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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - Defense attorneys continued to physique their lawsuit successful the southbound Valley proceedings of Erika Sandoval.
She admitted to sidesplitting Exeter constabulary serviceman Daniel Green successful his Goshen location successful 2015. The 2 were joined successful 2010 and divorced successful 2011.
The Tulare County District Attorney's Office is seeking the decease punishment for execution lying successful wait, portion her defence is that the enactment was manslaughter.
Her defence hopes to person jurors that Sandoval was an abused ex-wife who snapped.
"She was precise sad," said Sandoval's erstwhile person Laura Garza erstwhile asked however Sandoval acted aft she met Green. "She would isolate herself from her family, and friends."
Laura and her sister Martha met Erika successful the aboriginal 2000s. They became adjacent friends.
Initially, they liked Green, but past things changed.
"She mislaid a batch of weight," said Laura erstwhile asked astir Sandoval's carnal changes aft gathering Green.
The 2 recounted an incidental erstwhile Green and Sandoval were dating earlier they were married. Martha says Green kept calling Sandoval's telephone erstwhile she was with friends.
When Sandoval picked up, Martha grabbed the phone.
"I told him to permission her alone, she wasn't answering, she evidently did not privation to talk to him and that is erstwhile helium got upset," said Martha.
Martha claims Green threatened to station a risqué photograph of Sandoval connected societal media and threatened her.
"He made a menace astir maine being an migrant and helium was gonna, if helium ever saw maine driving, that helium would propulsion maine implicit since I was an immigrant," said Martha.
Prosecutor David Alavezos pushed backmost and pointed to day inconsistencies with the stories and their past interaction.
The rocky narration betwixt Green and Sandoval made its mode to the workplace.
Sandoval worked arsenic a aesculapian adjunct astatine a dialysis center.
Nancy Franco, a coworker, commuted with Sandoval and she says she saw bruises.
"Do you retrieve wherever they were located?" the defence asked.
"Her face, her back."
Franco says Green showed up astatine the center, and the 2 argued.
The tumultuous narration betwixt the 2 yet led to Green not being allowed back.
"It was an knowing that helium was not welcome, and we didn't privation him successful the bureau anymore," testified Sandoval's erstwhile Supervisor Nathan Chadwick.
