What Happened To Jodi's Guilty?

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How would you feel when you know something is truth, but someone claim it is not? That is exactly how many people feel when they knew Jodi arias had killed Travis Alexander. She did not know that there was enough evidence that proved she was guilty. The evidence included a gun, pictures, e-mails, clothes, memory cards, x-rays, and even a check. Lawyers on both sides utilized this evidence. On the one side, Jodi’s lawyers attempted to convince the jury by making them think Travis Alexander was a possessive man, on the other hand, Juan Martinez, Jodi’s prosecutor, used the evidence to demonstrate her guiltiness.

Although, Jodi’s guiltiness was obvious, she did not want to receive the death penalty. This is why her lawyers used evidence to try to convince the jury that Travis was a possessive man and therefore, demonstrate Arias killed Travis in self-defense, they even attempted to demonstrate that she had mental problems, problems that later on the trial were dismissed. Some of the proofs that her attorneys used were e-mails, and pictures, which they thought
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According to him, and to all the evidence he provided, she was a liar, she had lied from the beginning. In 2008 she made a television interview, where she affirmed that ‘no jury will convict her’, the reason, she believed no evidence was going to be presented. However, according to Martinez, when the police got into Travis house, they found plenty of indications that confirmed she was there the day of the murder. But what was more shocking, is that they found Travis camera in the washer, she had washed the camera literally, but for her misfortune detectives were able to save the camera’s flash drive. This was the most important evidence in the case, not only it indicated that she had been lying, it also reveled the that she did not feel any mercy for his

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