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Jodi Arias testifies about why she killed her ex-boyfriend
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Dominic Di-Natale reports from Los Angeles
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- Date Mar 4, 2013
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She never planned to kill or boyfriend.
She was just trying to save herself.
And saving herself apparently -- stabbing Travis Alexander 27 times shooting him in the head and cutting his throat.
-- areas is accused of premeditated murder for Alexander's death back in 2008 now she admits she killed it.
But she says it was self defense.
And today she spent her fourteenth day on the stand this time in front of her own lawyer.
He was trying to redirect her testimony -- clear up any confusion.
At the prosecutor hammered away at her story last week reduced her to tears at points today.
-- -- Did you go to mr.
senators form home on June 4 with the intent.
On killing.
You you didn't.
Did at any point in time during that day June 4 2000.
Did you make a conscious decision.
I want to kill -- and it's never thought.
In fact now we did she say she didn't plan to kill and she says she doesn't remember killing him.
And today she told the court how much she wants love this man before she stabbed and shot and slash the life out of -- Dominic you tally is tracking late developments from our West Coast news -- in fact -- Ares said on the stand today she still loves the man she killed.
That's right check unconditionally sudden she says extraordinary really because as I was telling you studio -- the defense is trying to betray -- -- Travis Alexander.
As violence in -- This afternoon hours attorney -- Miller -- trying to Morales Alexander's missed Cleveland's apparent.
In the face of her obsession with it and how she do anything to get his attention most especially ship through -- sex life listen.
It made me -- they notice you list.
Enjoying himself.
Which he was gratifying I felt better.
About myself that I was able to prevent gratification for him.
No me then went on to the ceiling grace and graphic detail aspects of the has intimate life as he.
Can trusted it continues to try and build an image of -- a sexual aggressor.
It was all too -- for television show up.
A week ago or so in court there was a lot of testimony about and recordings of phone six and that came back today.
-- voice in the dead and out of a deviant at least that's how the defense was trying to betrayal exile that.
And the deeply explicit phone conversation he had -- areas the tape was heavily edited to focus on what Alexander had been -- down the sites.
And there was very little lift her -- in the play -- a sort of greatest hits of the erotic chest.
-- -- and he went straight line by line.
Click by -- but because of the holiday edits the conversation was so all of this he -- sides and they really did feel like they -- trying to hold to discredit Alexander.
Even hours itself didn't appear to be playing a -- within a month to one point chat.
Dominique -- tally in Los Angeles this afternoon thanks.