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PHOENIX (Reuters) A judge denied the latest defense request for a mistrial on Tuesday in the capital murder case against Jodi Arias, canada goose black friday sale the California woman charged with slaying her lover at his Arizona home in what she Canada Goose online has insisted was an act of canadian goose jacket self defense.
Jodi Arias is uk canada goose pictured during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, April 2, 2013. REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona Republic/Pool
Defense lawyers requested the mistrial in canada goose coats a motion they filed on Sunday accusing a juror of misconduct, canada goose suggesting she may have prejudiced her peers on the jury.
Although Maricopa County Canada Goose Online Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens refused to Canada Goose Parka declare a mistrial, she canada goose uk black friday agreed to excuse the juror in question before resuming proceedings on Tuesday, according to a twitter message posted by canada goose clearance sale the court.
Stephens has denied several previous defense motions to call a halt to the sensational trial.
Judge Sherry Canada Goose Coats On Sale Stephens talks with prosecutor Juan Martinez Canada Goose sale (L) and defense attorneys Jennifer Canada Goose Jackets Willmott (2nd R) and Kirk Nurmi (R) during the capital canada goose uk shop murder case against Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, April 2, 2013. REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona Republic/Pool
Arias, 32, could face the death penalty if convicted of first degree murder in the death Canada Goose Outlet of 30 year old Travis Alexander, whose body was found in the shower of his Phoenix Valley home in June 2008. He canada goose store had canada goose uk outlet been shot in the face, stabbed 27 times, and his throat was slashed.
Arias admitted shooting Alexander with his pistol, but said she opened fire on him after he attacked her in a rage because she dropped his camera while taking snapshots of him in the shower. She has said she cannot remember stabbing him.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez is pictured during the capital murder case against Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, April canada goose uk black friday 2, 2013. REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona Republic/Pool
Lurid circumstances of the case, which went to trial in January and has often featured graphic testimony and the presentation of a sex tape, has unfolded in live Internet telecasts of the proceedings, attracting wide media attention.
Arias met and began dating cheap canada goose uk Alexander, a businessman and motivational speaker, buy canada goose jacket cheap in the fall of 2006. She testified that they continued to have sex despite breaking up, in cheap Canada Goose a relationship characterized by emotional and physical abuse.
She told the court canada goose factory sale that Alexander made her feel a prostitute. Arias uk canada goose outlet said he kicked her and attempted to choke her, although she admitted never reporting the alleged abuse to the police, seeking buy canada goose jacket medical treatment, or documenting it canada goose coats on sale in her journal.
The judge suspended testimony last week for a closed door session to question jurors about whether they had seen or been aware of prosecutor Juan Martinez posing canada goose clearance for pictures and signing autographs for bystanders outside the courthouse.
From information divulged during the session it was revealed that Juror 5 made in front of her fellow jurors amounts to misconduct that inserted partiality in what is supposed to be an impartial body, defense lawyers wrote in their latest motion.