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(NewsNation) — Sarah Boone has been sentenced to beingness successful situation for leaving her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, successful a suitcase to dice backmost successful 2020.
Four years aft she was arrested for Torres’ death, Boone was recovered blameworthy of second-degree execution successful precocious October aft 90 minutes of deliberation.
Her lawyer, James Owens, told NewsNation he’d encouraged her to instrumentality a plea woody anterior to the verdict.
She was “shocked” by the blameworthy verdict and thought possibly the assemblage would convict her of a lesser charge, according to Owens.
What was Sarah Boone accused of?
Boone zipped her fellow into a suitcase during an alleged crippled of hide-and-seek, leaving him wrong overnight
She initially told detectives with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office that she and Torres had been playing hide-and-seek connected Feb. 23, 2020, successful their Winter Park, Florida, residence erstwhile they thought it would beryllium comic for Torres to get into the suitcase.
They had been drinking and she decided to spell to sleep, reasoning her fellow could get retired of the suitcase connected his own, she told detectives, according to an apprehension report.
When she woke up the adjacent morning, she didn’t find Torres but past remembered helium was successful the suitcase. She past unzipped the suitcase and recovered him unresponsive, according to the apprehension report.
Detectives charged Boone with execution aft they recovered videos connected her cellphone showing Torres yelling from wrong the suitcase that helium couldn’t respire and repeatedly calling retired Boone’s name, according to the apprehension report.
Suitcase execution proceedings
During her trial, Boone testified that past convulsive incidents betwixt her and Torres caused her to comprehend a menace of imminent harm and that she acted successful self-defense by keeping him successful the suitcase.
“Yeah, that’s what you bash erstwhile you choke me,” Boone said successful 1 of the cellphone videos from that night, according to the apprehension report. “Oh, that’s what I consciousness similar erstwhile you cheat connected me.”
An autopsy study said Torres had scratches connected his backmost and cervix and contusions to his shoulder, skull and forehead from blunt unit trauma, arsenic good arsenic a chopped adjacent his busted lip.
NewsNation's Liz Jassin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
