Jodi Arias Prosecutor ‘More Interested In Getting Death Penalty Than The Truth,’ Says Friend
Feb. 18 2013, Published 7:03 a.m. ET
The prosecutor in the Jodi Arias case is more concerned about grandstanding than he is about justice -- that’s the charge the murder suspect’s friend is making in an exclusive interview with Breaking Celebrity News.
As the nation continues to be transfixed by the bombshell trial against the woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend, 30-year-old Travis Alexander, Arias’ friend Gus Searcy thinks televising the court proceedings in Phoenix, Arizona was a mistake.
He says: “I think the prosecution is more interested in getting the death penalty than the truth. He has watched too many episodes of L.A. Law.”
Searcy says he spoke to his former co-worker just two weeks before she stabbed her Mormon ex-boyfriend 27 times, before slitting his throat and shooting him in his Mesa apartment on June 4, 2008. Arias, now 32, visited him in Las Vegas, and he could overhear her allegedly arguing with Alexander.
He says: “Travis called and I heard him yell at her…and then she ducked in fear like she was dodging a bullet. The moment he started cussing her, she totally gave in to him.”
Worried about her emotional wellbeing and her financial state, Searcy lent Jodi a cell phone, which went on to become a key piece of evidence.
She used it to record a kinky phone sex conversation she had with the deceased -- a conversation that was played in court this week.
Less than two weeks later, Jodi called Searcy telling him Travis was dead. He says: "She called at 3:30…the night he died and was crying hysterically saying Travis had been killed.
"I asked her what happened, and she said… she 'didn’t know…’
“I asked if she need