Jodi Arias has denied claims that she considered having a prosecutor killed, after her former cellmate appeared on a FOX 10 interview that's caused the convicted killers' lawyers to call for a change of venue for her sentencing.
Arias maintained on Monday that she never verbally threatened to have a hit taken out on prosecutor Juan Martinez, taking to Twitter from behind bars to make a statement.
Fox reporter Troy Hayden wrote that he was in contact with the woman found guilty of killing her ex-boyfriend by stabbing him 30 times, slitting his throat and shooting him in the forehead.
"Over the weekend, Arias attacked the story through her Twitter page," Hayden stated. "We shared private direct messages confirming for me that I was dealing with Jodi herself. I then asked her publicly, are you denying you said those things? She replied, 'Of course.'"
The aforementioned story concerned Cassandra Collins, who shared a cell with Arias before her trial began earlier this year and described the 33-year-old woman as "dangerous...very dangerous."
Collins also described Arias' strange fascination with prosecutor Juan Martinez - she often spoke of the lawyer in a threatening manner. Yet, on a few occasions, she wondered why Martinez "didn't love her."
Arias' legal team responded to the story by asking the judge once more for a different venue.
"The nature and the context of the report aired by FOX 10 infected the [proceedings] with extra-judicial information that directly attacks her case...and presents aggravating circumstances that are of the nature that they would not be legal for the jury to consider," the defense team wrote.
Arias will appear in court on Tuesday for a pre-trial meeting ahead of her sentencing, which has still not yet been decided. Prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty.