(02-20-2015, 09:12 PM)Lunarscope Wrote: I'm confused if her parents were told to leave the courtroom or if their were further discussions still sealed!
Arias family was booted along with the public and media. Only the Alexander family was allowed to hear Arias testimony to this jury.
According to the just released transcripts, Wilmott says that Arias is okay with her family being in the courtroom. But after the media and public are thrown out, Nurmi insists that Arias wants her family removed also.
Arias insisted her family be thrown out because she didn't want them to hear the new lies she had fabricated about them, that her mother and father used drugs and that they beat her worse than she testified in the first trial.
There were many "secret meetings" between the attorneys, Arias and the Alexander family and the jury in chambers during both the murder trial and this retrial. This is the first time we have gotten a transcript on a meeting held in chambers.
What we know from the just released transcripts is that Arias did not want the media or public to know she was testifying or what she said even after the sentencing. She said she feared she would get hate mail and people might come after her in Estrella or in Perryville.
We also know that Martinez argued against Aria testifying in secret stating that she didn't meet the burden of the law in arguing that she was nervous and worrying about what might happen in the future, that it would cause a precedent for other defendants who would say they were too nervous to testify in public and it would backfire on them and he was right. The Superior Court of Appeals and Supreme Court agreed with the media and Martinez that Arias did not have the right to testify without the media and public hearing what she had to say.