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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The last moments of a fentanyl overdose are present coming to airy arsenic Cassidy Gonzalez stands proceedings for murder.
"I had recovered unusual drugs and a weird note, and my sister was dead," Sage Dreith said.
She took jurors backmost to January 17, 2022, erstwhile investigators recovered her sister, Jade, connected the level 2 days aft prosecutors said Gonzalez sold her fentanyl.
Sage described the scene.
"And did you besides find pills connected the dresser?" defence lawyer Greg Gross asked.
"Yes," Sage said.
"And did you besides find pills down the dresser?" Gross asked.
"Yes," Sage responded.
"And you besides recovered pills successful the furniture successful the kitchen?" asked Gross.
"Yes," answered Sage.
Jade's flat appeared frozen erstwhile Sage entered.
There was nutrient connected the dresser, and the TV was paused connected "Euphoria," a play featuring a troubled teenage cause addict.
The defence tried to link the dots, but the authoritative objected.
The justice agreed and told the defence to determination on.
The courtroom became tense.
"I don't cognize what you're asking me," Sage told the defence attorney.
"I consciousness similar you're trying to instrumentality maine connected purpose, and I don't cognize what you're asking me."
Sage is simply a cardinal witnesser arsenic prosecutors inquire a assemblage to convict Gonzalez of murder.
Their lawsuit is pushing ineligible limits arsenic they inquire the assemblage to determine if selling fentanyl, a cause known to beryllium deadly, is the aforesaid arsenic acting with implied malice, defined arsenic the conscious disregard for quality life.
"Jade was killed by fentanyl," authoritative Kendall Reynolds said connected the archetypal time of the proceedings past week.
"Jade was murdered by Ms. Gonzalez."
Gonzalez has pleaded not blameworthy to murder.
Her eyes were reddish connected Monday aft breaking down erstwhile constabulary showed assemblage camera footage from the scene.
Jurors saw Jade's assemblage connected the level of her apartment.
"I knew she was, successful fact, deceased, without moving the body," Fresno Police Department Corporal Gerald Sepeda said.
"I did not spot immoderate evident signs of trauma astatine that point."
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