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The phase. >> they have to do a mini trial again to get jurors up to speed? >> you have to do a voer deer and jury selection that could take weeks to find death penalty authorized jurors to sit there then you go through a mini trial. you have the opening statement. >> it could take months and months? >> yeah, from here. we are not going to do that. >> if the jury is hung again the judge cannot give a death sentence. it will be a life sentence. >> the judge could also decide parole possibly down the road. >> the judge could decide a real life sentence or a life sentence with eligibility of paro...

There could be a verdict on this sometime during "studio b." the jury will get th likely in the next couple of minutes and they could return a verdict very quickly. if there is not an aggravating factor, that's it. the jury will then be excused and jodi arias will then be sentenced sometime in the next 30 to 60 days. if there is an aggravating factor, the very same jury will come back and as early as late today, begin the penalty phase into jodi arias, kind of like a mini trial where the families of both arias and alexander will testify and the prosecution could play the interview where jodi a...

As this aggravation phase begins. they're going to have to determine whether jodi arias killed alexander in an extremely cruel way. we're going to hear a medical examiner testify tomorrow about that, we may see some of those graphic photos again that have been displayed earlier of the dozens of stab wounds of the bullet hole through his head, and the most graphic of all, his throat slashed wide open. we could go through all of that again. >> i know this starts tomorrow afternoon, do you have any sense of how long the sentencing phase will go? >> i know that uninimity is required for any kind o...

Afternoon, do you have any sense of how long the sentencing phase will go? >> i know that uninimity is required for any kind of death penalty verdict? >> that's right. we don't have a sense of how long it's going to take. they describe it as a mini-trial. our understanding is that the prosecution in addition to the medical examiner can call up members of travis alexander's family, friends, witnesses. there's going to be closing statements from both sides. if the jury decides that the prosecution has proved its case, this was an extremely cool murder it moves on to the penalty phase. the defens...

>> okay, okay, danny and sunny hostin, thank you. again, that happens in less than two hours, this mini trial, penalty or death phase beginning in phoenix. we'll take you there. back in cleveland, as one of the kidnapping victims recovers at home, her grandmother spent all these years wondering is my baby alive. coming up next, you'll hear the emotional message to amanda berry. >> amanda, you hang in there, honey. you be strong. i'm praying for you. and i love you. where tonight we've switched their steaks with walmart's choice premium steak. it's a steakover. it's tender. good flavor. it ju...