*** UPDATE: The Court of Appeals will be livestreaming the initial oral arguments in relation to Jodi’s case. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10am on Oct. 17 inside Courtroom 2 in the Arizona State Courts Building. Live video links will be posted in this website on that date. Click here for further details. ***
A sweeping new ethics complaint by lawyers for Jodi Arias accuses Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery of covering up misconduct by his lead prosecutor in the infamous murder case.
The complaint, filed Tuesday with the State Bar of Arizona, alleges Montgomery allowed prosecutor Juan Martinez to engage in unethical conduct during the trial and took steps to make sure the public would not find out about it.
Lawyer Karen Clark said Montgomery failed to supervise Martinez. She alleges he blocked public records from being released, including personnel records and depositions of employees who complained Martinez harassed them.
Clark also filed an ethics complaint against Martinez, citing new evidence that shows he wrote his tell-all book about the Arias case while the trial was unfolding. She has previously accused Martinez of giving a blogger and a media personality unprecedented access to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and case files during the trial.
Martinez has been the subject of at least seven bar complaints since 2015. The county has paid out more than $150,000 in attorney’s fees to defend Martinez.
The State Bar in December accused Martinez of unethical conduct in five murder cases over a 10-year period, including Arias’ case.
The Bar said Martinez:
- Compared a Jewish defense attorney to Adolf Hitler.
- Asked jurors how they would like to be strangled by the defendant.
- Disregarded instructions not to repeat telling jurors that the father of a victim could never call his son again.
- Asked jurors to imagine having their throats slit by the defendant (the conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016).
- Told a defense lawyer during a trial sidebar that he would “f–king want to kill myself” if he were married to her and later said that she should go back to law school.
The crux of the latest complaint was Martinez’s relationship with bloggers during the trial. It alleged Martinez engaged in flirtatious or sexual relationships with the women to get inside information on the jury. The complaint also alleged he used the women to leak information about the case on social media.
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UPDATE: The JAA Appellate Fund total currently stands at $105,426.47 — so let’s be sure to keep the momentum rolling so the fund total can push on towards the ultimate target of $250,000. That in turn will help towards covering all the legal fees associated with appealing Jodi’s wrongful conviction.
All donations via Justice4Jodi.com go directly to the fund. It is also the ONLY website authorized to collect donations.
In addition, please DO NOT, under any circumstances, donate through any other website or Facebook page/group claiming to be “official” and/or acting with Jodi’s approval or authorization. The same applies to any “Jodi Membership Clubs”, groups or fake Trust funds that have been set up. These sites are bogus – they continue to steal money from Jodi’s future – and they should be actively avoided. If you are aware of any such sites, please help Jodi by clicking here and reporting them.
Remember… each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.
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