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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The defence squad continued its arguments successful the proceedings against Erika Sandoval connected Monday.
The greeting began with the tribunal playing an hours-long audio recording of 1 of Sandoval’s testimonies to constabulary successful 2015.
She’s accused of sidesplitting her ex-husband Daniel Green connected Feb. 6, 2015, who was an Exeter Police officer.
She was arrested soon aft his assemblage was recovered successful his bathtub.
SANDOVAL’S INITIAL TESTIMONY
After she was arrested, she told constabulary she killed Green due to the fact that she wanted afloat custody of their son. She adjacent asked wherever she deed Green erstwhile she changeable him.
The adjacent day, she took constabulary to the location she allegedly dumped his belongings. There they recovered 2 guns, a brace of men’s shoes and Green’s phone.
However, a mates of days later, Sandoval called the constabulary saying she had much accusation to offer.
SANDOVAL CHANGES HER STORY
They brought her successful for a recorded interview, wherever she told them a precise antithetic story.
She says she really lone went to Green’s location that time to retrieve immoderate of their son’s apparel and his PS4 and that she ne'er killed Green.
She told them she was bending implicit to prime up the PS4 erstwhile an chartless antheral enactment a weapon to her head, telling her to “shut the f*** up” and to not look astatine him.
She says helium led her to her son’s closet and told her to get wrong and not look astatine him.
She told constabulary she ne'er saw his look oregon body, but got a glimpse of his hand, which she said had a tattoo connected it.
Then she said she heard Green travel location and spell to the bathroom.
She says she kept her caput betwixt her knees and heard gunshots.
When she got retired of the closet to investigate, she told constabulary she recovered Green’s assemblage dormant successful his bathroom.
The serviceman asked respective follow-up questions successful the recording, including wherefore she would archer them that she killed Green conscionable days prior.
She answered that she thought her lad would beryllium successful information if she didn’t instrumentality the blame.
The serviceman asked Sandoval wherefore she was lying.
Sandoval insisted she was telling the truth, but the serviceman told her determination were cameras each implicit the country and they recovered nary grounds of different idiosyncratic astatine the scene.
The serviceman adjacent pointed retired that the gait had caller writer and nary of it was pressed down by different person.
“That idiosyncratic doesn’t exist,” the serviceman insisted.
Then the speech got heated.
“You are not telling america the truth, Erika! … This is the astir ridiculous prevarication I’ve ever heard and you are going to spell successful beforehand of a assemblage with that,” helium said.
SANDOVAL ADMITS TO KILLING GREEN
Years aboriginal during her 2019 trial, Sandoval tearfully admitted to sidesplitting Green.
That trial ended successful a hung jury, though, with remaining questions implicit whether she committed manslaughter oregon murder.
The defence present insists it was manslaughter, arguing Sandoval was driven to the enactment by Green’s alleged abuse.
DEFENSE CLAIMS IT WASN’T MURDER
They brought up respective witnesses Monday, who knew Sandoval earlier and aft she met Green.
“You know, astatine first, similar I said, her property was good, but past erstwhile they started dating, yes her property did change,” her erstwhile coworker Archie Marshall said.
“She wasn’t truthful bubbly anymore. She looked frail, sad, she didn’t look healthy,” Sandoval’s aged person Angelica Ramirez said.
Ramirez testified that she often encouraged Sandoval to interruption up with Green.
Then she told the communicative of a clip she invited Sandoval to a household gathering.
“I was trying to get Erika to travel implicit since I don’t get to spot her, and helium didn’t similar that… ‘You fu***** abdominous h** bi*** sl**. You don’t cognize sh**. She’s not coming over,’” Ramirez said, recounting Green’s effect to the invitation.
Ramirez says she saw Sandoval with bruises but ne'er witnessed immoderate progressive carnal abuse.
In 2011, some Sandoval and Green were arrested for home violence.
The tribunal volition reconvene Tuesday morning.
