I heard on CNN that they deliberated for 55 mins and went home for the weekend. So Monday will likely be the first day of real work. Golly I hope they don't go on for weeks - we'll all be wrecks if they do. If they call this manslaughter or 2nd degree, it's a win for her and she'll walk in time. I doubt they will give her the death penalty as only 4 women in AZ have ever been so sentenced but if they'll just put her away for a long, long, long time, she can rot in jail singing in prison Christmas contests, adding to her manifesto, drawing and eating bad bologna sandwiches for dinner knowing she's decades of nothing but that severely limited and unchanging, repetitive existence.

It doesn't seem right that they just went home. Get it done with and I am scared the death penalty won't happen. I would love for that so she could sit in a small cell away from others and not able to carry on the way she loves to do. What a long and terrible ordeal this has been for the Alexander family. My heart breaks for them and also for Jodie's family...they didn't commit a crime...they are victims too. I hope, once Monday comes, that they get on with a verdict...the sooner the better!

I can't blame them too much. They've had months of this endless crud while the defense drug this out forever into a months long trial that should have gone 6 weeks and then that horrible marathon Wednesday just sitting in those chairs for hours and hours with only a few breaks. Sitting is one of the hardest things in the world on the back and butts. Bet they are plain tired. They have heard and seen terrible things and hours of boring boring testimony. I imagine they're brains are scrambled. I'd want to go home, decompress and rest and start hard deliberations Monday. You never can tell, they could have take a vote and 2 or 3 members are for a not guilty right now. The others realized they weren't going to change any minds tonight tired and done in, a long, long week on their backs and just wanted out of there. They've invested months of their lives to this and probably want to try to get this right.

I am placing my bets on murder in the first and death.

I’ve got to admit I feel a little bad for Nurmi, he tried to quit the case 4 times even left the public defender’s office and opened up his own practice, (apparently he would rather defend child molesters than Jodi :p). They made him take the case, and I think he tried to get her to take a temporary insanity defense, but that would have made her have to admit to some responsibility and Jodi just can’t do that, and also the fact that Travis didn’t want her anymore. She has a vision of herself that Travis worshipped her, (although abused her :rolleyes:) she wanted to break off the relationship, not Travis. I really don’t think her fragile ego can permit her to accept the truth. I had to laugh when he said something about you don’t have to like Jodi, I don’t even like her 9 out of 10 days. I really thought that was a mistake, it goes against their defense of Jodi being a soft spoken, people pleaser, who just wanted to make Travis happy. I’ve heard that Willmott jumped at the case, thinking it would be good for her career, I wonder if that will work out for her?

I cannot imagine anyone wanting to hire her after her performance. I am less than impressed.

I heard on the news that Wilmott had gotten some death threats - so, I'm guessing she regrets taking on this case....?
I haven't been too impressed with her either!!
Her style got on my nerves.
I think anyone associated with Jodi's defense is going to regret that association!
Has anyone heard how LaViolette is doing? Last I heard people were attacking her on Amazon and she had been in the ER with anxiety/chest pains....
I still am amazed the defense could find anyone to testify on Jodi's behalf!? Although, I heard this morning that 'Jodi supporters' had sent her $2200 this year to buy snacks and toiletries in prison...? Jodi has requested that all donations going forward be sent to her mothers address ....I'm guessing Jodi is thinking she's gonna get to move home???
Brother....

I heard on CNN or HLN that so far this case has soaked the good citizens and taxpayers of Arizona to the tune of 2 million dollars! Can that possibly be true? In a person who confessed to the crime?

Wow, this really makes me angry. In some ways, I wished she hadn't confessed and just stayed with her story, "I wasn't there, and I have the gas receipts to prove it!" :D

I think something happened with LaViolette....perhaps she got nailed for lying about testifying for men? That was a pure a$$ fib on her part. I believe she was in the Judge's chambers the next day??

I also wonder if Willmott did get nailed for that b**** word in court.

These things would be kept quiet I am thinking so as not to derail this trial.

Nancy, do you get why she tried to return a gas can to the store?

There is a special on 20/20 tonight about the case.

From my understanding LaViolette, did lie, she said one or two times she had testified for men, and other sources say it was zero times. That's one of those "exaggerations" that piss off Juan (and me) and that’s why he was able to call her a liar in his closing arguments, but I agree with you, he didn’t want to make too much of a fuss of it, because it could impeach her testimony and they’d get their mistrial. Maybe after the trial they will do something. It's interesting to note, but women who've been battered seem to be the angriest at her, they say that she's just making their stories harder to believe.

Earlier testimony she said she's very frugal, I think this is actually pretty true of her and I think her story was something like, I didn't use the can, so I returned it. (I’m also pretty sure Juan has proof she filled up three cans, which would be a second lie.) This was a minor lie, but Juan's point was you promised to tell the truth now, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and so even a minor lie means something. Many of the jurors will want to believe she's turned over a new leaf and only lied about killing him, but if everything she says now is the truth, this minor lie proves that you really can't believe anything she says. I think it’s was pretty smart of Juan to pick a point that her lawyers didn’t go over with her and didn’t help her practice. She could of easily said, I can’t remember.

Here's another picture I love.

Frugal? That's absolutely nuts to take back a $13.00 item! But in her case, she couldn't return it because of those 3 receipts all around $5 - $6 for what - 2 gals. of gas and she had put gas in it. I doubt if any store would take it back smelling of gas, even if she washed it.

I heard a woman from California say on HLN that everybody who drives from Cali to Az knows that gas is 80 cents cheaper in Az, the minute one crosses the border the price plummets so there goes the money-saving reason for the gas cans.

She has lied once - enough to impeach her testimony right there if one is a purist. But this woman lied a second time through ???? times - enough to shred her credibility on the stand for anything she says. And inconsistent statements is another reason to impeach the witness. Her testimony is full of inconsistencies. She's about the most impeached witness I've ever seen. Technically, the jury shouldn't believe one thing she says. I don't know how a jury can't find for premeditated murder with the max sentence against her but usually there are one or two in every group of people that need more convincing than others for pre-meditation or have empathy somehow with the defendant in some way, just can't stand to see the State "kill" a woman, are secretly anti-death penalty or just think life is far more of a punishment in the long run. IDK, if you don't max punish people who overkill/slaughter as she did w/out good evidence of any kind giving her any credible justification for it, then you send a powerful message that in some cases, a minute- or two-long slaughter is excused by our society and justice system.

I guarantee you, if she were a man who killed his female lover in this same manner, it would be a done deal - the needle.