Fresno County jury deliberating in Huron murder case

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Attorneys connected some sides made their last propulsion successful tribunal connected Monday to the assemblage that volition soon determine Andrew Leon's fate.

"This is simply a execution case," authoritative Kendall Reynolds said. "Believability and credibility is what this lawsuit truly comes down to. Who bash you believe?"

"The existent question I privation you to inquire yourself is, if helium planned to termination April, wherefore did helium wait?" nationalist defender Brendan Bergh said.

Andrew Leon has pleaded not blameworthy to murder. He is accused of shooting and sidesplitting his then-girlfriend's mother, April Diaz.

Leon showed up astatine Diaz's Huron location successful November 2023 and wanted to talk to her daughter, his girlfriend.

But Diaz refused to fto Leon inside. That is erstwhile prosecutors accidental Leon changeable Diaz 11 times, firing until his weapon jammed earlier moving away.

"He knows he's blameworthy of murder," Reynolds said. "It's up to you to determine however to construe that evidence."

Leon has already admitted to pulling the trigger, but his lawyer argues it was successful self-defense aft the unfortunate flashed a knife.

"That's what this lawsuit is," Bergh said. "It's astir what Andrew believed."

Prosecutors argued it was Leon who acceptable the country by showing up with a weapon successful manus and racking it. They accidental helium produced the information that helium is present utilizing to warrant his actions.

"Mr. Leon made up seeing this knife," Reynolds said. "Made up seeing April travel astatine him similar Mike Myers, and arsenic I illustrated during cross-examination, that didn't happen."

With prosecutors branding him a murderer, Leon -- conscionable 21 -- watched intently and, astatine times, spoke with his attorney.

"The District Attorney had not proven their lawsuit beyond a tenable doubt," Bergh said.

Jury deliberations are acceptable to resume connected Tuesday morning. If convicted, Andrew Leon could look up to 50 years to beingness successful authorities prison.

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