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The State vs Jodi Arias ~ Travis Alexander murder trial
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#BREAKING
Former #JodiArias lawyer Maria Schaffer denies allegations by prosecutor the she may have deleted porn files.
Schaffer acknowledged that she and her co-counsel looked at the computer in a room with Deputy Maricopa County Attorney Juan Martinez and Mesa police Det. Esteban Flores on June 19, 2009, during the investigation of Alexander's murder.
But "it was physically impossible for us to delete files," she said. "We were never left in the room alone."
She said that the visit was not for a forensic evaluation of the computer, but rather, "an initial foray to see what was seized from the house."
"In Maricopa County, when we have a murder case and we are assigned, we have a duty to the client to look at all the evidence in the case," Schaffer said.
Arias' current defense team alleged in a motion filed Monday that police or prosecutors may have deleted thousands of pornographic files from a computer seized from the home of Arias' victim, Travis Alexander.
Martinez countered that if there was any pornography on the computer -- not that he saw any -- it was probably deleted by Arias' former defense team during a visit to Mesa police headquarters in June 2009.
~ AZCentral
