“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, 1863-1952
Does everyone remember the Saturday Night Live skit for “Total Bastard Airlines”? The one where Helen Hunt and David Spade are flight attendants, and as each passenger is getting off the plane, all they can say to each departing person is “Buh-bye!”? That’s kind of how I’m feeling about Jodi Arias right now.
The result of the Jodi Arias sentencing hearing – life in prison without the possibility of parole– was widely expected. In fact, the universal conclusion of experienced lawyers and trial-watchers everywhere was Jodi’s chances of meeting with a parole board after 25 years were somewhere between slim and none, and Slim had already left town.
This view must not have been lost on Arias, since when her turn came to address the court and express remorse, instead of begging for forgiveness, she gave the knife a final twist: She used this as another opportunity to further the threadbare narrative that she was a victim, that Travis Alexander was an abuser that attacked her. She even stooped as low as to blame some of her woes on Travis’s grieving family.
Buh-Bye.
As if all of this wasn’t bad enough (and it was), Jodi even stated on the record, in open court that Travis was conscious when she administered the fatal knife wounds. (But wait, I thought she testified in court that she couldn’t recall this, since she was in a fog…)
Buh-bye.
And at the end of it all, Judge Sherry Stephens had no anger in her voice, just made her record about how the factors of aggravation outweighed any factors of mitigation, and sentenced Arias to life in prison.
Buh-bye.
Now I feel a little bit like a Times Square cleaning crew on the morning of January 1st, cleaning up in the quiet aftermath emptiness following a big event.
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