Page 151 - Abuser News Today

Trial a day of the prosecutor tried to establish the victim was afraid of arias before his death. arias admits to killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander but claims she was the victim of domestic abuse. it was all in self-defense. the prosecutor, juan martinez claims alexander was afraid of arias asking the psychotherapyist if arias was the real abuser. >> it does appear the person who was the perpetrator, the abuser, in this relationship, was the defendant, right? >> not at all. rick: meantim...

Since the system has been in place. you know, the nra says criminals wont go through it. 2 million people have gone to buy a gun, gone through a background check and been rejected because theyre felons. because they have a serious mental problem. because they fall in the category of an abuser. theyre incompetent to own a weapon. you tell me that 40% of the people who buy their guns somewhere else dont need a background check when the other 60% do? that none of these people in the 40% are felons?...

Now cross-examining the defense witness i guess the fireworks are back. >> you cant make this stuff stuff up. today the prosecution surprisingly had a chance to cross-examinen before the day was over. because no court on fry does. keep it until the end of the day the jury would have to go home for the weekend and contemplate what they heard the last four days that travis alexander was a mental abuser according to this witness. the defense ended their questioning allowed the prosecutor to cross-e...

In some ways does this kind of remind you the old menendez brothers, gee, dad abused us and nobody, not even the jury ever bought that? here we are 14 weeks into this trial and there is not a single piece of physical evidence that has been produced to show that travis alexander was really an abuser. this witness that we have on the stand now testifying about emails where travis was a flirt an was flirting with other women. i mean, this is obviously a smokescreen, and now we have this stunning vi...

Emails and interviewing jodi for 44 hours that she was basically abused by travis alexander mentally and she is getting into the physical part again. this is direct examination by the defense team. we are waiting the time when the prosecutor gets his chance to cross-examine her. that is when the fireworks happens inside the courtroom. a lot of stuff going on you a juror dismissed, the final defense witness and more video coming out of her family being interviewed in 2008 and more video throughou...

>> right. >> someone who is abusive has wonderful traits as well. they are not just an abusive person. they have a thing about them that people love. >> using her expertise she is basing it on emails with jodi arias suggesting that travis alexander was an abuser. these are coming from jodi arias. there is no evidence showing that so far. >> shepard: shooting at fort knox army post in kentucky had the entire post on lockdown moments ago. so far no word on any victims. investigators till us they a...

There, there is really nobody out there thats been able to prove other than jodi arias or say that travis alexander was an abusive guy. it will be interesting to see how this plays forward, more interesting of course is going to be the cross-examination because as we know the prosecutor has been nothing but aggressive and he tore up the last witness so were curious to see what he does with this one. jon: are they actually using travis name and suggesting that he had some kind of a horrible up br...

>> you displayed not only a lack of compassion, but a lack of any moral code. your decisions that night affected countless lives, you were your own abuser through the social media you chose to publish your criminal conduct on. >> reporter: one of the defendants, malik richmond will do one year in juvenile detention, trent mays, two, harris, back to you. >> harris: mike tobin, thank you. three people remain hospitalized after the deadly bus crash involving their college womens lacrosse team. its ...

>> did you kill travis alexander on june 4, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> um, the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> reporter: jodis new defense was self-defense. she claimed that the charming travis, outwardly a devout mormon, was secretly a def yenlt and abuser and that she jodi was a long-time victim who finally snapped when he attacked her. her lawyers said the photos that seemed so damning didnt tell the whole story of what they described as travis physical ass...

Child lying on the floor. despite everything thats happened, the little boy picks himself up and follows his abuser out of the door. when the video gets into the hands of detroit police, they are desperate to find this unknown child and this man. >> it was a gruesome tape to see a little child get beat by a six-foot man. >> officer ben biddle is with detroits child abuse unit. they quickly release the tape to the local media. >> be on the lookout for this man, caught on tape beating and kicking ...