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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) —A South Valley assemblage is present deliberating 4 months aft opening statements successful Erika Sandoval's trial.
Sandoval is connected proceedings for the decease of her ex-husband, Daniel Green. Green was an Exeter constabulary officer.
After respective hours of deliberation, the assemblage near connected Tuesday without a verdict. The deliberations volition proceed connected Wednesday morning.
The anticipation is gathering surrounding the lawsuit aft months of grounds and testimony.
38-year-old Erika Sandoval testified that she broke into Green's Goshen location backmost successful 2015 erstwhile helium wasn't there, grabbed 2 guns, and erstwhile helium returned home, she hid. She testified that erstwhile helium went to the bath adjacent doorway to the chamber she was in, she decided to travel retired and changeable him respective times.
Prosecutor David Alavezos got the last words to the assemblage arsenic they headed into deliberations.
"This is first-degree execution lying successful wait, clearly, it is premeditated arsenic well," said Alavezos.
Alavezos spent his last minutes attacking claims from Sandoval's lawyer from the time before, that Sandoval’s enactment connected Feb. 6, 2015, was self-defense.
“The lone idiosyncratic who had a close to self-defense successful this concern was Daniel. To travel to a antithetic decision means that immoderate idiosyncratic burglarizing idiosyncratic else's location could say, 'Well the owner, I thought they were going to termination me.' And breaking into someone's home, grabbing their guns, and arming yourself makes you the archetypal aggressor," said Alavezos.
The justice work the assemblage their assemblage instructions, and the jurors headed into a backstage room.
They volition person the eventual determination connected whether Sandoval was an abused ex-wife who snapped oregon a calculated killer.
This is the 2nd proceedings for Sandoval. In 2019, during her archetypal trial, 1 juror would not hold to a conviction, resulting successful a hung jury, which is labeled arsenic a mistrial.
