Growing concern Putin could be preparing to invade Ukraine. Arias was convicted in and sentenced to life in prison in for killing her ex-boyfriend, year-old Travis Alexander. His body was found -- stabbed, shot in the face and slit in the neck from ear to ear -- in the shower of his Mesa, Arizona, home.
Now 39, Arias appealed her conviction and sentence, arguing partly that trial publicity -- including live media coverage of the proceedings -- and a prosecutor's alleged misconduct deprived her of a fair trial and impartial jury. Jodi Arias is sentenced in as her lawyer, Jennifer Willmott, looks on. In a page ruling and a page memorandum Tuesday, a three-judge panel found, in part:.
Read More. The evidence "would not have permitted any reasonable juror to acquit her of the charged offense. A call seeking comment from one of Arias' attorneys, Cory Engle, was not immediately returned. The trial attracted a national audience riveted by the themes of sex and violence. During 18 days of testimony, Arias admitted shooting Alexander, arguing she did so in self-defense after he lunged at her. Enraged, he picked her up and body slammed her onto the tile floor, screaming at her, she told the jury.
Arias said she ran to his closet to get away from him, but could hear Alexander's footsteps coming after her. She claims she grabbed a gun from his shelf and tried to keep running, but Alexander came after her, she said. I thought that would stop him, but he just kept running. He got like a linebacker. He got low and grabbed my waist, and as he was lunging at me the gun went off.
I didn't mean to shoot. I didn't even think I was holding the trigger," she said. Arias said she believed Alexander was going to kill her. She testified that he drove up to her house, got out of his car and walked up to the porch for oral sex, and then left a few pieces of candy behind and walked away without a word after it was over. Prosecutor Juan Martinez argued with her about how responsible she was for the couple's sex life.
When we're talking about the level of experimentation, it looks like both of you were experimenting together sexually. So when we hear things like, 'I felt like a prostitute,' that's not exactly true, is it? Arias would later testify that she tried to kill herself in prison by taking painkillers to thin her blood and then running a razor over her skin, but stopped short of cutting herself. I wish that suicide was a way out but it is no escape.
Arias has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The change in the mitigating factors could be what is keeping one or all of the jurors confident in their positions. We will continue to speculate based on the length of the deliberation time, the questions the jury asks, the looks on their faces when they take breaks, who it is that takes breaks together, and any other little thing that comes up.
KTAR News on Legally Speaking: Why are the deliberations in the Jodi Arias case taking so long? Mar 3, , AM Updated: Apr 27, , pm. The State v. Jodi Arias jurors finished Day 3 of their deliberations with no verdict.
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