Brian Skoloff

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Phoenix arena to lose US Airways Center name

Brian Skoloff · September 4, 2014 12:05 am

Arizona lobbyist gets community service, probation

Brian Skoloff · January 27, 2014 8:25 pm

Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot to the head in 2011 during a mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., sits ready with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss legislation to curb gun violence. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tucson remembers Gabrielle Giffords shooting with services

Brian Skoloff · January 8, 2014 5:00 am

Virginia Aguiar, right, comforts Tiffany Sarmient as she cries in frustration after it was announced the jury deadlocked on the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial out in front of Maricopa County Superior Court Thursday, May 23, 2013, in Phoenix. Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in his suburban Phoenix home, so a scheduled July 18 retrial was announced by the judge. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arias foreman: Sentencing decision unfair to jury

Brian Skoloff · May 24, 2013 4:00 am

Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set

josh-hoffner, Brian Skoloff · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Judge Sherry Stephens looks at a question from the jury with prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, and defense attorneys Jennifer Wilmott and Kirk Nurmi, right, on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix . Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberating

josh-hoffner, Brian Skoloff · May 22, 2013 4:00 am

Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

Jodi Arias asks for life term; jury deliberates

Brian Skoloff · May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Jodi Arias looks at her family after being found of guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in their suburban Phoenix home, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

Cheers, tears at Arias 1st-degree murder verdict

Cristina Silva, Brian Skoloff · May 8, 2013 4:00 am

Prosecutor Juan Martinez looks on during the cross examination of Dr. Janeen DeMarte during the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander in 2008. Arias claims self-defense but faces a potential death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

Arias defense tries to discredit state witness

Brian Skoloff · April 18, 2013 4:00 am

Jodi Arias, right, talks to her attorney, Jennifer Wilmott during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing Travis Alexander, in 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

Defense witness: Arias is not a jealous stalker

Brian Skoloff · April 11, 2013 4:00 am

Prosecutor paints Jodi Arias as manipulative liar

Brian Skoloff · April 9, 2013 4:00 am

Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, April 4, 2013. Arias is charged with murder in the death of lover Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace, Pool)

Heated exchanges between Arias prosecutor, expert

Brian Skoloff · April 8, 2013 4:00 am