On Friday, a San Diego jury heard closing arguments in the trial of Jesse Milton Alvarez, 33, who is charged with murder for the Feb. 1, 2021, death of Mario…
On Friday, a San Diego jury heard closing arguments in the trial of Jesse Milton Alvarez, 33, who is charged with murder for the Feb. 1, 2021, death of Mario Fierro, a Cathedral Catholic High School teacher who was shot multiple times outside his home as he was preparing to go to work.Alvarez faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of first-degree murder and a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait.
“Juries want to hear what the defendant has to say,” Armstrong said. “If they don't look at the client, they often wonder what the guy's hiding or what the woman’s hiding. So I try to do it a lot.” “Frankly it’s insulting that defense is going to come up here because the defendant was claiming that this was self defense,” said Deputy District Attorney Ramona McCarthy.
After their break-up, McCarthy said Alvarez's fixation on his ex- girlfriend led him to begin stalking her. She sought a restraining order against Alvarez, but a judge denied her request. Alvarez testified earlier this week that those searches were not made with any serious intent of harming Fierro, but were"therapeutic" and conducted as a way to vent his emotions. He conceded, though, that he harbored"bad fantasies of wishing that was gone or dead or not here anymore."
When he arrived outside Fierro's home, he testified that he approached Fierro and introduced himself and Fierro"snapped" and attacked him.
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