The trial for Jodi Arias, the woman who stands accused for the 2008 Arizona murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, is expected to resume on Tuesday because the courts were closed on Monday for President's Day. 

Arias' first-degree murder trial was canceled on Thursday, Feb. 14, because Maricopa County Judge Sherry Stephens was out sick, according to a spokesperson.

Arias stands accused of murdering Alexander in his Mesa, Ariz., home on June 4, 2008. When police found the victim, they saw that he had been shot in the face, stabbed 27 times and his throat was slit from ear to ear. Arias lied at first and said he was killed during a home invasion, though she later admitted she killed Alexander as an act of self-defense because he attacked her.

A friend of Alexander's, however, came forward to the media and compared Arias and her ex-lover's relationship to a drug addiction.

Dave Hall, a friend of Alexander's for 11 years, knew the details of his friend and Arias' sexually charged relationship. Though Alexander and Arias were Mormons, who are forbidden to have sex because of the religion's chastity laws, Hall said their off-and-on relationship was "addictive."

"Jodi was Travis' drug of choice. Anyone that thinks sex can't be addictive is nuts," Hall told Radar Online. "Just look at Tiger Woods, and how many rehab clinics there are for people addicted to pornography and had their marriages destroyed because of it, and everything else like that. He really enjoyed that part of it, obviously, but it took him down a path where it turned into a fatal attraction."

Hall admitted he felt uncomfortable when he heard Alexander's voice in the sex tapes Arias' defense lawyers played in court last week.

"It wasn't easy to hear Travis in the sex tapes, it is not the Travis that any of us ever saw or knew in public," he said.

Hall called "Alexander a "gentleman" who was "very nice" so he believes that Arias "encouraged" Alexander to become more sexual after hearing the racy recordings that played in the courtroom.

"Quite honestly, hearing Jodi say things like, 'that's so debasing, and I love it,' and 'I'm looking for a man that is even more freaky,' it sounds like her trying to encourage him to be more dirty and nasty and raise the bar," Hall said. "Travis obviously had this life with Jodi where he could play that role of the dirty pimp and live that persona and she would continue to encourage him to do it."

Hall revealed that Alexander's friends did not approve of Arias, especially after they learned that she had stalked him and slashed his tires. Prosecutors addressed Arias' stalking earlier in the trial.

"We saw that he was not at the same level of spirituality, he wasn't as happy, he was more stressed out in his life and there was so much drama with her," Hall said. "Having his tires slashed, being stalked, just all the crap going on. No one signs up for this when they go out on a date. We all thought 'get rid of this girl!' There are so many other better women out there."

If Arias is convicted of the murder she will likely face the death penalty, becoming the fourth woman in Arizona's history to die by lethal injection.

Watch the free live stream of day 16 of Arias' murder trial in the video below beginning at 12:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

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