Jodi Arias gives ANOTHER interview hours after pleading for her life to complain she didn't receive a fair trial, her lawyers failed her... and she deserves freedom - Jury unable to make a decision on Wednesday, sent back for further deliberations
- If a decision is not reached by the jury, judge declares mistrial for death penalty phase and new jury brought in
- Arias was convicted last week of first-degree murder in the June 2008 stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander
- She claimed to have wanted no media presence at her Arizona trial
By Associated Press
PUBLISHED: 17:21 GMT, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:19 GMT, 22 May 2013
In a surprise jailhouse interview just hours after a jury began deliberating her fate, Jodi Arias spoke out about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she 'deserves a second chance at freedom someday'.
Arias repeated many of her claims from previous interviews, testimony on the witness stand and her statements to the jury earlier on Tuesday as she pleaded for mercy.
Her further stints of self-promotion came as the jury were unable to reach a decision on Wednesday on whether Arias should be sentenced to death.
The judge sent the jury back out to deliberate until 4.30pm (MST). If jurors are unable to agree, then the judge will declare a mistrial for death penalty phase only and a new jury will be brought in.
She also provided some new information about her case and how she believed her lawyers let her down by not calling more witnesses who could have bolstered her claims that she was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of Travis Alexander.
Arias was convicted last week of first-degree murder in the June 2008 stabbing and shooting death of her one-time lover in what prosecutors described as a cold, calculated killing carried out in a jealous rage. Arias has maintained all along it was self-defense.
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