The court session for Jodi Arias' first-degree murder trial was cancelled on Wednesday and will return on Thursday for the 2008 Arizona killing of Travis Alexander.

The trial can be watched via the free live stream below.

Judge Sherry Stephens told reporters in the Maricopa Country court room on Wednesday that the day's session was cancelled and did not explain why. Sources told a Nancy Grace producer that it was cancelled for medical reasons- Arias is suffering migraine headaches.

Arias was feeling faint in court on Tuesday and on Wednesday Arias' attorney, Jennifer Willmott ,requested that her client be given mediation after a closed hearing about attorney fees.

Arias' second defense expert, domestic violence expert Alyce LaViolette, testified on Tuesday and explained why the alleged murderer did not tell anyone she had been emotionally, physically and sexually abused by Alexander. LaViolette said many abuse victims do not report it nor tell anyone because they feel ashamed and humiliated.

Arias' defense attorneys recruited LaViolette to be their second defense witness to support their client's claim that she committed the gruesome killing of Alexander as an act of self-defense because she was in an abusive relationship. Arias testified earlier in the trial that Alexander - a devout Mormon who broke the religion's chastity laws by having sex with her - had physically, sexually and emotionally abused her. Arias, however, does not have any physical evidence or eyewitnesses to support these claims.

Arias also testified that Alexander was a sexual deviant who had several fetishes, masturbated to pictures of young children and told her that when they had sex during their relationship, she sounded like a "12-year-old girl having sex for the first time."

LaViolette has worked with domestic violence victims since 1978, according to her website, and oversees a training program for battered victims. She has testified as a criminal expert witness on the stand for many trials including criminal, civil and family courts for various offenses including homicides and child custody. LaViolette's website said she specializes in "anger management, domestic violence counseling for survivors and perpetrators." She also wrote the book It Could Happen To Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay.

Arias, 31, is on trial for murdering her ex-lover, Alexander. According to police, she stabbed her victim over 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the head. His body was discovered the day he was killed: June 4, 2008. Arias lied twice at first about how Alexander was killed and later admitted that she killed him in an act of self-defense. If she is convicted of the murder and the lies that she confessed to, she will likely face the death penalty and become the fourth woman in Arizona's history to die by lethal injection.

LaViolette is expected to return to the witness stand on March 28.

Watch the free live stream of Arias' murder trial below beginning at 12:30 p.m. EST.

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