Cross-examiners question Erika Sandoval for murder of her ex-husband

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A confessed but not convicted killer, Erika Sandoval, continues to attest successful her ain defense.

The tribunal was backmost successful league Monday arsenic she stands proceedings for the execution of her ex-husband Daniel Green.

"Did you instantly regret shooting and sidesplitting Daniel?" the defence lawyer asked Sandoval.

"Of course," replies Sandoval.

"Do you inactive regret shooting and sidesplitting Daniel?" asked the defence attorney.

"Every day," Sandoval asked.

Sandoval admitted to shooting and sidesplitting Green successful 2015.

She told a assemblage during the archetypal proceedings that she broke into his location to cod immoderate of their child's belongings.

Ultimately, a justice declared a mistrial aft a 12 to 1 hung jury; astir thought Sandoval was guilty.

But the defence says she was a battered ex-wife and a acrophobic mother.

"I freaked out, I didn't adjacent cognize what I was doing. No thought was enactment into it," says Sandoval.

In tribunal Monday, Sandoval was cross-examined by the prosecution, including a forbidden video telephone with her son, from jail, wherever Sandoval sings, "The itsy bitsy spider went up the h2o spout, down came the rainfall and washed the spider out."

Lead Prosecutor David Alavezos asks, "The video proves that you violated those rules, didn't it?"

Sandoval says, "Correct."

Alavezos besides questioned Sandoval connected however precisely she changeable Green.

"I don't adjacent cognize if I had my eyes open, I conscionable remember... I don't know, it happened truthful rapidly and truthful fast. I cognize I didn't get adjacent the bathtub. I was frightened to get adjacent the tub," responds Sandoval.

Emotional dependable recordings, which showcased the troubled narration betwixt Sandoval and Green, were played for the jury.

An speech betwixt Green and Sandoval ends successful Green saying, "So I'm going to permission you alone, don't accidental a (expletive) happening to maine portion I'm inactive here. My member is coming over, truthful conscionable support your (expletive) rima unopen and enactment successful here."

A transgression researcher besides testified successful tribunal connected Monday afternoon.

Sandoval volition beryllium backmost successful tribunal this week.

The Tulare County District Attorney's bureau expects the proceedings to spell for respective much weeks, done the period of April and into May.

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