The live court session for Jodi Arias' first-degree murder trial will return on Tuesday for the 2008 Arizona killing of Travis Alexander. The trial can be watched via the free live stream below.

Arias' trial was not in session on Monday because of the Easter holiday but that did not prevent her defense team from putting in a request for a mistrial over misconduct from juror no. 5.

Arias' defense attorney Kirk Nurmi filed a request for a mistrial because of prejudiced statements juror no. 5 made in front of her fellow jurors. It was a "misconduct that inserted partiality in what is supposed to be an impartial body," he wrote, according to Arizona Republic.

On March 28, Nurmi told the judge that prosecutor Juan Martinez stopped and posed for photographs and sign autographs for fans outside of the Maricopa County courtroom and that jurors may have seen this taking place which he considered prosecutorial misconduct. Arizona's 12 News ran footage of Martinez with fans outside of the courthouse and it was re-aired on CNN.

Judge Sherry Stephens then demanded that each juror be questioned individually about the incident and reportedly juror. 5's statements are alleged to prove that she is neither fair nor impartial. Nurmi said that this makes juror no. 5's removal from the jury "essential."

"Ms. Arias takes the position that the statements Juror 5 made in front of her fellow jurors amounts to misconduct," Arias' attorneys wrote according to HLNTV. "Given the evidence that came forward on March 28, 2013, it is beyond legitimate dispute that Juror 5 is not fair and impartial making her unfit to continue as a juror."

The details about juror no.5's statements have not been made public because the court documents are sealed.

Juror no. 5 is a married, white female in her 30's according to the report. She stood out throughout the lengthy trial because she has a "unique hairstyle" witnesses told HLNTV.

The jury consists of 18 jurors but only 12 will deliberate after prosecution and the defense give their final arguments. The rest are alternates.

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 on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:30 p.m. EST.

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