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Check out the excellent & insightful post below from the Spotlight On Law blog…

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Misrepresentation and Deceit in the Arias Trial: Crystal Blue Persuasion
(Fact Based Reporting by Rob Roman and Amanda Chen)

“Somebody lied to you about important facts in this case.” – Juan Martinez

“If you believe what the defendant is telling you, then all the arguments begin to make sense.” – Juan Martinez

According to Juan Martinez:

If it is written down, it’s the truth. If it’s not, it’s a lie. A white lie is just as bad as a regular lie. Not telling the full and complete truth at all times is a lie. Omitting details is lying. Anything that anyone says happened that is not in their diary is a lie.

If you are attacked or beaten by your partner and you don’t document it, tell someone or call 911, it never happened and you are a liar.

You are a liar if, after you do something unspeakable, you do not tell every person you meet what you can remember about what you have done.

Somebody did lie about important facts in this case, and we’re not talking about Jodi Arias. We have broken these lies down into five categories. The headings in bold type are assertions made by Juan Martinez in his closing argument .

These are the categories of lies:

White Lie: Typically a white lie is a harmless lie that is often done to be polite. Here, it’s a lie that plays into Martinez’ themes and theories, but it’s immaterial to the murder charge. These white lies are far from harmless.

Exaggeration: Something from the facts or testimony is taken out of context and magnified. It’s a fish story where a mountain is made out of a molehill.

Misrepresentation: This includes presenting mere speculation as fact, and changing the meanings of facts. It’s a deliberate effort to skew a fact to align it with other facts in the case.

Mirror: It’s a manipulation of the jury. Juan Martinez is projecting his own feelings, motives and ideas, or those of others, onto the defendant.
(see more about the this in the previous article, Lies and Juanipulation: The Mirror Crack’d)

Whopper: It’s an obvious untruth in light of the facts. It’s deceitful and a breach of integrity.

Let’s examine more of the territory covered in the prosecutor’s all-important closing arguments:

The Manifesto and Salt Lake City:

“She has signed a Manifesto just in case she becomes famous” – Juan Martinez

This is another thing Martinez dug up in Alyce LaViolette’s notes. The prosecution had no witnesses attesting to any “Manifesto” and it was never entered into evidence, even though Martinez wants the jury to believe that Arias made copies and autographed the copies in jail in Yreka.

Even if she did, it’s just the same “intruder story” again, and Arias has already claimed she invented the story as a stalling tactic. Reporters have requested proof of the Manifesto from the prosecutor’s office, and they’re still waiting:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/jodi-arias-manifesto-day-42_n_3041141.html

“This woman who claims she never went to Salt Lake City” – Juan Martinez

Martinez tells the jury Jodi testified that she was never in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was in West Jordan, on the far outskirts of Salt Lake City. This honest answer is a lie and a manipulation, according to Martinez, because a gas receipt near West Jordan states “Salt Lake City”.

This is simply a trick of semantics.

“Staging The Scene”:

Arias believes “she will not be convicted, after she has staged the scene for you”.  – Juan Martinez

It’s The Mirror. The most important question here is why does Martinez feel he needs to add all the ornamentation you see throughout the trial? This is yet another behavior that El Espejo, the mirror, attributes to Jodi Arias.

Juan tells the jury that “in the light of truth you can see who she really is.” “This is an individual who is manipulative.” “This is an individual who will stop at nothing and will continue to be manipulative and will lie at every turn and at every occasion that she has.”

This from the man who peppered the trial with lengthy inquiries and discussions about Bobby Juarez, high school era windows and doors, happenings from Arias’ life when she was 5 and 8 years old, the backspace button, the criminal, the stupid sister, the gopher, the dog, the chameleon, the wildebeest, that thing, Snow White, the Shack, the Christmas tree, the Ring and The Fog…

CLICK HERE TO READ THIS POST IN FULL IN THE “SPOTLIGHT ON LAW” BLOG

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Remember: WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI!

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