Jodi Arias teases shock new legal move after serving more than a decade in prison for killing boyfriend

Notorious murderer Jodi Arias teased that she may be making a new legal challenge to her conviction, after serving more than a decade behind bars for the murder of Travis Alexander.

The now 45-year-old is serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the grisly 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend.

She has made numerous, unsuccessful attempts over the years to get her 2013 conviction overturned, and it seems that she may now have another trick up her sleeve.

Speculation about a new legal challenge was sparked when Arias made some mysterious updates to her blog. 

In a June 27 post on her blog, Arias addressed rumors that she flirts with the prison guards at Arizona’s Perryville state women’s prison – where she sells her artwork, acts as a behind-bars loan shark and even runs an ad-hoc tattoo business.

‘It might be difficult for some to grasp, but flirting is not among my priorities,’ she wrote. ‘It’s a waste of time and does nothing to serve my goals.’

Instead, Arias said her focus lies on ‘PCR (post-conviction relief), my art and my writing, including some manuscripts that may or may not ever be published.’

It now seems Arias wanted to spread the message, as the June 27 post is one of only two that are not only available to subscribers. The only other post that is accessible to the general public was made earlier that month, in which Arias disputed claims that she is making millions of dollars.

Yet, she notes that she does sell her artwork, the revenue for which ‘is used for Knapp counsel, which is a kind of assistant lawyer in addition to my court-appointed lawyer to tackle my ginormous case file.’

In Arizona, inmates can try for post-conviction relief after all of the standard appeals have been exhausted.

It can be used to introduce new evidence or raise constitutional concerns, though it is unclear how Arias may pursue the post-conviction relief.

She was found guilty of murder in 2013, with prosecutors saying she violently attacked Alexander at his home in Mesa in a jealous rage.

The couple had met in September 2006 at a work conference in Las Vegas. Because they lived in different states, their relationship was off-and-on for more than a year. 

But while Alexander saw the relationship as being casual, Arias took it far more seriously. 

In court, prosecutors claimed Arias was a jealous and manipulative girlfriend who often raged at Alexander when she found out he had been dating other women.

Authorities also alleged that Alexander was planning a trip to Mexico with another woman, leading her to plot to murder him.

Alexander was found dead in his shower on June 4, 2008, after sustaining 27 stab wounds, a slit throat and a gunshot wound to the head.

A digital camera found in Alexander’s washing machine also included a number of images of Arias and the victim in sexual poses, and another taken moments after Alexander was murdered.

The image showed him ‘profusely bleeding’ on the bathroom floor, where a bloody handprint was found that contained Arias’ DNA.

Arias initially denied the murder but later admitted to doing so as she claimed it was self-defense after he attacked her. She was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 

Arias has tried several times to get her conviction overturned.

Most recently, in 2020, her lawyers argued that Maricopa County prosecutor Juan Martinez’s misconduct and a judge’s failure to control news coverage during the case deprived her of the right to a fair trial.

But a three-member appeals court, in a 29-page opinion, unanimously concluded that prosecutor Juan Martinez’s conduct in the case didn’t outweigh Arias´ guilt.

‘We conclude that Arias was convicted based upon the overwhelming evidence of her guilt, not as a result of prosecutorial misconduct,’ the ruling said.

However, it noted ‘an egregious case of misconduct by a highly experienced prosecutor’ who ‘improperly engaged in self-promoting conduct.’

The panel condemned Martinez’s ‘argumentative phrasing of questions’ to defense witnesses, adding that his ‘aggressive tone and combative, bullying behavior’ were recurring issues in the trial and Arias’ attorneys moved for a mistrial six times.

‘We strongly disapprove of his actions, we are compelled to follow the well-established principle that we do not “reverse convictions merely to punish a prosecutor’s misdeeds.”‘

Still, it appears Arias is living quite comfortably at the Perryville Correctional Facility.

She has held a job as a library aide since 2022 and was more recently assigned to assist with the prison’s music programs, according to Fox News.

Public records also show she is housed in a medium-low security unit, where Arias is given opportunities to express herself. 

‘Whatever comes into her mind to do, she does. And no one even questions her,’ Berna Martez, who was imprisoned alongside Arias at the prison, previously told Daily Mail. 

‘She’s got more money than anyone else, the guards all like her, and she’s just on a different level from everyone else,’ she claimed.

Yet a male guard at Perryville insisted that even though Arias is popular at the prison, she does not get to break the law. 

‘I don’t want it to sound like she is bringing contraband in, or doing something like that,’ he said, ‘but she understands how this place works, and she knows how to navigate around here to her advantage. She’s very smart.’ 

‘We don’t let her get away with murder,’ the guard continued. ‘On the contrary, she gets a lot of scrutiny.’