Alyce LaViolette a domestic violence expert responds to a question from Prosecutor Juan Martinez during cross examination during the Jodi Arias trial. Arias is on trial for the killing of Travis Alexander, in Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in Psychotherapist Alyce LaViolette has been testifying for more than a week about her conclusion that Arias was a victim of physical and emotional abuse.
Authorities say Arias planned the attack. She initially denied involvement then blamed it on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said it was self-defense.
Martinez has been using electronic communications between Alexander and another woman to illustrate that fear. The prosecutor said in the exchange, Alexander says Arias has been stalking him. He claimed that Willmott was making editorial comments with each objection. The Christmas tree incident eventually came in; the tire-slashing did not.
Nor did Martinez's aim to take a statement from Laviolette's notes about Arias once squeezing a pet cat and turn it into an allegation that she tortured animals. On April 15, during a closed hearing attended only by three of Alexander's siblings, Nurmi talked about a motion for mistrial on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct, based on Martinez being seen on TV signing autographs and posing for photos with his fans.
Nurmi claimed that Martinez had badgered another witness, and he played an audio recording, hoping to convince the judge. Martinez alleged that LaViolette had violated California regulations governing family therapists with her testimony.
He wanted Stephens to order that LaViolette return from California to undergo further cross-examination. Then, in the same hearing, they discussed a bizarre piece of evidence that Nurmi tried to introduce to the jury, specifically, an enlargement of Alexander's eye from a photo shot minutes before he was attacked that purportedly showed the shape of the person who shot the photo. Stephens precluded the evidence, but got Martinez to stipulate that the person reflected on Alexander's retina was not holding a weapon in her hands.
Advantage: Martinez. Moments later, Willmott asked the judge to make Martinez reveal which witnesses he intended to call during his rebuttal. Attorneys are supposed to disclose such information beforehand.
Martinez did as he was asked. Facebook Twitter Email. What you didn't hear in Jodi Arias trial. Michael Kiefer The Arizona Republic. LaViolette, who spent a career counseling aggressive people, did not back down. Since Martinez began cross-examining LaViolette late last week, the two have traded insults like a pair of boxers throwing kidney punches in the clinch. The slugfest was a stalemate, and trial watchers saw what they wanted to see: Martinez bobbing and weaving with rapid-fire questions that he demanded be answered by yes or no; LaViolette standing her ground and occasionally stinging Martinez with jabs like, "If you were in my group, Mr.
Martinez, I would ask you to take a time out. One of LaViolette's friends, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said that LaViolette was getting countless angry phone calls and e-mails at her own office in Long Beach, at least one of which was serious enough that her colleagues contacted police. The friend said that the stress of the harassment had driven LaViolette to the emergency room last weekend for anxiety attacks and palpitation.
Fields, the retired judge said, "If it's just the general public and there's no intention by the prosecution , then there's nothing to be done about it. Fields thought one solution would be to turn off the TV cameras.
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