Hi Linas. I missed you yesterday. I saw some posts real late but figured you were working during the day. Don't go far away. I count on you to stay positive because I feel so negative sometimes.
Why is everyone worried about no trial today? I figure Nurmi asked the judge to stop trial today so he could wait for the supreme court ruling...if there is one. They scheduled a hearing but never said they would hear argument. I imagine that's because they are going to shoot down the defense and I figured Nurmi didn't want to deal with his client scowling at him. I think the individual juror questions were about scheduling. I can't see any way that the trial ends in Februrary. Nurmi already said he would have a surrebuttal and was calling our two fave psychologists. Haha.
I didn't like the questions to DeMarte yesterday because I couldn't get a good feel for where their minds are. So I am resolved that soon this will be over. Jodi will go away. And I will feel free of the stress.
BBM I'm with you about those juror's questions and did not like them.
Someone on that jury is really questioning Dr. DeMarte's testimony or were some jury questions just clarifying her testimony?
It appears to me that someone on that jury may be looking for a way to give her " life" - take the DP off of the table, and use her so called mental illness as a way to justify it. As I have been thinking about it today, I don't know, I still have a terrible feeling about those last 2 questions.
IMO, it doesn't matter what she scored on tests or Dr. DeMarte's credentials; the whole matter should come down to, yes she has BPD, but she knows right from wrong and BPD didn't have anything to do with her decisions. For me, BPD is not the reason, nor can missy:jail: or Lawrence use it as an excuse, to commit pre-meditated murder, IMO.
But I fear we may have a "JAII" juror. Once a mind is made it's hard to change it, especially if it's a person dealing with feelings, maybe feeling sorry, for missy:jail:- she's so 'mentally ill" :sheesh:, like the "foreman", GZ, who wanted to talk to her. :gaah:
I am starting to doubt the understanding of these jury members of just who missy:jail: is- a person who committed a truly heinous murder of an innocent man in a most horrible way, cruelly, with no remorse.
Is missy:jail: mentally ill or does she have a disorder and what is the difference in the labels? I'm getting very confused now with Dr. DeMarte's answers and I'm very confused with all the research I have done today to see if there is a difference (it depends upon who is writing the article :sheesh: ). I've always considered that having a "mental illness" or "insanity", which is what I called a mental illness when it comes to murder-everyone who commits a murder had to have a "screw loose" somewhere in their head, was enough to spare a person from the DP, but now I question that because Dr. Demarte is saying that BPD, what I consider a disorder, is a mental illness.
Dr. Demarte testified that Arias had a mental disorder in BPD, but not a mental illness (missy knows the difference between right and wrong). So now the new answer to that juror question is that she has a mental illness? I'm so confused. If she had said instead, that, yes she has a "mental illness" in BPD, but it's not like schizophrenia, where she is hearing voices to tell her to murder- Andrea Yates type- a definite unreality, if you will, and that would make it difficult to appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct; in BPD she knew what she was doing, that would have been a better answer, IMO. If I were a juror, I would be confused because now there are 2 different answers to "mental illness" and (BPD) "personality disorder".
I spoke to my son, who just recently received his BS in psychology, about BPD and mental illness and he said that BDP is not a mental illness.:gaah:
If she was mentally ill, has a disorder, whatever, will the jury give her a pass out of the DP? I am hoping I am misinterpreting the questions because they have no "depth" to them with only tweets, and the jurors have received sufficient information from JM regarding the difference between a disorder and a true, severe mental illness where a person is not responsible for their actions. By law, she is not "mentally insane" and knows right from wrong, but it could be that question about "mental Illness" comes very close to "mental insanity" and the juror(s) could be just as confused as I am. To me, only the most severe mental illness would make someone mentally incompetent and not qualified for the DP, but will the juror(s) feel the same way? What would "severe" mean to them? Look at GZ again- he thought the DP was only for the most severe murderers.
Sorry if I'm fixated on the point of mental illness. I think it's a very important part of her mitigation and I'm enraged about this new mitigation. As the years of this trial go on and on, I'm just losing it; I'm getting all mixed up and more confused- this trial is like the song that doesn't end: :sheesh:
[video=youtube;9ffL573XI50]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ffL573XI50[/video]
And- what the heck does how long missy worked at the Purple Plum have do to with anything? Just doesn't make any sense to me! I'm very confused about that question.
And- why the question about why her tests are more accurate than the tests done by psychologists hired by Lawrence? What a question! Sounds like someone doesn't think Dr. DeMarte knows her stuff, IMO.
Alright, I'm done with the jurors questions- promise.