Jodi Arias Research Paper
AJS/502
November23, 2013
Melinda Allen
Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias was accused of shooting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in Mesa Arizona, June 2008. Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old businessman, well-known motivational speaker and devout Mormon. With a single gunshot to the right brow and being stabbed 29 times, Travis was then left for dead in a stand up shower in his bathroom for several days. When Arias was questioned by the police she stated that she had not seen Travis since April of 2008. She then claimed she had seen two men kill him, then eventually saying that she killed him out of self-defense (Warren, 2013). According to Arias, the dysfunction of their relationship reached its climax when she killed Alexander in self-defense after he became enraged following a day of sex and a gun accident, forcing her to fight for her life. This was the third different account of how Alexander's death had occurred that Arias had offered police, which both prosecutors and observers felt severely damaged …show more content…
The penalty phase of the trial is ongoing. A tweet sent on Arias' behalf indicated she may be considering a plea deal. On October 22, 2013, Arias filed a motion requesting that Nurmi be replaced as her lead counsel. Arias met with the prosecution to discuss a settlement on October 24, 2013.
I was like the rest of the country, I was infatuation with this trial. I would get up every morning at 5:30 to catch the trial before work. I can remember thinking of all the technologies that were used in this trial from DNA to computer science. Detectives collected hair, DNA, writing samples, a camera hard drive, and a memory card that Jodi attempted to completely destroy by putting it in the washing machine among many other pieces of evidence, if technology were not used in the detective work of this case Jodi Arias may have gotten away with
November23, 2013
Melinda Allen
Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias was accused of shooting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in Mesa Arizona, June 2008. Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old businessman, well-known motivational speaker and devout Mormon. With a single gunshot to the right brow and being stabbed 29 times, Travis was then left for dead in a stand up shower in his bathroom for several days. When Arias was questioned by the police she stated that she had not seen Travis since April of 2008. She then claimed she had seen two men kill him, then eventually saying that she killed him out of self-defense (Warren, 2013). According to Arias, the dysfunction of their relationship reached its climax when she killed Alexander in self-defense after he became enraged following a day of sex and a gun accident, forcing her to fight for her life. This was the third different account of how Alexander's death had occurred that Arias had offered police, which both prosecutors and observers felt severely damaged …show more content…
The penalty phase of the trial is ongoing. A tweet sent on Arias' behalf indicated she may be considering a plea deal. On October 22, 2013, Arias filed a motion requesting that Nurmi be replaced as her lead counsel. Arias met with the prosecution to discuss a settlement on October 24, 2013.
I was like the rest of the country, I was infatuation with this trial. I would get up every morning at 5:30 to catch the trial before work. I can remember thinking of all the technologies that were used in this trial from DNA to computer science. Detectives collected hair, DNA, writing samples, a camera hard drive, and a memory card that Jodi attempted to completely destroy by putting it in the washing machine among many other pieces of evidence, if technology were not used in the detective work of this case Jodi Arias may have gotten away with