A few weeks ago, as the country was in the midst of shutting down due to Covid-19, Jodi Arias lost her appeal in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Arias was hoping for a new trial based on a number of issues including prosecutorial misconduct, trial publicity, jury selection and evidentiary rulings made by the judge throughout the trial. The issues on appeal surrounded Arias’s first trial in 2013, not the second trial held in 2014-15 which was only for the sentencing phase. The appellate court’s decision focused largely on Arias’s prosecutorial misconduct claim. She argued that there wasn’t any one thing that prosecutor Juan Martinez did for which she deserved a new trial; rather, it was the cumulative effect of his courtroom behavior. That behavior included what the court called his “argumentative phrasing of questions…aggressive tone and combative, bullying demeanor”…
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