Jodi Arias on the stand Tuesday in her murder trial. Photo credit: Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic/Reuters
She is one defendant who on the stand manages to be disturbing, pathetic and boring, and she has logged a whopping 16 days on the stand. She can test your sanity with her monotone voice and her convenient forgetfulness.
The Casey Anthony case was far easier to watch because Anthony so rarely talked, and the focus was on the attorneys.
But Arias is the star of her trial, and I find the marathon coverage on HLN a chore to sit through. I find what I need to know in ABC’s concise, next-day coverage on “Good Morning America.”
The Arias trial took a turn Wednesday when the judge read jurors’ questions to the defendant, who is charged with murdering former boyfriend Travis Alexander. ABC’s Ryan Owens said the jurors’ questions were “absolutely fascinating to watch.”
Those questions supply clues to the jury’s thinking: “Were you mad at Travis while you were stabbing him?” “Why didn’t you call 911?” “Did you ever see a doctor for your memory issue?”
“Arias confidently answered every question,” Owens said.
ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams marveled, “Arias … doesn’t slip up. She never gets rattled.”
Abrams found the jurors’ questions on the whole were tough and suggested they were skeptical of Arias. But he added, “There are some questions that were asked that could give her hope that one or two of the jurors are accepting her account, which again, a hung jury would be a huge win for Jodi Arias.”
Arias may never get rattled, but she can certainly rattle the viewer. I find the less I see of her, the happier I am. Too much TV violence isn’t good; I’m thinking too much Jodi Arias isn’t good, either.