Travis Alexander, the ex-boyfriend Jodi Arias is charged with murdering, was convicted of 2002 theft and misdemeanor battery charges, according to court documents.
UPDATE: According to Jane Velez-Mitchell, Travis Alexander spoke of being a victim of identity fraud when he worked as a motivational speaker.
However, Alexander's brother, Dennis Alexander, says he was the one who actually committed the crime.
"It's something that I am ashamed of," Dennis Alexander told The Huffington Post. "I have been clean for almost 10 years and it's something Travis forgave me for a long time ago. He was a righteous guy and he never did anything wrong. It was all me. It was my doing. Travis was a gentleman. The furthest thing he would ever do is any sort of crime."
The charges, noted in California court documents obtained by The Huffington Post, accuse Travis Alexander of assaulting a store security guard in 2002, six years before he was slain in his Mesa, Ariz., home. Alexander was eventually convicted of the charges and sentenced to probation, according to his lawyer.
A key element of Arias? murder defense has been her claim that Alexander was abusive. No evidence has been presented in the trial that suggests Alexander had any criminal history.
Arias, 32, is accused of shooting Alexander in the head, stabbing him 27 times and cutting his throat from ear to ear on June 4, 2008. She claims the killing was self-defense and could face the death penalty if convicted. The prosecution contends that Arias killed Alexander in a jealous rage.
Travis Alexander was 24 when he was charged with shoplifting and scuffling with a security guard at a Stater Brothers supermarket in his hometown of Riverside, Calif., in March 2002. Alexander was 30 when he was killed.
Alexander ?did willfully and unlawfully steal and take personal merchandise? valued at less than $400 from the merchant, according to the criminal complaint filed in Superior Court of California. He "wilfully and unlawfully use[d] force and violence" against a man named Fred Lopez, according to the complaint.
Lopez worked for Stater Brothers at the time, a store spokesperson said. He hasn't worked there in about 10 years and efforts by HuffPost to contact him were unsuccessful.
The public defender who represented Alexander had incomplete records from the case, but recalled that Alexander got caught trying to steal an item valued at less than $50. Lopez tried to stop Alexander, and a physical altercation ensued, lawyer Debra Rice said.
"It looks like he was convicted of both of them -- the battery and the shoplifting," Rice told The Huffington Post. "That was 11 years ago, so I really don't remember much other than what I am looking up" in computer records. Rice added, "It looks like he shoplifted something and Lopez tried to stop him from taking it. It was a felony battery when he was arrested, and then it was filed [in court] as a misdemeanor."
Alexander was sentenced to three years' probation. Court documents said Alexander failed to comply with a court order in March 2002 to submit a financial disclosure form to the court.
Grover Trask, the former district attorney who prosecuted the case in Riverside, said he was unable to remember any details.
However, according to Travis Alexander's brother, he was the one who actually committed the crime.
Travis Alexander's brother, Dennis Alexander, told HuffPost that Travis Alexander was not involved in the theft and battery. Dennis Alexander said he committed the crime and falsely identified himself to arresting police officers as Travis Alexander.
"That was a time in my life when I was addicted to drugs and was a real mess," Dennis Alexander said. "I was stealing Sudafed, an ingredient in manufacturing methamphetamines."
Dennis Alexander said he was attempting to leave the store when he was approached by a security guard. "They tackled me and beat me up pretty good," he said. "I was already on parole and would have went to prison, so I used Travis' name and information. When they arrested me, they fingerprinted me and put it in the computer and found out who I was. They sent me to prison for a parole violation."
The court documents and Rice's public defender records indicate the case made it through court in Travis Alexander's name.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...?utm_hp_ref=tw
Originally Posted by Ian 1
Good on you for picking up on this. It's got two important words that shows what an inept and manipulative liar Jodi Arias is--REMEMBER and RECALL. Anybody who has ever taken an acting class is taught a concept called 'Emotional Recall' - reaching back into your rational memory to 'remember' events in your life in order to (irrationally) 'recall' the emotions you felt at that particular time. Then, the actor utilizes that Emotional Recall to project what the character is feeling at that moment in the drama. e.g. If the character is supposed to be happy at that moment, you reach back into your own memory of events in your life to re-live happy moments/memories, (your daddy pushing you on a swing when you were a kid, etc.) that triggers and recalls the emotion. We all experience what we refer to as 'flashbacks.' You can be hanging on a subway strap when, suddenly, a memory of an event comes to you involuntarily. First you get the memory and then you get the emotion/feeling--in that order--(and then you groan out loud and everybody looks around for your attendant). Conversely, you can't get the emotion/feeling without the memory. You can't 'remember emotions, Judge' you can only remember events. You can't recall emotions unless you remember exactly the event that brought them on. The more vivid the memory, the more heightened the emotion! (e.g. I remember my Dad's Funeral. It made me feel sad). Right there, Jodi Arias failed acting 101. She's trying to tell us, 'I can't remember killing Travis Alexander, I can only remember how I felt while I was doing it." Pure deception! I hope the Jury catches on. How the hell can they believe that Jodi Arias remembers what she felt, when virtually everything in her demeanor and what she says and what she writes, reveals that she actually remembers everything but doesn't feel anything about Travis Alexander except petulant resentment and homicidal rage.
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