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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Closing arguments continued Tuesday successful the South Valley Erika Sandoval trial.
Sandoval testified that she killed her ex-husband, Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green, 10 years ago. The question that 12 jurors volition reply is whether it was premeditated.
Prosecutor David Alavezos argues Green’s decease was 1st-Degree Murder with the peculiar condition of lying successful wait. The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the decease penalty.
“She was specified a compulsive liar, she lied astir things she didn’t adjacent person to prevarication about,” said Alavezos.
Alavezos argued to the assemblage that Sandoval had a program connected February 6, 2015.
“Why?” Alavezos asked. “I knew helium was talking to idiosyncratic other already. The 'I don’t privation to beryllium with him, but I was trying to get backmost unneurotic with him truthful I could person (son) with maine each the time,' it wasn’t going to enactment out. So, since that wasn’t going to enactment out, 'I americium going to person to bash something. And what I'm going to do, is I'm going to instrumentality and termination him. I cognize his regular and I'm going to termination him erstwhile helium is astir vulnerable, erstwhile I cognize helium volition beryllium astir vulnerable.'”
Sandoval near her enactment astatine a dialysis center. Alavezos said she intended to termination her ex-husband, Daniel Green.
“She went determination to execution Daniel,” said Alavezos.
Sandoval admitted to breaking into Green’s Goshen location 10 years ago, grabbing 2 of his guns, and hiding successful a closet. When Green arrived home, she came retired and changeable him successful the bathroom.
Sandoval grabbed the guns, a brace of shoes, Green’s phone, and a PlayStation. She got escaped of the objects adjacent Traver. She went and picked up her son, went to her taxation assignment late, and past went and got frozen yogurt with her family. Her accountant, her mother, and her member said she acted normally.
“That is simply a superior intelligence condition, to execution idiosyncratic and person your closest household subordinate that thing is wrong,” said Alavezos. “Had she gotten distant with it, she would inactive get distant with it. She would inactive beryllium acting mean today.”
Alavezos argues Sandoval’s apprehension portion tells the truth. It was recorded conscionable 1 time aft Green’s death.
“How agelong agone did you determine to bash what happened yesterday?” 1 of the investigators asked connected February 7, 2015.
“Honestly, erstwhile I got retired of work,“ responded Sandoval successful the recorded portion from 10 years ago.
When those detectives asked her why, she responded, “Why not?”
“That is simply a bully point,” said the serviceman successful the apprehension recording. "You don’t person to unrecorded with him anymore; the lone happening you person to bash is visitation, truthful wherefore not permission it astatine that?”
“I didn’t privation my lad astir him,” responded Sandoval successful the recording.
“Is that what made you marque that decision?” questioned the officer.
“He wasn’t a bully dad,” responded Sandoval.
A sticky enactment with the sanction of Green’s caller woman was recovered successful Sandoval's purse erstwhile she was arrested.
Sandoval told a overmuch antithetic communicative erstwhile she testified successful her archetypal proceedings successful 2019, which ended successful a hung assemblage oregon a mistrial, and is telling the aforesaid communicative now.
She testified she went to Green’s Goshen location 10 years agone and recovered inappropriate photos successful his safe. She testified that she snapped erstwhile Green came location aboriginal from the gym, hid successful the closet, and came retired and changeable Green aft helium said, “I americium going to ******* termination you."
The defence is expected to commencement its closing arguments connected Wednesday. If she is convicted of manslaughter, the maximum condemnation is 11 years successful California.
She has already spent 10 years down bars.
