12/15/14 (Retrial) Day 15- murdering someone causes PTSD.

12/15/14

"Killing Travis caused me to have PTSD. How dare he do this to me?
If he was alive, I would stab him all over again"

Sadly, the title of this blog post is not really a joke. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the theory that the defense wants the jury to believe. If I was on the jury- I would give her death just for this BS defense. The defense has their Dr "expert" on the stand. He's going to spend countless days telling us how messed up Jodi is in the head because of....Travis. It's all Travis' fault that Jodi had to kill him.





Court is back in session.
We have Bob Geffner up for the defense. (Remember, he was the guy that spilled his water the during the first trial)

FLUSH.....that's the sound  my career is making right now.

Juan wants notes because he says that last night he received over 100 pages and now he wants interviews because Geffner changed some of his stuff. Then they talk more about the computer hard drive.
Geffner will be on the stand all week. Geffner will probably speak on BP, DV, and PTSD. Geffner is a licensed psychologist and a licensed marriage therapist.

I am not listing all this guy's credentials. He thinks highly of himself. Geffner gets $250 an hour. (There are several people linking other cases on twitter where this guy was discredited)
Willmont- Has an ethics committee ever reprimanded you or cited you? Geffner- No
Willmot- Has your testimony been criticized? Geffner- Well by appellate courts I never knew about. This was a child case and we were asked to evaluate the child and mother and the judge wasn't happy with our findings.
Juan- Objects to judge wasn't happy
Geffner then says that the judge called him a "hired gun" in that other case.

Pretty much

10 minute recess. Geffner is getting questioned outside of the jury.Juan says the Court of Appeals didn't take issue with this judge. This judge did end up resigning.

"I can't wait until it's my turn."

Now Geffner is fixing to testify to all of Jodi's issues. During the first trial he never met Jodi. It's different this time. (Here's the video of the first trial when Juan questioned him LOL)

Let's talk about the validity scale. Geffner says a person has to know what they are doing to give these test.
MMPI-2- This looks at some body's personality. Jodi only took it once. (This is the one Dr. Demarte gave her in 2011) Jodi reported a lot of symptoms. Trauma. Jodi's chart had a peak at bizarre thoughts. Jodi had body issues. Jodi thought people were out to get her. (he brings up Juan as one example) Jodi had demoralization and depression.

FRS scale (measures some body's fears) Jodi's was just a little above normal. It didn't show that Jodi was obsessed or angry. Jodi showed average for following the law (LOL I guess murder is okay then)

Nobody believes this BS. Not even Jodi's mom.

Lunch

Geffner is back up. He says Jodi had elevated partner or relationship distress. She has adjustment stress and PTSD.

This is me following this trial.

Geffner had to rule out if Jodi had an addiction problem or addictive behavior because it was a little above the main line on chart. Jodi had a very low result for ego strength, meaning her self esteem was low. Dominance was very low. Hostility was below average

Jodi's self esteem. Sure...it's lacking

Jodi is showing she's introverted and still has bizarre thoughts showing up on the scales. Geffner says Jodi doesn't act out socially but she feels alienated by others and herself. Jodi has high paranoia.

"I just love it when they talk about me"

Schizophrenia Scales- Hers were high on emotions. She has no control on them and feels alienated by herself and others. She's not shy.
Geffner- Scales indicate significant mental issues with Jodi but no definitive answer yet. It requires additional testing. This test he's talking about now shows Jodi was trying to look good on this test but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Based on this test it doesn't indicate she has a personality disorder but there are red flags.

"Maybe I can just bore the jury into a life sentence"

Next is the trauma test.
Geffner- Jodi has significant trauma symptoms that are more than incarceration related-her PTSD was elevated. 
In 2010 Jodi didn't think her sexual behaviors were dysfunctional but when she retook test in 2011 it was very elevated.

Recess

Geffner wanted to retest Jodi on her symptoms and so he gave her a general timeline to test by. Geffner didn't ask her to go back to 2008 at time of murder -he just wanted a general feel.
Jodi has high levels of suicidal thoughts, intrusive experiences and dissociation. Other symptoms have dropped in levels.

"What time is it? I wonder if I can go ahead and call it a day?"

TSI-2 test- Jodi's trauma and PTSD are still there. He says the DSM says Paranoia and Narcissistic.
Willmont asks if these are mental issues? Yes.

Jodi's new test show -anxiety, low energy and suicidal thoughts, and no support system. Jodi tested below average for aggressive behaviors, hostility, physical aggressiveness, verbal aggressiveness. Jodi is a pleaser. Jodi got a suicide specific test and it showed she doesn't feel like that now. It was at time of murder and after arrest.

Court is over for the day.