knife and then going after my wife and my daughter. when i wake up, i cannot establish what is real, what is a dream. i have even gone through the house searching through rooms, shaking my family to wake them up to make sure that they are alive. my wife has woken me up out of nightmares because i was screaming in my sleep. >> to have travis taken so barbarically is beyond any words we can find to describe our horrific loss. i cannot adequately express how much we will miss our brother. >> it looks like jodi arias will actually take the stand during this phase. the defense said today that she will talk to the jury, not about what happened, but about who she is. there's been yet another bombshell in the case. word that arias' defense lawyers actually tried to withdraw from the case after she was convicted, a request the judge denied. joining us again is cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, also criminal defense attorney mark geragos, co-author of mistrial, an inside look at how the justice system works and sometimes doesn't.