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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - The proceedings of Erika Sandoval is nearing a close.
On Monday, the prosecution began its closing statements, arguing Sandoval should beryllium convicted of First Degree Murder, lying successful hold for sidesplitting her ex-husband and Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green.
The proceedings is astir 3 months in. It began connected Feb. 6, which is precisely 10 years to the time of Green’s death.
“Daniel Green connected Feb. 6, 2015, walked into his location having nary thought what was going to hap to him,” said Prosecutor David Alavezos.
Alavezos, successful his last plea to the 12 jurors, painted Sandoval arsenic an ex-wife riddled with jealousy implicit Green's caller girlfriend. He said she broke into Green’s Goshen location with the intent to kill.
The lawsuit is centered astir an Instagram representation of greenish posted of him and his caller girlfriend, Brenda Vela, the week of his death.
He said Sandoval realized Green had moved on.
“On the third, helium said helium had the champion week of his life,” said Alavezos. “That is thing the suspect could not handle. “
Call logs amusement Sandoval called Green 160 times successful the days starring up to his death, and surveillance video caught her going into his location erstwhile helium wasn’t there.
She testified she grabbed a weapon disconnected the refrigerator and different weapon from his bedroom.
Sandoval said during her apprehension that she killed Green to get custody of their child, past changed her communicative a fewer days later, saying she didn’t termination Green and that a antheral held her gunpoint aft she had breached successful and that helium was the 1 who killed the Exeter cop.
Sandoval’s archetypal proceedings successful 2019 ended successful a mistrial owed to a hung jury.
During that proceedings and the proceedings underway now, she claimed she went into the location to snoop around. She testified she thought Green would beryllium astatine the gym for a mates of hours, and was shocked to perceive him get location early.
Right earlier she heard Green travel home, she claims she saw inappropriate photos successful a safe, making her acrophobic for their son’s safety. No pictures were ever found.
Sandoval said she panicked and hid successful their two-year-old son’s chamber closet, and erstwhile Green went to the bath adjacent the bedroom, she came retired and changeable him 4 times portion helium was connected the toilet.
She grabbed the guns, his phone, a brace of shoes, and a PlayStation and got escaped of them connected the mode backmost to Visalia astatine the Betty Drive exit successful Traver.
Sandoval picked up her son, showed up to her taxation assignment late, and past went to get frozen yogurt with her family. They said she acted normally.
“This is psychopathic behavior,” argued Alavezos. “'I americium going to play it cool.' What benignant of idiosyncratic tin bash what she did, and nary 1 tin archer that she did thing wrong? Nobody astatine all.”
Her person sent Sandoval a quality clipping showing instrumentality enforcement connected Green’s street. Sandoval and her person get astatine the house, wherever Sandoval said she knew successful her gut thing had happened to Daniel.
Detectives question her astir their rocky relationship. Sandoval lied and told them that she hadn’t seen him successful a week, and that the past clip she was astatine the location was astir 4 weeks ago.
The officers asked if Green had immoderate enemies. She said that helium was “the astir hated bull successful Exeter” and that “they telephone him the White Devil”.
The adjacent day, investigators telephone Sandoval successful for questioning, and she confesses to sidesplitting Green aft they said they had video of her successful the home. In Sandoval’s purse, they recovered a sticky enactment with Brenda’s sanction written connected it and her commencement year.
The prosecution is seeking premeditated execution and the decease penalty. Alavezos volition resume closing arguments Tuesday greeting successful Porterville.
Sandoval had a backstage lawyer the archetypal clip astir but is present being represented by respective Public Defenders, including attorneys Morgan Blankenship and Megan Casebeer.
Her attorneys reason the decease of Daniel Green was Manslaughter, coating him arsenic the aggressor successful the relationship. They reason that aft years of abuse, and aft seeing the photos Sandoval snapped and has regretted it ever since.
The defence is expected to contiguous its closing arguments either Tuesday day oregon Wednesday. Court volition beryllium acheronian connected Thursday and Friday and is expected to resume with deliberations connected Monday, May 5.
