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>> reporter: the plaintiffs, jackson's mother catherine and his three kids, blame aeg. the lawyer says there was never a signed contract, and murray who was never paid anything served only at the pleasure of michael jackson. >> if you look at the draft explicitly, he was chosen there by michael jackson to be there at michael jackson's behest. michael jackson was the only one who could get rid of him at will. >> reporter: possibly testify, jackson's 16-year-old son prince michael and his daughter paris. also on the list but not expected to testify, the artist prince who had his own history with...

Has got to do it with michael jackson. so, the pressure is on conrad murray. >> what is the dollar amount? what will the dollar amount be, in your mind? >> reporter: that's going to be up to a jury, and they are asking for the amount of money that michael jackson would have earned if he had lived out the rest of his life. >> $40 billion? >> that's speculative, billions, yes. but it's also very speculative because of michael jackson and the person he was, the life he led, and thereby you have aeg's defense, too, they are saying michael jackson is responsible himself for his own death, because h...

It could be just a drop in the bucket. if she's convicted and gets the death penalty, that number soars into the millions. christine romans joins us and jean casarez correspondence for "in session" on trutv. jean to you, almost spent your entire lifetime in a courtroom, is it fair to make a statement that putting someone to death costs a lot more than putting someone in prison for life, correct? >> it costs much, much more. no question about it. and, you know, this case right here is one that's mounting. we now know that it's over $800,000 that the defense has spent so far. and the hearing is ...

Now to phoenix, where jodi arias' defense is trying to convince a jury that she just cannot remember all the details of the killing of her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander. the defense psychologist returns to the stand in just two hours. no one is denying that she shot him and that she stabbed him, 29 times, in fact, when you include the defensive wounds. but she says her memory of that night is foggy. what she does remember, however, some extraordinarily explicit details of their sex life and that he threatened her, she says. our jean casarez, correspondent for "in session" on trutv, has been i...

You just showed last week, as she had to acknowledge that she did all these things because she didn't remember anything when her lawyer asked her questions, and she barely cried when her lawyer asked her questions. it was really very moving. the family members of the victim travis alexander have been crying periodically throughout the trial. jodi arias' mother, other family members here all the time. obviously, emotional also but less so than the victim's family. >> oh, my goodness, what an awful thing. beth karas is the correspondent for "in session" on trutv. thanks, beth. pruettal. the deta...