Jodi Arias Trial Update Today: Jodi Arias Retrial Delayed So Prosecution Can Take The Oldest Capital Murder Case in the County To Court

Jodi Arias Trial Update Today: The Jodi Arias retrial date has been put aside due to prosecutor's conflicting trial. The trial is the oldest capital murder case in Maricopa County and may also be a death penalty trial. The second penalty phase in the murder case against Arias has been delayed again. A new date has not been set.

It has been nine months since a jury found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander and the final phase of the trial has been delayed even further. According to the Arizona Republic the Jodi Arias Juan Martinez is scheduled to begin another potential death penalty trial on May 12.

In a Maricopa County Superior Court hearing, Presiding Criminal Judge Joseph Welty ruled the trial of Bryan Hulsey, a man who was accused of killing a police officer in the Phoenix area in 2007 will go first. The case is the oldest capital murder case in the county awaiting trial. Welty weighed priorities in the two cases.

The Bryan Hulsey trial is scheduled to begin May 12.  Bryan Hulsey is charged with the murder of Glendale Police officer Anthony Holly in 2007. Like the Jodi Arias trial, the Hulsey trial has been repeatedly postponed. The case was dropped by a series of defense attorneys and the trial kept getting pushed back. The case will be tried before Judge Joseph Kreamer.

Welty left the rescheduling of Arias' penalty phase retrial to Judge Sherry Stephens, but there is no word so far on when that will happen.

The 33-year-old Arias was convicted last May of killing her boyfriend at his suburban Phoenix home in 2008, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict on her sentence.

Holly was providing backup for another police officer after they made a routine traffic stop of a car on Feb. 19, 2007. Hulsey was a passenger in the car. When police ordered Hulsey to get out of the car, he pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot and killed Officer Holly.

After a lengthy and highly publicized trial, Arias was convicted of the 2008 Travis Alexander murder in May 2013, but jury couldn't decide whether to sentence Arias her to death or to life in prison. In the next phase of the trial, a new jury will determine whether Arias will get life behind bars or the death penalty. If the new jury also reaches an impasse, the death penalty will no longer be a possible sentence.

Judge Sherry Stephens has banned live television coverage of the retrial.

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