Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Jodi Arias. Photo credit: Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic/Reuters
“Fireworks in break-up murder trial,” ABC’s “Good Morning America” headlined its story.
ABC’s Ryan Owens said the jury followed the action between Arias and Martinez as if it were a tennis match. Arias is charged in the 2008 stabbing and shooting of former boyfriend Travis Alexander.
On Friday’s “GMA,” ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams said that Arias “continues to be a good witness” even though “her story makes very little sense.” But Abrams was critical of the prosecutor who, he said, “is going a little bit overboard.”
Abrams said the prosecutor “doesn’t need to yell at her, because I think the only danger here is that a juror, a few jurors end up feeling sorry for Jodi Arias. And the way you’re going to feel sorry for Jodi Arias is if it seems like the prosecutor is unnecessarily badgering her.”
Abrams advised the prosecutor “to take it down a notch,” although the ABC analyst added that he understands that isn’t Martinez’s style.
What do you think? Is the prosecutor going overboard?