Jodi Arias Trial Live Stream Recap: Jurors Question Defense Expert On Lies & Abuse Claims (WATCH ONLINE)
The live court session for Jodi Arias' first-degree murder trial will resume on Monday, Apri 15, for the 2008 Arizona killing of Travis Alexander.
The trial can be watched via the free live stream below.
On Thursday Judge Sherry Stephens read more than 100 questions from jurors to Arias' defense expert Dr. Alyce LaViolette, a domestic violence counselor, in the Maricopa County courtroom. Arizona is one of the few states in the country that allows jurors to question defendants on trial. The process allows jurors to ask questions before they make their decision - in this case, whether or not Arias will be executed by lethal injection for the gruesome crime. The inquiries are submitted into a box and read aloud by Judge Stephens if they are not objectionable.
After LaViolette said text messages prove that Arias worn boys' underwear, waxed herself for Alexander, wore pigtails, and dressed as a schoolgirl for him, she answered 100 juror questions.
One juror asked if Arias' history of physically and verbally abusing her mother, Sandra Arias, makes her an abuser. Another juror asked if Alexander's actions to Arias were defensive, not abusive. and LaViolette answered "No" to both questions.
Here is a partial list of juror questions and answers from LaViolette:
Juror question: "Please state how confident you are that Jodi did not lie to you."
LaViolette: "Like, ever? I don't believe she lied to me about significant things. I don't have reason to believe she lied to me. I don't have evidence to support she lied to me. Is it possible she lied to me about things? It's possible,"
Juror question: "It has been proven that Jodi has lied multiple times... how are you able to know everything she is saying is truthful?"
LaViolette: "I don't, I don't know everything she told me was true... That she lied after the killing of Mr. Alexander does not make her a liar. It makes her a frightened human being."
Juror question: "Do we have any reason to believe Jodi has not manipulated you as she has others?"
LaViolette: "I didn't use Jodi as my evidence, I used so many other thing to look at. So I don't believe that Jodi manipulated me because the Arias that I Looked at were corroborated by other people. I mean, it's possible. I also don't have any evidence that she's been manipulating people. So I'm not sure where that actually came from."
A juror asks if Arias' high IQ made it possible for her to try and outsmart psychological tests. LaViolette said it doesn't appear that she tried to do so. And if she did, she didn't succeed.
Juror question: Is it possible that your view of men in general is skewed or biased towards being abusive?
LaViolette said she has great men in her life: Her dad, brother, son, brothers-in-law and friends.
Juror question: "Could a female abuse, batter or terrorize a man to the point of killing him?"
LaViolette: "Yes, women can be perpetrators."
Juror question: "Did you ever see any proof that Travis physically abused Jodi?"
LaViolette: "The only thing that I saw was a broken finger."
Juror question: "Isn't it possible that Jodi didn't write some of those incidents in her journal because they didn't happen?"
LaViolette: "It's possible."
Juror question: "Is it possible that Arias exaggerated the violent events between her and Alexander."
LaViolette: "I think anything's possible. When I look at the kind of escalation that I've seen with Mr. Alexander and when I listen to what his friends have said, it is very difficult for me to believe that."
Juror question: "Do you think Jodi could have lied to you to help her case?"
LaViolette: "I don't think Arias was lying and that former boyfriends never accused her of lying."
Arias has been on trial for three months. Autopsy records showed that she stabbed Alexander over 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the head. According to police, she 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.
Watch Arias' murder trial live online when it resumes on Monday, April 15, at 12:30 p.m. EST.
Defense witness Dr. Alyce LaViolette, a domestic violence expert, is expected to return to the witness stand.