barriers is the thing we saw happen at aamanda s home, a cruh of journalists there and sadly created a really difficult melee couldn t hear her. i m coming to you live from phoenix, arizona. there is another very big story that s been developing in this community as well. in fact, a four-month-long trial is about to come to an end, the trial of jodi arias. our jean casarez and hln correspondent and also paul callan our legal analyst, join me live now oh, i apologize. we re in the official verdict watch now here in phoenix. and that verdict could come down at any moment. and let me remind you this is a death penalty case. jean casarez, you are able to actually get a read on these jurors, their comings and goings in this now day four of deliberations, the eight men and four women. give me an update as to what they ve been doing, how long they ve been deliberating and what their day is like. ashleigh, we just learned the jury actually has started
before i would go in and try to talk to for instance child rape victims or adult rape victims that had been through so much they could hardly speak. some of them i remember one girl broke down on the stand, put her hands down on her her head on her hands and couldn t speak anymore on direct examination, the moment of truth in front of the jury. we had to stop court and kind of start all over. and unless you ve seen it or lived through it yourself, it s so hard to describe what these victims have been through. and there are a lot of victims out there right now hearing our voices that have never told police or anyone else what has happened to them. it s so hard and difficult and painful to talk about not just the physical abuse, it s the feeling of helplessness. that feeling that nobody helped you. nobody could help you. that feeling, that particular feeling seems to go with these victims for the rest of their
remind our viewers, again, even those who followed the case closely couldn t possibly have watched the number of trial hours that played out over the course of the last four months. and, jean casarez, there is an enormous amount of evidence that was brought up on what 19 days on the standby the accused herself, but very little hard evidence to corroborate her story that she had to act in self-defense and kill in self-defense as a battered woman. right, but the primary piece of evidence for premeditation is that gun. that gun that was in her grandparents home that suddenly the same caliber shot travis, but prosecutors say he was stabbed first. if you re going to premeditate a murder with a gun, why do you stab first? that sounds like something that happened out of the blue. and i keep going back to all of that other evidence as well loading up a car, a rented car with gas cans, turning license plates upside down, driving through the night, leaving cell phone messages after the fa