Jodi Arias trial update today: Jodi Arias brought her artwork website, https://www.jodiarias.com, back online amidst criticism that that her family profited from her trial. Jodi Arias took to Twitter to say she was trying to file for bankruptcy, but left it for Jodi Arias followers to post news about her site. Jodi Arias operated her own Twitter account during the trial. She used a third using a third party to post comments. As of Friday, Jodi Arias’ Twitter account had over 78,000 followers.

On the blog of the Jodi Arias site is a message to her friends. Jodi Arias takes issue with the books that have been written about her. Jodi Arias’ blog asks her friends to imagine a “book about you titled, “Exposed: The Secret Life of [Your Name Here].”

The Jodi Arias trial hypnotized America. People were glued to their TVs for the five-month Jodi Arias trial. It was watched in millions of homes and streamed live on the internet. Jodi Arias has since been the subject of TV movies, books and even an upcoming song by a former Bee Gee, but she is barred from profiting from her crime through movie deals or book deals under Arizona's Son of Sam laws. The Lifetime TV movie, “Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret” pulled in 3.1 million viewers.

According to her blog, Jodi Arias is worried about her legacy. A new book written with the help of one of Jodi Arias’ friends has been released. Jodi Arias says “This book is filled with nasty lies about you and half-truths distorted to make you look as inhuman and unsalvageably evil as possible. Imagine that in writing this book, the author (or her ghostwriter) consulted with a woman you once briefly knew years ago, who stopped being your friend for reasons so esoteric she sounds like she was reared in the Dark Ages.”

In her blog, Jodi Arias says she was betrayed and that the book is “filled with degrading, embarrassing, spurious details.” Jodi Arias says the money from the book goes to a Legacy fund “bearing your abuser’s name and founded by people whose burning, twisted desire is to watch you die.”

Arias alleged that Travis Alexander had a history of domestic abuse and was particularly sadistic with her. The jury rejected her allegations. Jodi Arias' lawyers asked judge Sherry Stephens to vacate the jury's ruling that the murder was "especially cruel." This is the classification that allowed the prosecution to argue for the death penalty. Her lawyers say that "especially cruel" is too broad of a term for jurors who aren’t legal experts to fairly judge what makes one killing more cruel than another. Arizona law defines "cruel manner" in terms of the victim’s pain and suffering. It didn’t take into the mitigating factors of the crime, like Arias’ age or the "unusual and substantial duress" she was suffering.

Because of the extreme violence with which she killed Alexander and her resolute insistence that she was defending herself from repeated domestic abuse, the public was polarized during the trial. The medical examiners’ reports showed that Arias stabbed Alexander 27 times in the torso, chest, heart, and back, shot him in the face, and slit his throat from ear to ear with such violence that he was almost decapitated in less than two minutes.

Jodi Arias trial Judge Stephens has not yet announced a start date for the retrial.