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#93: Kirk Nurmi and the Defense of Jodi Arias

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Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The RCP Team (Jim Clemente, Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti) welcome author and former defense attorney Kirk Nurmi to the show. He discusses his strained relationship with defendant Jodi Arias in the trial for the murder of Travis Alexander, a case that became a media circus.


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0:07.0

I mean, Elle Kirkner, me everybody, is Jodie Erius' forced defense lawyer.

0:13.6

How many times did this guy try to get off the trial?

0:16.8

Well, I'm not saying that I want to off the case because I thought she was guilty.

0:20.7

What I'm saying is I wanted off the case because I had a sense of what it would become

0:26.1

in terms of the media exposure, in terms of what she was going to do.

0:30.6

And I didn't want to be a part of it.

0:31.8

I didn't want to do capital-like anymore.

0:33.3

I wanted to move into private practice.

0:35.3

Got it.

0:36.3

I do remember as I testified to this, I'm sorry, I think I would have testified to this

0:52.3

in a 2014 trial.

0:55.1

I do remember the moment when the knife in the Travis' throat and he was conscious.

1:11.3

He was still trying to attack me.

1:15.1

It was I who was trying to get away, not Travis, and I finally did.

1:18.8

I never wanted it to be that way, Judge.

1:22.6

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile.

1:24.6

This is your host, Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler

1:28.6

and currently writer or producer on CVS's Criminal Minds.

1:32.8

And with me today from London is...

1:35.2

Laura Richards, former Criminal Behavioral Analyst at New Scotland Yard and Founder and Director

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