Arizona Appeals Court Upholds Jodi Arias’s Murder Conviction

Arizona Appeals Court Upholds Jodi Arias’s Murder Conviction
Jodi Arias (R) looks at her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott (L), during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz.,on Oct. 23, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic/Pool/AP Photo
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The Arizona Court of Appeals on March 24 upheld Jodi Arias’s first-degree murder conviction and life prison sentence in the 2008 killing of her former boyfriend.

Arias’s lawyers had argued that a prosecutor’s misconduct and a judge’s failure to control news coverage during the case deprived her of the right to a fair trial.