Accused murderer's public defenders push back on jailhouse phone call

Prosecutors volition person the accidental to connection a last rebuttal statement aft the defence finishes with its evidence.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Defense attorneys presented caller grounds successful tribunal Wednesday arsenic they argued Filimon Hurtado was insane and disconnected his medicine successful May 2022.

Hurtado is accused of sidesplitting his young niece and nephew erstwhile helium allegedly acceptable this location connected occurrence successful West Central Fresno.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to 2 counts of execution and 1 number of attempted execution and arson by crushed of insanity.

"And what did helium accidental successful regards to hallucinations oregon delusions?" nationalist defender Roy Park asked the caregiver who evaluated Hurtado astatine the Fresno County Jail.

"I judge things that different radical don't oregon don't oregon can't arsenic reality,'" the caregiver testified that Hurtado said.

Hurtado's nationalist defenders accidental helium was suffering from terrible intelligence wellness issues erstwhile helium allegedly acceptable the fire.

"He said Bipolar 1 and perchance schizoaffective," the caregiver testified astir Hurtado.

She evaluated Hurtado little than 2 months aft the deadly occurrence connected the aesculapian level of the Fresno County Jail.

It is wherever Hurtado called his begetter connected a recorded line. Prosecutors played the telephone past week, and jurors heard from Hurtado himself.

"I made a mistake," helium said. "I did thing stupid."

But connected Wednesday, the caregiver testified that Hurtado was mostly successful compliance with his medications astatine the jail.

The nationalist defenders accidental Hurtado's mindset successful May of 2022 is what matters, not his mindset astatine the jailhouse erstwhile helium made the telephone and was connected his medication.

"With regards to Hurtado's medicine compliance successful the period of June 2022, with regards to Zyprexa, what was his compliance?" Park asked.

"It was 100 percent," the caregiver said.

Prosecutors person already presented their grounds to the jury, but they volition person the accidental to connection a last rebuttal statement aft the defence finishes with its evidence.

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