinking that many or even most of the folks who first tuned in later tuned out when the live salacious spectacle was turned off. Somehow I doubt they would tune back in for yet one more book, especially one as nerdy as the only kind of book I can imagine myself writing.
Numbers dropped off (in part) due to how difficult the manipulative murderer made it to watch PP2.. I followed every minute of the first trial but was frustrated by having to piece tweets and terrible camera footage together in the second. Like many on this forum, I persevered, but it was a chore.
I think JM wrote the book hard core trial watchers wanted to read. Though.....I know I wished he had (though I knew he wouldn't) included a deep dive into her manipulations & torment of Travis.
As much as I love Juan Martinez, the book didn't satisfy my questions. He was limited in what could be covered. His explanations were riveting yet I wanted more. Maybe, in future, he can write the book with less restrictions and more free opinions.
Imagine, for example, what is contained in the full email record of TA- exchanges (have seen but a few), much less of the full record of emails between TAs and friends that contain discussions about the (drooling
One day, I too hope we can access the missing pieces.
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okay, so, I am not new to WS but didnt follow this case-- got curious a few weeks ago and watched the interrogation tapes and read the prosecuter's book --
so...what does stand for? lol knowing mods here I am sure it isnt *exactly* what it looks like but I cant come up with any alternates
They are indeed, H4M. For those unfamiliar with the area, I just wanted to put a visual perspective between the three places she stopped at in Pasadena. On the way down to L.A. last week, I wanted to stop in the Salinas area to take a few pics of the Walmart she stopped at (and also the elusive hair, nail and wax shop), but our route took us in a different direction. I hope to get down there for those pics this September.LMAO , especially at the Starbucks parking lot photos.
Is that the Arco she really used? And the CVS? And Starbucks?
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
