after four months of testimony and deliberation we finally have a verdict
in the trial of jodi areas and
we got our i guess she was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of
travis alexander back in june two thousand eight uh... now words still
waiting it's gonna be another couple days another couple weeks as we know
exactly what's going to happen to her but that's what's been released at least
so far i what's your initial reaction to the verdict
out of my initial reaction is that so that her defense put up basically no
information at all as to trying to improve with even any sort of shraddha
evidence that she was actually domestically abused by her al ex
boyfriend
so i think what do you agree with this sentence or not and then whether she was
actually domestically abused for not mean you will never know about whether
she was there not
i think they're still kind of spells trouble for women and future victims of
domestic abuse to discuss fight back
the fact that she had uh...
murdered him and his content is convicted guilty because it's kind of
you there perpetuating a stereotype that women live anne there she didn't she was
a domestically abused and she lied about it of warren that mendini get away with
domestic abuse at least in the court system yet
well to be very regularly well that's life yet so if you haven't been
following this and that'll be the rating thing at least for my commentary for the
christmas story not falling
uh... try to sell tender was stabbed nearly thirty times in china had also
his throat was slit forgive your dear
uh... though one of the relatives of charts chavis alexander said that he was
killed three times over and i think that seems like kind of an understatement
this point
so she has been found guilty
uh... i would like to say at this point
don't know why should care
i mean for the for the sake of the family of travis alexander obviously
they want her to be found guilty of of something
uh... but i have to say that i've never been a fan of these sort of celebrity
trials i understand she was a celebrity before the trial started
but certainly over the course of the near constant twenty-four hour coverage
on a shell and and other networks not to mention today works on every single
minute finding the right here right now
yeah that's you but we are not what is like of who said what going to happen
that's not what you think was she cried wishing i cry
i want to say that
i don't like that as a nation we will be arbitrarily choose
one criminal and one kidnapping and that sort of focus on for three months or six
months
and that's what's important and i would balance out of why i think that's
dangerous um... for the country but do not agree you said you didn't work for
sale that interested now i a lot of them personally interested in this case here
and i'm not less like you said these kind of celebrity trials they get one
out of proportion like this
i do think it's gonna be a little bit of an interesting statement on the death
penalty
and you know states choosing to whether they choose to get back to her or not
i think there is on the right now has only three women on death row
and the last moment actually last woman to actually be executed as back in
nineteen thirty so whether or not she receives the death penalty
it's gonna be more like life in prison for chile queen to sit on death row
forever exactly yet so it's an interesting commentary and that's of the
celebrity nature of that case yeah at all
like that but the fact that we chose this one and i understand what i
understand why we focus on this one because she's kind of attractive it was
a very sexy story involved sex in great detail
like that early on in the testimony that's never was focusing on like how
did they do it where did they do it how many times did they do it
and and obviously the amount of violence that went into the killing of drugs so
tender was by any measure excessive i think
and so it is a way that makes the story a little bit more exciting a little bit
more i guess via msy going by the
the brokerages editor
uh... but but i'm not a fan of this and the reason for that is that
i think they're are very important stories every single day that people
should be following
and when i say that i'm not saying that you can't
have fun stories you can have distractions basically
but this is a other amalgamation of both of them but i wouldn't call a really fun
like he said it's not although i'm not saying it's bus at price and we will
talk on this show about fun stories that are as important as what's gonna happen
syria what you got this area and you cannot write one but i don't like the
story is that pretend to be one but are really the other like i think that what
this is not fun story as you say
but people are falling as entertainment i think you said it's just real reality
tv yeah what people want desperate housewives area like that's what they
want think allie lax on the dance david train scandal back when i happen to have
all the elements you had
you know the military that this access they are having had it all and so that's
just what our country dot i don't think it's right
and i think it's gonna stop here
i will play the devil's advocate i was trying to research i dont typed into
google
why should i care about
and judy areas came up with a request so i guess that there's someone on my diet
can cut action without a totally uh... end of the one explanation of why we
should care that i guess makes sense it's for people who
are shocked by the level of violence and because i want some
wrote consolation or closure but they wanna understand the mind of the
criminal and i totally understand that maybe they're following
uh... the the proceedings because they think they'll get
some some sort of look into the inner workings of a criminal mind
but it is for it
don't follow this case by a book on the the
i guess the psychology of criminals and you learn way more it it may be a long
weekend to read and i think that in the end of the better