Ex-wife of Exeter Police Officer to stand trial for his murder a second time

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - The assemblage has present been selected for the proceedings of Erika Sandoval successful Porterville. She is accused of sidesplitting Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green successful February 2015.

The proceedings begins connected Thursday, with opening statements taking spot precisely 10 years to the time that Daniel Green was changeable and killed wrong his home. The lawsuit went to proceedings successful 2019, but it was declared a mistrial owed to a hung jury. Double jeopardy does not use due to the fact that nary verdict was reached, meaning the lawsuit tin beryllium retried.

This clip around, the lawsuit proceedings volition hap astatine the Superior Court of Tulare County successful Porterville successful beforehand of Judge Juliet Boccone.

Much similar 5 years ago, Sandoval volition basal earlier a assemblage who volition find her fate. They volition person to determine if she was a battered, abused ex-wife who snapped oregon a calculated slayer jealous that Daniel Green had moved on.

The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office is seeking first-degree execution and the decease penalty.

“In our mind, we consciousness that the grounds is beardown and we are going to proceed with the aforesaid mentation that we had,” said District Attorney Tim Ward backmost successful 2019. “This is Justice delayed not justness denied.”

The question regarding the motive remains. Back successful 2019, David Alavezos was the pb prosecuting attorney. He argued Sandoval was a calculated slayer who was jealous aft seeing Green successful a societal media station with different woman. He accused her of readying the onslaught and lying successful wait. A peculiar condition that makes the lawsuit eligible for the decease penalty.

Sandoval’s erstwhile lawyer Dan Chambers painted Sandoval arsenic a battered ex-wife who snapped retired of interest for the information of their child. Sandoval does person a caller defence team. It is not wide what their strategy volition be, and whether oregon not she volition instrumentality the basal again.

The District Attorney’s Office says the proceedings is expected to past 2 and a fractional months.