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Public defender Kirk Nurmi, representing Santana Batiz-Aceves Wednesday, speaks to Judge Teresa Sanders during a pretrial conference at the Maricopa County Superior Courthouse in Mesa.
Jodi Arias, right, and her attorney, Kirk Nurmi, stand as the jury is excused for a lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Arias is charged with murder in the death of lover Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)
Judge Sherry Stephens, second left, confers with, from left, prosecutor Juan Martinez, and defense attorneys Jennifer Wilmott and Kirk Nurmi, Thursday, April 4, 2013, during the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias is charged with murder in the death of lover Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)
Judge Sherry Stephens and attorneys Juan Martinez, left, Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi, right, go over questions submitted by jurors at the murder trial of Jodi Arias, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Maricopa County Superior Court in downtown Phoenix. Arias is on trial for the murder of Travis Alexander in 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle, Pool )
Jodi Arias asks a question of her attorney, Jennifer Willmott , left, while Judge Sherry Stephens, prosecutor Juan Martinez and defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi and Willmott go over questions submitted by jurors in the murder trial of Jodi Arias, Wednesday March 6, 2013, in Maricopa County Superior Court in downtown Phoenix. Arias is on trial for the murder of Travis Alexander in 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle, POOL)
Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi listens as defendant Jodi Arias testifies about killing Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008 and the panic afterward, as she testifies during her murder trial in Judge Sherry Stephens' Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. Arias is charged in the 2008 stabbing and shooting death of her lover, Alexander. She faces the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Charlie Leight, Pool)
The attorney for the man accused of being the Chandler Rapist has asked the court to hold his trial in another county or at least to gag prosecutors and police.
Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the death-penalty phase Monday, then said they will call only one witness: Arias.
The man accused of being the Chandler Rapist will be tried in Maricopa County. A judge recently dismissed defense attorneys' change of venue motion filed on behalf of Santana Batiz-Aceves, who stands accused of attacking half a dozen schoolgirls over a span of 18 months.
Day five of the Jodi Arias tria l included testimony from two police detectives.
A Mesa man suspected of raping an 93-year-old woman inside her home in March wants a judge to determine he is too mentally ill to stand trial.
Attorneys for Jodi Arias have asked an Arizona judge to delay until next year a retrial of the penalty phase in her case to allow the convicted murderer time to gather witnesses to testify on her behalf.
The judge in Jodi Arias' murder case on Thursday denied a defense motion to order jurors sequestered for the remainder of the trial during a bizarre week when one panelist was removed and videos emerged of Arias' parents telling authorities she has mental problems.
The man accused as the Chandler Rapist made an appearance in court Wednesday, and his attorneys hope it will be among his last in Maricopa County.
Day four of the Jodi Arias murder trial had compelling testimony from the man Arias visited after killing Travis Alexander.
The Jodi Arias murder trial became even more of a spectacle Thursday as defense attorneys argued that the prosecutor committed misconduct by signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans outside court.
A woman charged in the Arizona stabbing and shooting death of her lover resumed testimony Tuesday, recounting her troubled past and the numerous boyfriends who cheated on her as the defense works to seek sympathy from jurors.
An ex-girlfriend of the man Jodi Arias says she killed in self-defense testified Tuesday that with her, the victim was never physically or verbally abusive.
Defense attorneys in Jodi Arias' murder trial rested their case Tuesday after about 2 1/2 months of testimony aimed at portraying the defendant as a victim of domestic violence who was forced to fight for her life on the day she killed her one-time boyfriend.
Jodi Arias' defense attorney concluded his questioning of the defendant Tuesday after testimony in her Arizona death penalty case that largely repeated previous details from the day she says she killed her lover in self-defense.
Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial made it clear they aren't satisfied with her stories about why she killed her lover, then methodically covered her tracks and couldn't recall much of anything from the day.
A woman charged with killing her lover testified Wednesday that she has no recollection of stabbing him, slitting his throat or even whether she shot him during a fight at his Arizona home nearly five years ago.
Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, saying she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
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