[quote author=Msmichie link=topic=16212.msg1320897#msg1320897 date=1246520560]
Thank you.
I have read this entire thread and mainly just been lurking. I live here in Arizona, and I don't know why this case has caught my attention, but it has.
I understand that Jodi's friends may want to stand by her, the way that friends should. Personally, I think she did it. If she was my friend, I would stand by her as a friend, but wouldn't be screaming that she is innocent. (Unless, as I have seen asked time and time again there is proof that she didn't and is being wrongly accused.)
I have a friend I went to school with, who was high and killed someone. I saw him after he did it, and NO, I didn't know he had done anything. He was as white as a sheet, and could barely sit still. He went home and called another friend and told her what had happened and she called the police. He was arrested, tried and convicted. I wrote him in prison, and when he got out, he wanted to come and see my family. (he was actually good friends with my husband.) I agreed that he could visit, but if he was hardened criminal from being in jail for 12 years, I wanted him out of the house. When he came over, he didn't act like a convict, he grew up and matured. We have never spoken about what he did, but he knew that if I ever felt threatened in anyway that he would be gone from our lives. I actually have two points as to why I told this story, that you can stand by a friend who has done something this horrible. You can also walk away. My friend lost a lot of friends because of his actions. He paid for what he did, and I don't excuse it. But I am not going to sit and judge him either. He has to make his peace with whatever God he recognizes. The second point is that if Jodi did this, she certainly had to be acting different when she met up with her "friend" in Utah. I don't see how she could have acted normal. You take a person's life and it has to affect you.
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Not if you are a psychopath.
I completely understand what you are saying, but there is a difference, imo. I don't know the circumstances of the crime your friend committed, but the fact that he admitted what he did and was only in prison for 12 years makes me think it wasn't a cold-blooded killing. This one was. I'm sorry, but I will never be okay with a friend of mine doing what Jodi is accused of doing to Travis, nor will I stand beside him/her along the way...especially when there is way too much evidence that he/she did it. I would, however, have a hard time dealing with the fact that they aren't the person I always thought they were.