As the trial opened on Jan, 2, prosecutors describing Alexander as a "good man," who was seduced and then stalked by Arias, and killed by her in a jealous rage when she learned he was dating other women. In June , Alexander and Arias split up, though they maintained a sexual relationship.
Defense attorney Jennifer Wilmot said there was another reality — that Arias was Alexander's "dirty little secret. In April Arias had had enough, according her defense team, and moved back to California. Wilmot said it wasn't Arias who roped Alexander back in, it was actually Alexander who couldn't let her go, and he kept pressuring her to stay in contact with him.
She slit his throat as a reward for being a good man. Willmont maintains that her client was abused and controlled by Alexander, who she claims was a sexual deviant.
Willmott showed the jury a t-shirt she says he made Arias wear, with lettering that says "Travis Alexander's. They say Arias was literally trying to wash away the evidence. Found on the camera's memory card were pictures of their final sexual encounter, shots of Alexander in the shower seconds before he was killed and pictures that appeared to be taken accidently when the camera was dropped.
One of the images shows Alexander's bloody body, and another shows Arias actually dragging his body across the ground. She entered a not guilty plea at her arraignment on Sept. In a series of jailhouse interviews since her arrest, Arias repeatedly changed her story. First she denied being at Alexander's house the night of the murder, but two weeks later, she told the TV show "Inside Edition" she was there.
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My Account Sign Out. They asked point-blank how they were to tell when Arias was lying and when she wasn't. The prosecutor in the Jodi Arias murder trial continued his cross-examination of Richard Samuels, a defense expert who diagnosed Arias with post-traumatic stress disorder, even accusing the psychologist of having feelings for the murder defendant.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez danced on the edge of outrage in the courtroom, and his TV following loved it. At the end of one day, jurors were called in one by one to be questioned on whether they saw Martinez signing autographs and posing for cameras outside the courthouse.
The dramatic ousting of a juror in the Jodi Arias trial punctuated an otherwise routine day of testimony. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens dismissed Juror 5, who was later identified as Meliha Omanovic, after the defense claimed the woman had made prejudicial comments in front of other jurors.
Alyce LaViolette, a psychologist and expert in domestic abuse, gives a presentation at conferences she calls "Was Snow White a Battered Woman? But prosecutor Juan Martinez had pulled it out of his research and attempted to ridicule the defense witness by forcing the Travis Alexander murder into the story line of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Her name is Meliha Omanovic, she's 38 years old, she's a Bosnian immigrant, and she lives in north Phoenix. And she was surprised at the attention she garnered from the media when she showed up for court two days after she was dismissed. Juror Daniel Gibb is dismissed from the trial. He says he was excused after telling court officials that he was arrested for DUI on April Gasps and sighs pierced the silence in Courtroom 5C when it was announced that the jurors had found Jodi Arias guilty of premeditated murder.
The jury could not reach a unanimous decision about whether to sentence Arias to death. Instead, they split in favor of death. Jodi Arias announced she would represent herself in her upcoming retrial to determine whether she deserves the death penalty.
Judge Sherry Stephens granted Arias' motion to act as her own attorney, as is her right. However, Arias gave up her intent to defend herself in September. Three hundred potential jurors were called to Maricopa County Superior Court to begin screening for the second Jodi Arias trial, this time to determine whether she should be sentenced to death or to life in prison.
Many said they were unable to be fair in their assessment and that they knew too much about the case. It took a month to finalize the selection.
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