King Jordan Radio

SEASON 5 EPISODE 20 King Jordan Radio welcomes back Former Attorney for Jodi Arias ,Kirk Nurmi the long-running Arias case massively screwed up the Arizona lawyer's life. When the televised courtroom drama became a worldwide sensation, Nurmi became a target of public hate for defending her. While working at the Maricopa County Public Defender's Office in 2008, Nurmi's supervisor handed him the Arias file, telling him, "It's a unique case." Nurmi saw immediately that the murder case was complicated, and he found out soon enough that Arias was a difficult client.At first, he wasn't worried. At 49, he was in good health, having shed so many pounds between Arias' two trials. He even had self-published a book about his weight loss.After undergoing surgery to extract the lump, however, Nurmi was told he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Shock soon was replaced by near devastation. "Within the course of a month or so, I had gone from a guy who felt great and was planning on getting back to work after a few months off to a gu