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Team Jodi file motion for Change of Venue

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CLICK HERE TO READ THE MOTION, FILED TUESDAY (10 page PDF)

By Michael Kiefer, AZcentral.com, 8/27/2013:

Jodi Arias loves the media, and, to her detriment, the media love her.

But as she potentially nears retrial this fall, her attorneys are busily filing motions to keep her from being burned by the same coverage that scorched her during her first trial.

On Tuesday, they filed a motion for a change of venue to move her trial out of Maricopa County, citing research that 70 percent of the media coverage in Arizona of the first trial took place there.

Her attorneys also want live TV coverage prohibited for the retrial, the right to question new juror candidates individually about what they have seen of the case in the media and a list of Twitter accounts for those jurors to ensure they are not following news about the trial.

Arias was in Superior Court briefly Monday morning, but Judge Sherry Stephens told the attorneys that she had not had time to decide on the other motions before her in the case. She set a date of Sept. 16 to hear oral arguments on the matters.

Stephens had hoped to bring the case back to trial by the end of September, but the delay in pretrial procedures makes that goal more and more unlikely.

The defense attorneys, Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott, have three other motions before the court, all of which have to do with heightened media coverage, which they feel denies Arias the right to a fair trial. Coverage of the trial went viral, through live-streamed broadcasts of day-to-day hearings and an aggressive national TV audience.

The motion asking that the attorneys be provided the Twitter handles of any future jurors was filed because it came to light that at least one of the jurors in the first trial had been in contact with a journalist through Twitter.

Nurmi and Willmott also filed a motion to allow them to ask individual questions of prospective jurors to assess how much they have already been influenced by media coverage, including a made-for-TV movie with fictionalized scenes.

The movie, for example, suggests that Arias killed Alexander after finding a message from another woman on his phone; that she sent Alexander photos of herself having sex with another man; and that she once followed him into a men’s room in Las Vegas.

None of those incidents took place, but they have been regarded as truth by some movie viewers.

The defense attorneys also asked that live television coverage be prohibited during the retrial, citing the fact that the defense attorneys and some defense witnesses were harassed and threatened by people following the trial through those media.

Two witnesses, domestic-violence expert Alyce LaViolette and Patricia Womack, a former friend of Arias’, refused to testify during the sentencing portion of Arias’ first trial and will not participate in the retrial because of threats made against them.

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The Arias publicity has already affected media coverage of two other high-profile murder retrials in Maricopa County Superior Court. The judge in the Johnathan Doody temple-murder retrial banned TV cameras in the courtroom last week after one local station accidentally broadcast the faces of jurors sitting in the jury box, which is prohibited by law in Arizona.

And the judge in the Debra Milke murder retrial does not allow the use of electronic devices in her courtroom, which means that there can be no real-time coverage via social media.

Arizona law, however, generally comes down on the side of the media, especially regarding cameras in the courtroom.

“No case in Maricopa County in recent memory has attracted more interest than the Arias trial,” said David Bodney, a First Amendment attorney who represents The Arizona Republic, 12 News and other media outlets. “The defendant’s attempt to ban camera coverage would effectively deprive the public the opportunity to observe the sentencing phase of this case. A viewer blackout would thwart the public’s ability to follow the Arias trial to its conclusion without any corresponding benefit to the parties or the process.”

CLICK HERE TO READ THE MOTION, FILED TUESDAY (10 page PDF)

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WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.

NEVER DOUBT IT FOR ONE SECOND.

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Yesterday’s highlights + Alyce LaViolette’s interview

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Here’s a 47 second overview of Jodi’s 60 second hearing from yesterday – where another hearing was scheduled for September 16th. Yawn…

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I’m also including Alyce LaViolette’s full interview, without the BS commentary that followed it:

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NEVER DOUBT IT FOR ONE SECOND.

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Here’s what we know so far…

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The result of this morning’s AZ State Circus hearing was that there’ll be another hearing on September 16th.

Following on from all of that, here’s a quick rundown on what we know so far…

* We know the infamous shoe print in the bathroom wasn’t put there by TA or Jodi,

* We know Zach Billings actually knows way more than he’s prepared to admit to,

* We know TA’s inbred meth-head family are both retarded and very bad actors,

* We know the original jurors were watching a different trial to everyone else,

* We know Dirty Sanchez never produced any evidence to prove pre-meditation,

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* We know that none of the pedo-huggers have ever been subject to domestic violence,

* We know what Chris & Sky Hughes are,

* We know the world is a far better place without TA – see proof below…

Justice for Travis has been served - Jodi Arias Is Innocent-com

* We know the only DP the haters are gonna end up with is this one,

* We know both the State’s “star witnesses” repeatedly lied under oath, (and that they couldn’t even find their own ass with both hands),

* We know the haters should be prohibited from reproducing (by way of mandatory terminations),

* We know this trial was a grossly overcharged self-defense case,

* We know Jodi is awesome and always will be,

* We know WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for Justice for Jodi…

Ani’t that the truth.

What else do we know?

SJ
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We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

A post-allocution reminder from May 21st

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With the AZ State Circus returning to town this coming Monday (8/26), here’s a replay of Jodi’s  full post-allocution pre-sentencing interview with ABC 15 from May 21st:

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Remember…

We are here for the long haul.

We are proud to stand behind and support Jodi Arias.

Always have done.

Always will do.

Nothing will ever change that.

WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.

NEVER DOUBT IT FOR ONE SECOND.

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SJ
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We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

Bill Montgomery Opposes Wrongful Conviction Ethics Rule

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Check out the info below from the Phoenix New Times blog.

It relates to Bill Montgomery’s ongoing attempts to oppose rulings that would basically force prosecutors to reveal evidence of wrongful convictions… of which Arizona has more that its fair share.

Why are we not surprised?

Here’s the article:

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“As Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery fights to keep Debra Milke behind bars pending a retrial on her overturned murder conviction, he also is fighting a proposed rule to the State Bar of Arizona that would require prosecutors to act on new evidence of a wrongful conviction.

For the past two years, the Arizona Justice Project has petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court to change the State Bar of Arizona’s ethics rules, adding a provision based on the American Bar Association’s Ethical Rule 3.8.

The ABA’s rule states that if a prosecutor discovers “new, credible, and material evidence” of a wrongful conviction, he or she must disclose the evidence to the defendant and “undertake further investigation or make reasonable efforts to cause an investigation, to determine whether the defendant was convicted of an offense that the defendant did not commit.”

In a county that has given us the wrongful murder conviction of Ray Krone, the extra-constitutional antics of disbarred former county attorney Andrew Thomas, and now the overturned conviction of Debra Milke, whose still-warm spot on death row was secured via the testimony of a Phoenix Police Detective with a long history of lying and abuse of authority, a rule such as this would seem a no-brainer.

But not to Montgomery, who still wants his prosecutors to have the ability to hide the football after a conviction without fear of sanction by the state Bar.

In a comment to the court penned by Mark Faull, Monty’s chief deputy, Faull argues that these “new obligations” would be “confusing and burdensome” and that there is “no convincing evidence that Arizona has a ‘problem’ of wrongful convictions” or that “prosecutors have failed to take corrective action when appropriate.”

This proves conclusively that at least some prosecutors come from an imaginary planet where unethical behavior by their tribe does not exist.

By way of rebuttal, Larry Hammond of Arizona Justice Project points to “a recent study of Arizona appellate opinions between just 2004 and 2008 [that] revealed 20 cases of prosecutorial misconduct.”

Indeed, the National Registry of Exonerations lists 12 Arizona convictions dating back to 1977, including Krone’s, where those convicted were exonerated.

Hammond and the other petitioners note some Arizona cases in one filing, where they argue that the court should include the ABA’s requirement that the prosecutor investigate any new evidence.

Prosecutors already are required to turn over exculpatory material to the defense during a trial, so why not after conviction?

Because prosecutors, on the whole, do not like to relinquish a victory.

But it seems particularly rich that Montgomery would be opposing such a rule while looking to hang Debra Milke, for the second time, on the testimony of a deceitful cop.

And yet, Montgomery and other prosecutors want us all to trust that they would never hide the football from the defense, particularly when the accused’s life hangs in the balance…”

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Jodi’s latest Tweets

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Check out the latest tweets (and a re-tweet) posted on Jodi’s Twitter account overnight:

Jodi Arias latest twitter messages, 8-6-2013

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And this is an interesting tweet I’m including from Michael Kiefer’s account. It relates to the State v Trent C Benson case, the specifics of which you can find on page 12 (#43) of this PDF document…

Michael Kiefer tweet

Remember…

WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.

Never question it.

Never doubt it.

SJ
Team Jodi

If you would like to help Jodi directly by way of a financial donation via check or PayPal, click here (or click the Team Jodi link below) for further details.

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Dr. Geffner: Decimation of The State’s Case [by Jade]

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Check out the post below. It was based around a post made by Jade prior to the in initial verdict in May, but for some reason it never actually got posted. Interesting reading to say the least, and still applicable.

Here it is:

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“All roads lead back to Dr. Geffner. You can bet the term dura mater is reverberating around that room.

It was the epicenter that the entire case for Martinez rested on. Without convincing the jury beyond a shadow of a doubt that a 25 caliber bullet above the right eye had the immediate effect of rendering Alexander helpless, the entire case fell apart for disproving self defense. Now at the very end of the case, it’s been held up to ridicule. That couldn’t have happened at a better time because the ME repeated over and over three different times on the stand it HAD to go through the brain. The emphasis Jennifer put on it with the question ‘do you know how serious this case is’ riveted that ME’s incompetence or deliberate lie in their brains.

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Now all the other things that possibly seemed so unlikely can much more logically fall into place as Jodi described it. Once they can accept the premise of the POSSIBILITY of Alexander fighting, the self defense is automatic.

It then morphs right into why? And the second prong, domestic violence, i.e having the same man’s hands around her neck that caused the shutoff of oxygen to her brain once before is now not able to laughed at by any juror who tries to dismiss it and argue it. Now it is very real that he was trying to get on top of her just as she described on June 4th to do again. The flashback is now very believable and again it was Dr. Geffner who pulverized the only witness who tried to indemnify it as the preformed mentality of a violent and dangerous woman.

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The twelve in there are mostly seniors. Seniors have life experiences, they have raised their own families. They are envisioning some of their sons or daughters being abused in the manner they heard on the tapes and the texts and the emails. They are realizing these weak inferences don’t add up and they have seen the sham attempted to be perpetrated on them by a rabid bloodthirsty egomaniac that I bet most of them couldn’t stand.

It had to be made clear to them when it was laid out like a road map in Nurmi’s closing how common sense will tell them that to believe the hyperbole Martinez pleaded with them to construe as premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt, not only didn’t meet that standard, it should be an insult to their intelligence.

There is a lot of material those folks are going over and any that may be pro prosecution in there is not having an easy time convincing those who are not I can assure you of that. I had said from midway in the trial this is no Simpson jury. There are some very bright people who are pointing out many of the same things we have for months. But now, with what I had said all along about this amateur ME being eviscerated if only a top coroner expert had been able to testify, it was all done by the one person who came at the final hour, decimated the State’s case and shined the spotlight on the real murderers.

I believe we will see that, although this isn’t truly a jury of Jodi’s peers in age, it will be a jury where Martinez will not like what he hears. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving prick.”

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Thanks to Jade for the post!

Remember…

WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.

Never question it.

Never doubt it.

SJ
Team Jodi

If you would like to help Jodi directly by way of a financial donation via check or PayPal, click here (or click the Team Jodi link below) for further details.

We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

The Tainted Jury in the Jodi Arias Trial (video 1)

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Check out the first in a series of movies highlighting all the errors, irregularities and associated douchebaggery regarding Jodi’s trial.

You can also click here to watch the video in YouTube.

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Thanks to MB for producing the video!

Remember…

WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.

Never question it.

Never doubt it.

Leave your comments below…

SJ
Team Jodi

If you would like to help Jodi by way of a financial donation via check or PayPal, click the Team Jodi link below for further details. All donations go directly to the Arias family…

We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

Motion in Limine to Preclude Certain Testimony (from June 2011)

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Check out the document listed below.

It’s the “Motion in Limine to Preclude Certain Testimony” document filed June 27th 2011.

It was obviously Martinez’ initial attempt to stop any credible evidence of the verbal & physical abuse TA subjected Jodi to — (and TA’s pedophile-related antics) — to be relayed in court by Dr Richard Samuels.

*** CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL DOCUMENT (12 Page PDF) ***

Excerpts:

“Defense experts should be precluded from testifying that defendant acted without premeditation, impulsively, fearfully or other similarly descriptive terms.”

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“Defense experts should be precluded from testifying that the victim was “hypersexual”, had paraphilia, pedophilia or similar conditions or tendencies.”

And this from the Conclusion:

“Whether defendant acted with premeditation or in self-defense or was fearful when the crime occurred are not proper subjects of expert testimony and should be precluded.”

*** CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL DOCUMENT (12 Page PDF) ***

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Remember — WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS.

Never question it.

Never doubt it.

Leave your comments below…

SJ
Team Jodi

If you would like to help Jodi by way of a financial donation via check or PayPal, click the Team Jodi link below for further details. All donations go directly to the Arias family…

We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

Judge Pickles — going far, getting nowhere…

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Following yesterday’s brief yet predictably uneventful hearing at the AZ State circus, here’s how Judge Pickles attempted to summarize everything:

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Make of it what you will.

Remember (just in case you forgot) — WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS.

Leave your comments below…

SJ
Team Jodi

If you would like to help Jodi by way of a financial donation via check or PayPal, click the Team Jodi link below for further details. All donations go directly to the Arias family…

We Are Team Jodi ---- And We Will Be Victorious!

 

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