12:49 a.m. EDT October 29, 2014  PHOENIX — The prosecution in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial finished its summary of the facts of the murder Tuesday with a sputtering exchange of objections as jurors viewed and listened to X-rated evidence for a fifth day in a row.

The courtroom will be dark Wednesday, but when trial resumes Thursday, the defense attorneys will begin to present mitigating evidence they hope will persuade the jury to bring back a sentence of life in prison, instead of death, for Arias, 34.

A first jury convicted Arias of murder in 2013, but was unable to reach a unanimous decision on the life or death sentence, prompting the sentencing retrial.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez had controlled the courtroom Monday, showing texts and e-mails and playing voice mails that Arias had sent to her victim, Travis Alexander, after he was already dead to try to deflect suspicion away from herself. Martinez played damning videos of her lies to Mesa Detective Esteban Flores during interrogation.

But on Tuesday, the defense took the offensive.

In his opening statements, Martinez had said that Alexander was afraid of Arias because she was a stalker.

On Tuesday, defense attorney Kirk Nurmi displayed the pornographic closeup photos that Alexander took of Arias' private parts in the hours before he was killed, and asked if it suggested Alexander was afraid of Arias.

The two lovers photographed each other in the nude, and then Alexander was apparently killed while Arias was photographing him in the shower where he was found dead five days later, with a bullet in his head, a slit throat and nearly 30 stab wounds.

The last photo on the camera's memory card showed Alexander bleeding on the floor.

All of the photos bore time stamps. Nurmi spent time with the shower photos, several of which showed Alexander vulnerable and facing away from the camera.

Nurmi pointed out the 24- or 16-second lapses between the photos, noting that Arias would have had plenty of time to kill Alexander when he wasn't looking, rather than when he was sitting on the shower floor looking at her, as seen in later shots. Nurmi made the jury sit through a 40-minute lurid phone sex conversation between the lovers that Arias had recorded on her mobile phone a month before the murder.

In the conversation, the two moan as if they are having orgasms.

What is most clear from the recorded conversation is that the two were fond of each other, and knew each other intimately.

Martinez came back angrily when it was his turn to requestion Flores, the Mesa detective, on the stand. But Nurmi consistently cut him off with objections.

Martinez got Flores to say that the phone with the sex recording had never been analyzed by Mesa police, in effect, questioning its authenticity.

Nurmi responded that if the prosecution wanted to analyze the phone, the defense would have turned it over. The decision not to analyze the phone rested with "the man in the orange tie," he said as he pointed to Martinez.