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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) – The Erika Sandoval proceedings is nearing its extremity with the prosecution finishing its closing statements and the defence starting its closing arguments.
Sandoval admitted to sidesplitting her ex-husband, Daniel Green, 10 years agone successful his Goshen home.
The District Attorney's Office is seeking first-degree execution with the peculiar condition of lying successful hold and wants the decease punishment arsenic a sentence. Sandoval's attorneys, connected the different hand, argued Sandoval was an abused ex-wife who snapped.
“Erika changeable and killed Daniel due to the fact that she snapped," said Sandoval's Attorney, Megan Casebeer.
Casebeer pointed to friends and family's grounds that Sandoval was a shining light, afloat of beingness and energy, earlier 2009.
"Outgoing. Very nice. Funny. Sweet. A genuinely bully person. Happy. Bubbly. Upbeat. Laughing, ever smiling," said Casebeer astir Sandoval.
Once Sandoval met Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green, Casebeer told the assemblage Sandoval changed.
"She was precise insecure and was doubting herself," said Casebeer, recalling grounds from friends, coworkers, and an ex-boyfriend. "She would isolate. She went from smiling, laughing, and joking to benignant of conscionable quiet.”
Sandoval and Green’s narration was highly tumultuous and toxic implicit the years. Shortly aft they were married, they were some arrested for home violence.
Hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings springiness a glimpse into conscionable however atrocious the narration was betwixt the two.
"Imagine however atrocious it was erstwhile helium was not recording," said Casebeer.
Casebeer says it was the years of maltreatment by Green that led to her sidesplitting him 10 years ago.
“When Erika snapped and killed Daniel that day, Erika was abused, disquieted astir (son), and Erika was frightened of Daniel," said Casebeer. "She did this retired of fearfulness and aggravated emotion.“
Pepperdine University Professor and Psychologist Gemil Rogers testified during the proceedings that Green was the superior aggressor in the relationship.
Sandoval past took the basal herself. She testified that her volition that time was to spell snooping astir Green's location erstwhile helium wasn't there. She said she hid successful a closet erstwhile helium came location aboriginal and past changeable him erstwhile helium went into the bathroom.
The tribunal volition not beryllium successful league connected Thursday oregon Friday, and Casebeer is expected to decorativeness her closing arguments on Monday. The prosecution volition get a accidental for rebuttal, and past the lawsuit volition beryllium turned implicit to the jury.
Those 12 jurors volition yet determine if Sandoval's enactment was execution oregon manslaughter.
