so i d rather just have my freedom as soon as i can get it. amp those words, the sheriffs department announced it was placing jodi on suicide watch. her family members left the jail that night in stunned silence. in the next phase of jodi s murder trial to determine if the level of brutality met arizona s death penalty standards was unexpectedly postponed until next week. no explanation. although the maricopa county sheriffs office confirmed that jodi had been transferred to a jailhouse psych ward indefinitely. and jodi s wisecracks on twitter have ended. her account taken down. maybe reality has finally hit jodi arias. that after being the center of attention for so long her show is finally coming to an end. that s all for this edition of dateline. join us again for dateline wednesday at 8:00, 7:00 central. i m lester holt.
she tells you? in his summation, defense lawyer didn t ask for an acquittal. even he seemed to acknowledge that jurors were likely to convict jodi of something. if ms. arias is guilty of any crime at all, it is the crime of manslaughter and nothing more. he pointedly reminded the jury this wasn t a reality show. that their decision shouldn t be about whether they approve of the woman whose sexual escapades have been part of their daily routine for four months. nine days out of ten, i don t like jodi arias. it is a phrase that resonated if not with the jury, his client who responded via twitter. nine days out of ten. that sounds about right. if you think it s strange that a murder defendant would laugh it up via social media even while a jury deliberates her fate, than you don t know jodi arias but of course, that was kind of the issue throughout this trial. who was she?
jam. but was she now trying to cry her way out of it on the witness stand? she s manipulative. she s cunning, and i suspect she can be extremely seductive. forensic psychiatrist stephen pitt who s familiar with the case, but who has not examined jodi arias sees a woman good at manipulating others, but not so good with being rejected. i saw her diagnosed by the prosecution s expert witness as having borderline personality disorder. what does that mean? it could be the understatement of this particular case. they do not do well with rejection or abandonment. jodi arias is essentially the 21st century version of the character that glenn close played in fatal attraction. if there was any time during the trial when jurors tipped their hand about how they felt about jodi arias it came over the course of two days when they
questioned her directly. arizona is one state where jurors can actually ask questions of the defendant. the judge reads them. did the police ever find your grandfather s gun? reporter: while the tone was not as biting as that of the prosecutor, those jury questions were overwhelmingly full of skepticism and disbelief. why did you place travis body back in the shower? why not just tell the police the truth from the start? after all the lies you have told, why should we believe you now? the lies that i have told in this case are can be tied directly back to either protecting travis reputation or my involvement in his death in any way. because i was very ashamed. reporter: and that s what this would all boil down to. all of jodi s lies. she was a chameleon. she read people really well, really well.
as the end neared, the spectacle that was the jodi arias trial spilled out of the courtroom and off the flat screens and on to the street. did you kill travis alexander? this trial started with jodi arias admitting that she killed travis alexander. and yet, she testified, in her own defense, for weeks. as if she still thought she could talk her way out of trouble. you saw her crying on the witness stand. can anybody debate the reason she was crying is because she cries for herself? if there was one point juan martinez wanted to drive home in his closing arguments to the jury. she s an ornate liar. it was that jodi arias had spent the last four months running a con on them. you are going to buy the lies? are you going to believe what