From the State Bar of Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct:
ER 3.6. Trial Publicity
(a) A lawyer who is participating or has participated in the investigation or litigation of a matter shall not make an extrajudicial statement that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know will be...
Headline from a Huffpo story today: Jodi Arias' Lawyers Look To Influence Public Opinion With Message In Arizona Newspaper.
Whaaaat?!? Is that legal?
(And during the week of the fifth anniversary of TA's murder, too. Keepin' it klassy!)
I don't know if this is old news now, but here's the first line of a story on HuffPo today regarding JA:
"The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear an appeal on whether a judge improperly allowed prosecutors to seek a death sentence for Jodi Arias in the 2008 stabbing and shooting...
Okay. So as it stands, 25-to-life is the minimum sentence for LWP, is that correct? And she doesn't automatically get a parole hearing after 25 years? If that's the case, would her lawyers have to petition to get a parole hearing at 25 years? (Ha! Imaging KN and JW working on this 25 years from...
Michael Kiefer @michaelbkiefer
@dkz48 @camillekimball Washington stepped down right after Arias decided to rep herself to try to get Travis' pedophile letters in evidence
@michaelbkiefer I think you must mean "alleged" pedophile letters. If they were legit they'd be in evidence.
This is my...
Is it wrong that my heart is singing after watching that interview with 6, 13, and 16? When 18 went on his media blitz I felt like I was entering crazy town all over again, but hearing them say that the evidence very quickly convinced them of her guilt, and that they felt the state made its...
You just gave me a thought, DT: I wonder if the remaining jurors made a pact not to talk to the media so that no one would be identified (and vilified) for their vote. Maybe Mr. Foreperson broke that pact.
I think people would have been upset at first, but then the knowledge that she'll be in prison for the rest of her natural life, and that she'd have to fund her own appeals in the future would have softened the blow. I'm mostly just upset because I think this jury did a disservice to the...
It is human nature to wonder, but as a member of that jury that was not his mandate. He was not charged with wondering why she did something so horrible, he was charged with weighing the mitigating factors against the acknowledged extreme cruelty of the crime. He apparently wasn't capable of that.
I hate to say this... actually, no I don't: they knew that their chance to sightsee was coming to an end with the end of the trial. It was more important for them to be able to see the Grand Canyon (I'm guessing on someone else's dime) than it was to be in the courthouse. After all, their job as...
Yes, she will. And word is that even if she gets life she'll be in some sort of solitary confinement for years until she "earns" the right to be in the general population. Someone please correct me if I got it wrong!
Whelp, that was hard. BUT... I think JA was crying because she could not believe that they hadn't just decided to give her life. That's what I saw. I saw someone who was appalled that there were people on that jury who wanted to give her the death penalty -- and they clearly were not willing to...
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