For the third time in four days, the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial ended with a juror dispute. The jury wasn't expected to return to the courtroom until Monday.

Two alternate jurors already have been dismissed as the jury grapples with life in prison or death by lethal injection for the 34-year-old woman already found guilty of the brutal 2008 slaying of then-boyfriend Travis Alexander, 30 at the Mesa, Az. home they shared.

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A juror was dismissed on Wednesday for talking to the media. Judge Sherry Stephens, who also presided over the first trial, dismissed the juror for speaking to a journalist the juror thought was legal analyst and TV host Nancy Grace. The juror also didn't wear the required juror badge

Another alternate juror was dismissed Tuesday for missing a court appearance due to a family emergency. Should another juror be dismissed, the alternate pool will shrink to four potential replacement jurors.

Before the undisclosed juror issue, defense attorney Kirk Nurmi grilled Mesa Police Detective Esteban Flores about testimony he gave during a 2009 preliminary hearing on the case. Flores contradicted some murder details he gave at the time.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez presented arguments related to the key issue of premeditation in the murder. Jurors in the sensational 2013 trial televised live deadlocked 8-4 on the death penalty, which required an unanimous verdict based on premeditated murder. The alternative penalty would be life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Arias, 34, was found guilty of the grisly slaying of then-boyfriend Travis Alexander, 30, at their Mesa, Ariz. home in 2008. She stabbed him 29 times before shooting him in the face.

The sentencing retrial won't be televised live like the first trial although cameras will be allowed in the courtroom. Defense attorneys successfully argued live telecasts would cause some witnesses not to testify.

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