She at one point says she likes to document everything," Baden pointed out. Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "I've always had my camera. It goes everywhere I go. You see Mr. Alexander's head, you see his arm, you see him bleeding profusely," told the court, referring one of Arias' photos from the crime scene. After nine days and 20 witnesses, Martinez believed his case against Jodi Arias was ironclad. Now, despite all the lies and deceitful behavior that the court has heard, the defense would have to convince the jury that on the day Travis died, it was actually Jodi Arias who was the victim.
Even in jail awaiting trial, Jodi Arias had little trouble keeping herself in the spotlight and caught the attention of the media, when she won a jailhouse Christmas singing competition. And when the defense finally presented its case, Arias took the spotlight again, taking the stand to tell her unbelievable story of self-defense. Among those listening were her mother, her aunt and Travis's family:. Jodi Arias: The simple answer is that he attacked me and -- I defended myself.
But according to trial lawyer Linda Kenney Baden, putting a defendant like Jodi Arias on the stand can be extremely problematic. And that jury is always going to go back to what Jodi said. Jodi Arias I'm taking pictures of him. We were trying out different poses.
And when I went to delete the photos -- as I moved the -- the camera, it slipped out of my hand. Kirk Nurmi Jodi Arias: Travis flipped out And he stepped out of the shower And he body slammed me again -- on the tile. Jodi Arias: I remembered where he kept a gun, so I grabbed it.
He was chasing me. I turned around we were in the middle of the bathroom I pointed it at him with both of my hands. I thought that would stop him, but he just kept running I didn't even think I was holding the trigger I was just pointing it at him I didn't even know that I shot him. It just went off and after I broke away from him Arias' memory of how Travis allegedly attacked her was striking. And yet, she was at a loss for words when asked to explain her actions:.
Kirk Nurmi: Once you broke away from him, what do you remember? Kirk Nurmi: Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander? Jodi Arias: [Crying] I have no memory of stabbing him. Kirk Nurmi: Do you remember Jodi Arias: No. I just remember screaming. I don't remember anything after that. There are many people that never remember the actual events," Dr. Richard Samuels testified. To help the jury understand why Arias had trouble remembering, the defense called Samuels, a clinical psychologist, who tested Jodi for PTSD.
Samuels concluded that Arias suffered amnesia from the trauma of the attack:. Richard Samuels And its clear from the research a large percentage of individuals who are in such settings do not remember or have cloudy and foggy memories of what has transpired.
Juan Martinez: How many hours did you spend with her? But the prosecution insisted that Samuels' diagnosis was flawed, because when he examined Arias three years ago, she still maintained the intruder story:. Juan Martinez: You Richard Samuels: Perhaps I should have re-administered that test. Stuart Kleinman, a forensic psychiatrist and consultant for "48 Hours", explained. Jodi Arias claims she not only has no memory of stabbing Travis more than two dozen times and slitting his throat, but she also has no memory of altering the scene.
It wasn't until after driving hundreds of miles into the desert that her mental fog apparently lifted and she suddenly realized she had done something horribly wrong:. Jodi Arias crying : I didn't know but I didn't think he was.
I was scared. And I couldn't imagine calling and telling them what I had just done. If someone after a crime engages in behavior which Juan Martinez: You did grant interviews to people from "48 Hours", didn't you? Juan Martinez: There were two interviews right? Martinez hoped that by exposing Arias as a liar, he would discredit her with the jury and once again presented clips from her "48 Hours" interviews:.
Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court: "Travis' family deserves to know what happened. And because I may be the only person that will ever be able to say what happened that day. I wrote them a letter. Juan Martinez: In that letter, you actually tell the family that the people that did it were this male and this female, right?
Juan Martinez: So you lied to them, didn't you? Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court: "When you asked me if I was angry and outraged. I'm more angry and outraged that his life was taken and that he had so much potential.
I almost lost my life as well. Juan Martinez: Nowhere -- in that recitation or in any of the interviews that you gave with "48 Hours" did you ever indicate that you had memory loss, correct?
It takes a certain kind of And Arias displayed that same tenacity during her 18 days on the witness stand. Juan Martinez: You say that you have memory problems but it depends on the circumstance, right? Juan Martinez: What factors influence you're having a memory problem? Jodi Arias: Usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me or someone like Travis doing the same. Throughout the heated cross examination, Martinez vigorously attacked Arias' story:.
Juan Martinez: Ma'am were you crying when you were shooting him? Juan Martinez Were you crying when you were stabbing him?
How 'bout when you cut his throat? Were you crying then? But to save their client's life, the defense tried to destroy the only thing left of Travis Alexander: his reputation. The instances of violence were becoming more frequent and more severe," defense attorney Kirk Nurmi told the court.
Fear, love, sex, lies and dirty little secrets will help you understand I think what happened in those three minutes. For the entire time that Jodi Arias' fate hung in the balance in court, her defense was on a mission to save her life by proving Travis Alexander left Jodi no choice but to defend herself.
She would either live or she would die," defense attorney Jennifer Willmott told the jury. And on June fourth of , it had reached a point of no return," said Willmott.
Jodi Arias now claimed there was a dark side to Travis and that she lied to cover up the truth about domestic abuse in their relationship. It was a challenging defense -- one that, in addition to her story of intruders, Arias may have been considering when she spoke with "48 Hours" just after her arrest.
Maher asked. But Arias testified to several incidents of alleged abuse:. He went to kick me again and I put my hand out And it clipped my hand and hit my finger. Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi even had Arias display her injuries to the jury:. Kirk Nurmi: Could you hold up your hand for us so we could see? Jodi Arias: [Jodi displays a crooked finger to jury]. Jodi Arias: I would've never called the police on Travis. There is no record of Arias reporting this abuse, and his friends, Chris and Sky Hughes, say that is not the Travis they knew.
They couldn't find one person -- that had a story of being abused by Travis. Jodi Arias: I walked in and Travis Jodi Arias: It was a picture of a little boy. He seemed very ashamed with himself. Juan Martinez: You saw him do that? That's a lie, isn't it, ma'am? It's so easy for her to get on the witness stand, as you've seen, and lie.
And this is really the pinnacle. Trial attorney Linda Kenney Baden says if the defense couldn't prove Arias' allegations, they would come back to haunt her. To convince jurors that Arias was a battered woman, her attorney, Jennifer Willmott, called domestic violence expert Alyce LaViolette - who testified for several days:.
Jennifer Willmott: And do you believe in your expert opinion that Jodi was a battered woman or is a battered woman? Jennifer Willmott: How would you characterize Alyce LaViolette: I would call it a domestically abusive relationship. LaViolette testified that Jodi and Travis's relationship was abusive both verbally and physically:. Jennifer Willmott: Does he call her names like bitch? Jennifer Willmott Alyce LaViolette: Yes. He grabbed her by the shoulders, threw her to the ground and then told her she wasn't leaving And when she hits the floor, she makes a sound and he says basically, "Don't act like that hurts, bitch.
Maher asked Baden. So you have to be able to be very soft with regard to Travis here. The prosecutor was anything but soft during heated cross examination:. Juan Martinez: You actually are -- biased in favor of the defendant, aren't you? Alyce LaViolette: I don't believe I'm biased. You're mischaracterizing what I do Mr. Juan Martinez: One of the questions here is why is it that you felt the need to caudle her?
Alyce LaViolette: Mr. Martinez are you angry at me? Juan Martinez: Ma'am, is that relevant to you? Is that important to you? Does that make any difference to your evaluation whether or not the prosecutor is angry? Yes or no?!
More layers of Arias' complicated psyche were peeled away when the state called its expert witness, Dr. Janeen DeMarte. DeMarte also dismissed defense claims that Arias suffered memory loss from post traumatic stress. Instead, DeMarte testified that tests she administered suggest Arias may have a borderline personality disorder. That she had some Even from Yreka she couldn't let him go," Martinez told jurors.
The prosecutor said Arias' desire to be with Travis had no bounds and she would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. Asked if Arias could have just snapped, Baden told Maher, "No. This was a buildup that led to her ultimately making a decision in a passionate way.
By continuing to have sex with Arias -- on and off -- for at least nine months after they broke up, Baden says Travis may have unknowingly sent Jodi mixed signals. You're having sex. The way Jodi made it very easy for him.
And he didn't realize that he had this rattlesnake by the neck. Whatever he did fed into her craziness, fed into her insanity, fed -- her desire that she wanted him, and she wanted to control him, and she wanted to have a life with him," Baden explained. And from that point, she would not let that go and she would not let Travis go," Sky Hughes said. Lots of people told Jodi to move on. And she said, 'I can't I can't picture anyone else being the father of my children. She was obsessed.
Stuart Kleinman says obsession can have dangerous consequences. Of course it was," Baden said. For the families of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander, enduring the trial was a trial in itself. Officer Sterling Williams: That's the shower stall with the body crammed down in the bottom of it. I mean, they're-- they're never gonna get over this," trial attorney Linda Kenney Baden said. She knows the price both families paid. It was an unthinkable crime -- as Travis' siblings, Samantha and Steven, told "48 Hours" in The family of Jodi Arias had to endure their own torment.
First, watching as she was cast as a cold-blooded killer. I'll take your word for it. And then hearing Arias tell the world that she's been abused her entire life:. Defense attorney: You told us that dad hit you with a belt after age 7. Did he leave welts? Jodi Arias: He didn't leave welts as often as my mom. She also used a belt.
My dad was very intimidating, so I don't think he needed to hit as quite as hard to get the point across. She's making it all up," Martinez told the court in his closing. Gabriel, who has worked with the defense teams for Casey Anthony and O. Simpson, says jurors are able to separate themselves from courtroom drama.
They absolutely hear that,' Gabriel said. They can only feel sorry for her family, and hope that the sorrow they feel for her family is more merciful than -- what she felt for Travis," said Baden. And during her 18 days on the stand, Baden says, Arias thought she could win the mercy of the jury. After their first initial meeting in Las Vegas at a public convention, it seemed Arias knew he was the person she wanted to be with because she packed up her things and moved to Arizona to be closer to him.
In doing that, she was choosing to leave her California life behind. Jodi Arias was obviously not happy with Travis Alexander on the night that she ended his life. She also slit his throat before shooting him in the head using a gunshot.
Some of the areas she stabbed Alexander include his carotid artery, trachea, and jugular vein. She was on a deadly mission and nothing was going to stop her. One of the biggest questions people continually ask today is why Jodi Arias would kill Travis Alexander? And why would she kill him in such a gruesome manner?
Arias quickly became the focus of investigations. She was indicted on first-degree murder charges on July 9, , and arrested in California soon after. Arias initially denied any involvement in the killing, despite the discovery of her DNA mixed with Alexander's blood at the crime scene, but she later changed her story, claiming that she and her ex had been attacked by two masked intruders.
After killing Alexander, the criminals decided to let her live, she told the police, adding that she chose not to alert authorities at the time because she feared the intruders might seek revenge. Testimony in Arias's trial began in early January , which was aired live to the public and became a media sensation. The following month, the alleged killer took the witness stand in her defense, from where she would testify for 18 consecutive days.
Already infamously known for her different accounts of Alexander's murder, Arias stated that she had killed her ex in an impassioned act of self-defense. She testified that Alexander had frequently abused her and that she killed him after he came at her in a fit of rage when she dropped his camera.
She also claimed to have suffered memory loss as the result of emotional trauma experienced during the incident, with a psychological expert corroborating that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. On May 8, , Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder. Five jurors found her guilty of premeditated murder and seven found her guilty of both premeditated and felony murder, a verdict that sparked elation among Alexander's family members.
However, the judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase after the jury deadlocked on whether Arias deserved the death penalty. They were later able to retrieve the deleted photos, which included sexual photos of Arias and Alexander taken around p.
The last photograph of Alexander alive was taken at p. The photos after that showed a person bleeding on the floor, and Arias dragging the body across the bathroom.
A bloody handprint was found in the bathroom hallway which was found to contain DNA from both Alexander and Arias. The investigation quickly led to Jodi Arias as the prime suspect.
On July 9 th, , she was indicted for first-degree murder and was arrested in California on July 15th. She was extradited to Arizona where she pled not guilty on September 11 th. The woman initially denied having anything to do with the murder, but the investigators had already found her DNA in the blood of the victim on the crime scene. Later on, Arias changed her version and claimed that Alexander had been attacked and assaulted by masked intruders, who had killed him but spared her life.
She claimed she failed to alert the police about the crime due to fear of revenge. It was two years after she was arrested that Arias confessed on killing Alexander, in what she claimed was an act of self-defense, because as she also claimed she had been a victim of domestic violence. The defense attorneys requested that all e-mails and text messages received or sent by Alexander.
The jury selection started a year later, on December 10 th, The defense attorneys argued that the prosecution had systematically excluded African-Americans and women from the jury, but Judge Stephens ruled that there was no bias in the selection of jurors by the prosecution. The case began in January , and in February, Arias was called to testify, which continued for 18 days.
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