Defense attorneys for convicted murderer Jodi Arias filed a request to change the venue for her sentencing retrial on Tuesday arguing that the amount of publicity the case received in the Phoenix area has made it impossible for Arias to get a fair trial, according to the Associated Press.

In the motion Kirk Nurmi argues that research conducted by the defense team has shown that 70 percent of the media coverage the trial received was from Maricopa County and that the bulk of it has been "unfair and prejudicial," according to the Associated Press.

"Both the nature and extent of the publicity surrounding Ms. Arias' case render it impossible that the accused will receive a fair trial in this capital case if it is tried in Maricopa County," Nurmi said in the motion.

This is the third motion that the defense has filed related to media coverage of the trial as preparations for the retrial of the sentencing phase move at a glacial pace. Previously the defense has requested that cameras be banned from the courtroom and that jurors be forced to turn over their Twitter information, if they have a Twitter account, in order to be monitored throughout the trial.

In May the 33-year-old Arias was convicted of murdering her former lover, Travis Alexander. Alexander was stabbed close to thirty times, shot in the head, and had his throat slit in the crime that was considered by the jury to be sufficiently cruel to warrant the death penalty. While the jury was able to determine that Arias should be eligible for a trip to death row they were unable to reach a conclusion and the sentencing phase was declared a mistrial.

The Arias murder case caught the imagination of both the media and the American public in part due to the gruesome nature of the crime and in part due to the sexually explicit details that were revealed in the trial to a nationwide audience. The case has become the subject of multiple made-for-television movies as well as at least three books.

The media attention of the Arias case has already had an effect on other cases in Maricopa County, two recent trials banned cameras from the courtrooms in an effort to avoid a media circus like the one created by the Arias trial, according to the Arizona Republic.

"No case in Maricopa County in recent memory has attracted more media interest than the Arias trial," David Bodney, a First Amendment attorney, told the Arizona Republic. "The defendant's attempt to ban camera coverage would effectively deprive the public the opportunity to observe the sentencing phase of this case. A viewer blackout would thwart the public's ability to follow the Arias trial to its conclusion without any corresponding benefit to the parties or the process."

Judge Sherry Stephens has yet to set a date for a retrial. The motion to change venue as well as the other motions will most likely be dealt with at a pretrial hearing scheduled for Sept. 16.