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Somebody wanted him dead. Somebody wanted to make sure that he was dead. Authorities later determined that Alexander had been dead for days. He had been stabbed at least 27 times, his throat had been cut ear to ear and he had also been shot in the head. When the Hugheses got the news, Chris Hughes said, "I remember just saying -- almost howling -- 'no, no, no, no, no' and 'Oh my gosh. How did this happen?
I couldn't feel anything. I was sitting in the room, by myself, and it hit me that Travis was gone," Lovingier Hughes said. Flores said Arias told him that she'd spoken briefly to Alexander the day he was killed as she was driving to Utah to see a new guy she was dating. During their conversations, Flores told Arias that her name had come up repeatedly during the investigation. When she went to Arizona for Alexander's memorial service, she agreed to be fingerprinted by the police.
Computer forensic investigators then made a shocking discovery. They had analyzed the memory card of the camera they found in Alexander's washing machine and found photographs of him and Arias timestamped from the day of the murder, Flores said. Authorities later learned that the blood from the palm print belonged to both Alexander and Arias.
Flores and police traveled to Yreka, California, to arrest her. During her police interrogations, Arias tried to explain why she had arrived a day late to Utah to see her new love interest. She had been expected on June 4, but arrived a full day later. She told police that her phone had died and she'd gotten lost on the road. Ryan Burns, the man she was visiting in Utah, told police he'd tried to reach her three or four times and that each time the call had gone to voicemail.
Flores learned that a. The caliber of the grandparents' gun matched the caliber of the bullet casing that had been found on Alexander's bathroom floor. As he questioned her, Flores showed Arias graphic photographs of her and Alexander just hours before he'd been killed. Arias continued to deny any involvement in the killing. The next day, after a night in jail, Arias admitted to investigators that she had been at Alexander's home the day he was killed. Arias claimed that she'd arrived at 3 a.
She claimed that later on, while she was taking photographs of him in the shower, they were attacked by two masked intruders -- a man and a woman -- who were bent on killing Alexander. She said that one of the masked intruders had told her to leave and threatened to kill her family if she ever mentioned the incident to anyone.
Authorities didn't believe her story. She was charged with first-degree murder in Alexander's death. Arias remained in prison for more than four years while awaiting trial. In January , her death-penalty trial started. On the witness stand, Arias told the court an entirely different story than the two previous ones she'd told investigators.
She testified to killing Alexander but claimed that it was done in self-defense after he became angry when she dropped the camera that authorities later found in the washing machine. She claimed Alexander had abused her on several previous occasions.
The case turned into a media circus as salacious and violent details about Arias and Alexander were broadcast live around the world. Arias had actively courted the spotlight since her arrest. She did interviews on TV's "48 Hours" and "Inside Edition" after her arrest and was on the witness stand for several weeks during the trial.
She also did a series of media interviews after her conviction. Engle said Martinez capitalized on publicity and went so far as to sign autographs and take pictures with fans outside the courthouse. She also denied her client courted publicity. Campbell asked what judges should do when a prosecutor "becomes an actor on stage loving publicity?
Arias' attorneys claimed Martinez committed several other instances of prosecutorial misconduct, which denied her a fair trial. They included his aggressive behavior when cross examining witnesses, calling defense experts "unethical liars" and insinuating that "jurors would be deemed complicit if they failed to convict," according to the court filings. The Court of Appeals agreed that prosecutorial misconduct was present, stating that Martinez's "belligerent conduct" began before opening statements.
The court reviewed several legal principles on how lawyers should act, including that "a prosecutor should not engage in abusive, argumentative, and harassing conduct. According to court records, a witness asked Martinez while he was cross-examining her, "Are you angry at me? Arias' attorneys during the trial requested a mistrial several times due to Martinez's treatment and tone toward witnesses. The court denied their requests, but admonished Martinez. The Court of Appeals said that Martinez's cross-examination questions '"were so improper that we are compelled to conclude' that he 'either knew or should have known of the impropriety.
The court called his questions "argumentative" and "disrespectful," and said some questions had "innuendo designed to prejudice the witness. Martinez's lawyer told The Republic on Tuesday that cross examinations are naturally adversarial.
The Court of Appeals said it strongly disapproved of Martinez's actions and that an attorney should not escape personal accountability. But it went on to say that the court would not reverse convictions just to punish attorneys.
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