Jodi Arias Trial Update Today: Attorneys for Jodi Arias, who was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8 for the brutal death of Travis Alexander, announced that they want to bar live coverage of the Jodi Arias trial.

In the months after her arrest, Jodi Arias gave interviews to national television shows. Jodi Arias also granted an interview on the day that she was convicted. On the day that jurors started their deliberations on whether she should live or die for her crimes, Jodi Arias gave half a dozen interviews.

Now that Jodi Arias is facing a retrial to determine her punishment, her attorneys asked a judge to bar live TV coverage inside the courtroom.

At a hearing on Friday, CNN's Attorney David Brodney told a judge "She has voluntarily thrust herself into the vortex of this public controversy. It is unfair to deprive the public ... because someone can't control her own speech."

In May, the jury found Jodi Arias, 33, guilty of first-degree murder. In the penalty phase a new jury will have three sentencing options: death, natural life in prison, or life with a chance of release after 25 years. To get a death penalty, under Arizona state law, prosecutor Juan Martinez and County Attorney need a jury. But not to give Jodi Arias a life sentence. If the prosecutors drop the intent to seek the death penalty, the decision will be made by Judge Sherry Stephens. If the Jodi Arias judge imposes a sentence of 25 to life, there is no mechanism for a shorter release unless she gets clemency by the governor.

Jodi Arias Trial Update Today: Defense attorneys for the former waitress and budding photographer also requested a venue change for second penalty phase of trial due to "excessive publicity."

Lawyers for Jodi Arias say that the intense publicity that swallowed up the first Jodi Arias trial will happen during the second penalty phase. Jodi Arias' lawyers say that will hindering her ability to get a fair trial. Her attorneys also want to sequester the new jury. Jodi Arias' lawyers cited thousands of television news shows and newspaper articles that were written or broadcast about Arias throughout the first trial which lasted about five months. Jodi Arias' lawyers also pointed to a Lifetime movie about the Jodi Arias trial that attorneys said attracted 3.1 million viewers.

Jodi Arias' attorney also want to movie the retrial out of the Phoenix metropolitan. They say she's already suffered from excessive publicity. Lawyers asked the judge to compel jurors to release their Twitter user names so the court can monitor their accounts to make sure they don't tweet about the case.

 Jodi Arias operated her own Twitter account during the trial. She used a third using a third party to post comments. As of Friday, Jodi Arias' Twitter account had over 78,000 followers.

Prosecutors argued that the defense efforts fail to acknowledge Arias' "own role in creating publicity about the trial." In a motion reading "She cannot create what she now considers a problem and then expect the court to change its procedure to solve the problem."

Jodi Arias' lawyers asked judge Sherry Stephens to vacate the jury's ruling that the murder was "especially cruel." This is the classification that allowed the prosecution to argue for the death penalty. Jodi Arias' lawyers argued that "especially cruel" is too broad of a term for jurors who aren't legal experts to fairly judge what makes one killing more cruel than another. Arizona law defines "cruel manner" in terms of the victim's pain and suffering. It didn't take into the mitigating factors of the crime, like Arias' age or the "unusual and substantial duress" she was suffering. The filing challenged a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled defendants have the right for jurors to determine the aggravating factors that qualify them for the death penalty.

The first Jodi Arias trial ended with a conviction but not a sentence. Jodi Arias' murder conviction stands. Under Arizona law, prosecutors have the option of pursuing a second penalty phase with a new jury to get the death sentence. If the second jury fails to reach a verdict, the death penalty would be removed as an option. The judge will then sentence Jodi Arias to  life behind bars or be decide that she may be eligible for release after 25 years.