Jodi Arias: The spectacle that won't end — Transcript

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1. 0:00so it's been almost 7 years now since
2. 0:02Travis Alexander was killed finally we
3. 0:04are getting to the point where we're
4. 0:05going to have a sentence in place for
5. 0:08Jody Aras it's an unusual case because
6. 0:10it's taken so long to bring it to trial
7. 0:13it's cost so much money and I think a
8. 0:15lot of people are wondering why why is
9. 0:18this trial dragged on for so long when
10. 0:20other murder trials don't necessarily
11. 0:22last that long that's a great I mean
12. 0:24that's a great question but we have to
13. 0:25go back to the fact that we're doing
14. 0:27this over again so the jury hung on the
15. 0:31penalty phasee under the law the state
16. 0:34elected and had the the right to
17. 0:36basically present its evidence again so
18. 0:38that added now is this the typical do
19. 0:40all murder trials do all penalty phases
20. 0:42go this long they don't they don't
21. 0:44conservative conservatively it's about a
22. 0:4760-day uh 60-day maybe even 90 days um
23. 0:51complex evidence you have computer
24. 0:52evidence you may have experts that are
25. 0:54going to testify you may have a
26. 0:56multitude of uh mitigating witnesses
27. 0:59that are going to that are come forth
28. 1:00and testify here though again I think
29. 1:04you have issues here with did the judge
30. 1:06really have the right control the right
31. 1:09control measures in place to make sure
32. 1:12this is moving along at a pace that it
33. 1:13should go judges are not supposed to be
34. 1:15necessarily conscientious of the
35. 1:16spotlight or the or or the attention
36. 1:19that's being played publicly in this in
37. 1:20in any case because they're supposed to
38. 1:22adjudicate everything pretty much the
39. 1:24same way but judges have to be
40. 1:26conscientious of that and and perhaps
41. 1:29does this judge uh look back in this and
42. 1:32say I I allowed a lot of things to
43. 1:33happen in this trial because there was
44. 1:35so much attention being played to it
45. 1:37this judge is human just like everyone
46. 1:38else she sits there on the bench um
47. 1:41there's no doubt that as she spans
48. 1:44across that jury room she's seen a
49. 1:46camera op to her far right she's seen
50. 1:48reporters that have just absolutely
51. 1:50taken every seat in that courtroom so
52. 1:52that does it it has to play on her and
53. 1:54in making sure that she's viewed as
54. 1:58giving both sides opportunity to present
55. 2:00their evidence and first and foremost I
56. 2:02think that um this judge is taking that
57. 2:04position she if if we could interview
58. 2:07her I think this judge would say I
59. 2:09wanted to make sure that both sides had
60. 2:11an opportunity to present their evidence
61. 2:13because we're talking about life or
62. 2:15death here yeah when we look at some
63. 2:17other high-profile cases you can take
64. 2:19the American Sniper trial in
65. 2:20Stevensville Texas me two weeks week and
66. 2:23a half somewhere in that nature so the
67. 2:25judge doesn't necessarily have to do
68. 2:27this um what I don't think anybody wants
69. 2:30to see this kind of circus happen again
70. 2:32so so what do we do to prevent it in
71. 2:34terms of our Judicial System you know
72. 2:35that's a great that's a great point
73. 2:37there are some judges that from the from
74. 2:38the outset in pre-trial motions when
75. 2:41it's clear that a judge that a matter is
76. 2:42going to trial they will lay out for you
77. 2:45a calendar and say Here's when we're
78. 2:47starting and here's where we're going to
79. 2:48be done and if your Witnesses are not
80. 2:50ready if you're having issues getting
81. 2:52your witnesses to court too bad and
82. 2:55we're going to keep moving and so uh
83. 2:58maybe a little more in regard regards to
84. 3:00um keeping people on task that would
85. 3:02that would go a long way but again first
86. 3:04and foremost everybody is especially
87. 3:06when we're dealing with the death
88. 3:07penalty case due process is such an
89. 3:09important concept the the court has to
90. 3:11in the back of its mind um recognize
91. 3:14that if I don't allow this to come in
92. 3:16now it's only going to come in later on
93. 3:18in appeal we we've allowed all kinds of
94. 3:20things to come into this and the costs
95. 3:22have run up tremendously too I don't
96. 3:23know if we have the final total but even
97. 3:25after the first trial it was in excess
98. 3:27of $2 million probably approaching three
99. 3:30or more should cost be a factor in in
100. 3:34determining how these trials are
101. 3:36adjudicated I think if you ask the
102. 3:38lawyers no it shouldn't and and the
103. 3:41reason is because this is such an
104. 3:42important issue this is again this is
105. 3:45our judicial process and the concern is
106. 3:48that if we do allow cost to come in are
107. 3:50they going to cut Corners are they not
108. 3:52going to call experts that otherwise
109. 3:54would have allowed the jury to make a
110. 3:55determination an important determination
111. 3:57so that's I mean that's a real concern
112. 4:00now recognizing if we allow every death
113. 4:02penalty case to run in the $3 million
114. 4:05figures um we're going to go bankrupt
115. 4:07our because we're the ones paying the
116. 4:08bill here absolutely and so I think what
117. 4:11you're going to see is you're going to
118. 4:12see the state Sit down you're going to
119. 4:14see the prosecutors you're going to see
120. 4:16defense attorneys sit down and evaluate
121. 4:18this is going to be a lesson we're going
122. 4:20to learn many lessons from this case
123. 4:21going forward in the Years um moving
124. 4:24away from this trial and one of the big
125. 4:26questions is going to be how can we
126. 4:27avoid this issue and it may be here's
127. 4:29your budget this is what you can spend
128. 4:31for this and if you deviate from this
129. 4:34too bad and or at least having more
130. 4:36judicial oversight in regards to those
131. 4:39costs great Hector thanks appreciate it
132. 4:41you're very welcome