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He here in exhibit 162, do you remember dragging him across the floor? >> no. >> you say you have memory problems, but it depends on the circumstance, right? >> thats right. >> and give me the factors. i dont want to know about the specific circumstance. what factors influence your having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling at me or someone like travis doing the same. >> so that affects your memory, right. >> it makes my brain scramble. >> so youre sayi...

He here in exhibit 162, do you remember dragging him across the floor? >> no. >> you say you have memory problems, but it depends on the circumstance, right? >> thats right. >> and give me the factors. i dont want to know about the specific circumstance. what factors influence your having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling at me or someone like travis doing the same. >> so that affects your memory, right. >> it makes my brain scramble. >> so youre sayi...

>> take a look at exhibit 413. >> the prosecutor brought out a photo of jodi with her sister taken after she said the injury occurred. >> maam, this was also taken according to your testimony on may 15th. lets take a look at that of 2008. thats a picture of your left hand, isnt it? >> yes. >> you dont have a bent finger here in exhibit 453, do you? >> my finger is bent there. >> youre saying your finger is bent there? >> yes. >> it was a direct shot at jodis credibility and her latest story of p...

That their memory can be great, book ended around the incident itself, and that they go into some sort of trauma. that is how theyre going to explain it. that is what the jury is going to be told. >> one reason we have a jury system -- >> youre right. >> the jury system can apply common sense. if you have a memory problem that is purely convenient, that you dont remember stuff that is bad for you but you remember stuff thats good for you legally -- >> and you never told anybody about your memory...

Reached back and found a 25 caliber weapon that nobody else knew about. he says also that he had a holster for it, but when police searched, they found no ammunition, no weapon, no holster, nothing. i mean, her story doesnt hold together. and theyre testing her memory on that. and suddenly, she cant recall any of the critical facts around the time of the murder. >> the only problem with that is that theyre going to explain all of that when they the defense calls the next witness. theyre going to...

And suddenly, she cant recall any of the critical facts around the time of the murder. >> the only problem with that is that theyre going to explain all of that when they the defense calls the next witness. theyre going to have somebody just like prosecutors do all the time who is going to come up and say that this is standard operating procedure with a battered woman. that their memory can be great, book ended around the incident itself, and that they go into some sort of trauma. that is how th...

>> one reason we have a jury system -- >> youre right. >> the jury system can apply common sense. if you have a memory problem that is purely convenient, that you dont remember stuff that is bad for you but you remember stuff thats good for you legally -- >> and you never told anybody about your memory problem. >> you can call all the experts you want. >> the expert will get up there. i have had more than a couple trials where the expert will get up and i had it where the prosecution will call b...

Bad for you but you remember stuff thats good for you legally -- >> and you never told anybody about your memory problem. >> you can call all the experts you want. >> the expert will get up there. i have had more than a couple trials where the expert will get up and i had it where the prosecution will call because theres been cross-examination on somebody, why do you remember this now? why didnt you tell anybody? and theyre going to say, that is perfectly logical and rational for a psychiatric s...

Execute her. that has to be the defense strategy. >> toobin, toobin, i hardly believe close-up shots of her behind is endearing her to this jury. the longer shes up there, the more they keep showing it, please. im numb from those shots. >> dont you think that after -- or taking this thing through friday, if that was the strategy, you had accomplished it, why go into the final week? at a certain point some of those jurors are saying enough is enough. >> she also said today that basically any time...

Until she was 14, she says, when she lived at home. then for all of those years between 14 till the time she met travis alexander, she didnt have a memory problem. now its reoccurring on cross-examination. >> they were also sort of alleging this child porn or child -- interest in child sex against travis alexander. i mean, are they just trying to kind of smear him as much as possible? >> theyre trying to smear the victim as if he somehow brought this on himself. the defense here, to the extent t...