PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Is there a chance the infamous Jodi Arias trial could be retried based on missing evidence and misconduct?
For the first time in a long time, Jodi Arias is addressing this herself.
She was convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in 2008 after stabbing and shooting him in the shower. Now, Jodi is writing about the case for the first time in years, with some extreme accusations and goals on her blog.
True Crime Arizona just produced a documentary called “Obsessed: Unraveling Jodi Arias” and revealed she is running a blog from prison. Jodi emailed true crime correspondent Briana Whitney during the documentary’s production.
Jodi never addresses the actual case in her blog – it’s almost always about her life and happenings in Perryville prison. But this new post is different – she’s making claims and looking for new counsel to help her with them.
Both the prosecutor and defense attorney in this case are disbarred over misconduct in this trial. So, does she have a chance at a new one?
On her “Just Jodi” prison blog, the convicted killer starts the new year with a blog called “Hello, 2026,” and pretty quickly, she goes after the lead detective (now retired) Steve Flores and former prosecutor Juan Martinez from her trial.
“Important, exculpatory evidence in my case has been lost or destroyed. Where is my proof? I’m working on that. My lawyers yawn when I explain this. After all, I’m just the mentally ill woman they have to entertain for half an hour by phone every few weeks, after which time they bill the county.
Detective Flores or some other henchman acting at Juan’s behest likely destroyed or disappeared this exculpatory evidence. Maybe one of them will gain a conscience and admit to their tampering…”
True Crime Arizona asked attorney Tom Ryan about these claims, especially considering the fact that Jodi Arias eventually admitted she killed Travis and claimed self-defense.
“If that happened that could be a basis for overturning a conviction. There is no evidence of that yet nor do I necessarily expect for there to be,” Ryan said. “If evidence has been lost or destroyed, what is the relevance? Not everything that’s been lost or destroyed will necessarily result in a reason or basis for overturning a conviction.”
“A lot of people are going to look at this and say wait a minute, she got on the stand and said, ‘I killed him, I did this.’ How does that work?” Briana Whitney asked the attorney.
“Great question: how does exculpatory evidence work when somebody has admitted they have done something wrong a criminal act. Keep in mind there are varying degrees of criminal intent that the court and jury must look at when a defendant is being tried. The evidence may show she acted with a lesser level of intent than the jury found her guilty of, so it could be relevant to a question of I should have guilty of 2nd degree murder or manslaughter,” Ryan said.
Jodi goes on to write that she’s looking for new attorneys after feeling betrayed and reveals she’s had over 18 of them.
“Once again, an attorney has violated my confidence and shattered the trust I placed in them. Over the years, I’ve helped enrich this person with a lot of my money, and happily so because they were amazing at their craft and I benefited. Recently, however, they used intel I shared with them against me, then avoided my calls to avoid having to explain themselves. I’m stunned by this betrayal and mourning the end of this relationship…”
“In case you’re guessing who I’m referring to, I’ve confided in—let me count…over eighteen lawyers, so you’re probably wrong. I’m sorry to be stingy with the details here, but needs must.
There is a theme in my life of being manipulated, exploited, abused, and deceived by attorneys. I have learned the painful way that they will, despite their oaths, put the interests of others above their client’s, and that they should never be completely trusted…”
“The idea that she has had 18 lawyers and she knows more about law and criminal defense than those 18 lawyers tells me all I need to know about the narcissism that she’s experiencing,” Ryan said. The convicted killer writes she’s preparing a habeas case, meaning she will gear up to try to prove her constitutional rights were violated during the trial.
“I’m going to hire more attorneys. This is not a Will I, won’t I?, like my April memoir. This is a definite, immediate move I’m making while the January calendar is still in single digits. These attorneys won’t be for PCR. Rather, they will act as advisors with an eye towards habeas.”
“Habeas corpus occurs in the federal circuit after PCR, should PCR fail. Based on how this case has languished for five years since entering the PCR stage, based on how much progress has not been made, and based on all the investigation in these past five years that has not been done, I have plenty of cold, anxiety-inducing reasons to believe that this stage will indeed fail.”
She then ends her blog post with this:
“For five years, PCR has been a watched pot that I’m beginning to realize will never boil. I have been naive to approach it the way I approached my case during the pretrial phase, which has been to let attorneys who didn’t care as much as I do (through no fault of their own—nobody can care as much as I do) take the wheel while I buckle up and cruise through it, hoping to reach Destination Freedom.
On that note, I’m going to go reach out to those new lawyers now.
Happy Freakin’ New Year.”
“If you ask for my overall gestalt, the likelihood of her seeing an overturned conviction here is somewhere between slim to none,” Ryan said.
Tom Ryan said this case was messy from start to finish. While he was not involved in the trial, he did represent Juror #17 over death threats she received after the second death penalty trial – the lone juror who held out, which resulted in Jodi getting a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty.
We reached out to Jodi’s current defense team regarding her ongoing appeal to ask about all this, but they said no comment.
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