Sex tapes driving Arias’ friends out of court

By Graham Winch

updated 12:27 PM EST, Wed February 06, 2013

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Jodi Arias’ friends tell In Session they’re staying out of court Wednesday.

They say they won't be there for Arias’ testimony because they don’t want to hear recordings of phone sex conversations between Arias and Travis Alexander.

They say they are acting out of respect for Arias.

The conversations are expected to be graphic. Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott talked about one of the phone calls during her opening statement, when she told the jury that Alexander told Arias she sounded like a 12-year-old girl having an orgasm for the first time. The explicit phone call could support the defense’s theory that Alexander was a sexual deviant who abused Arias.

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Soon after Alexander's body was found in June 2008, Arias told police she was not involved in his death. Later, she changed her story and told investigators that she witnessed two intruders break in and kill him. She eventually admitted to killing Alexander, saying it was in self-defense.

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