Facebook Killer Derek Medina Found Guilty

Alfonso’s mother, Carolyn Knox, wept as the verdict was announced.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle issued a statement of sympathy for the victim’s family. “Far, far too often this kind of domestic violence leads to injury and death”.

It was what the defense wasn’t able to present during the trial that Medina’s attorney said might have made a difference in the outcome.

This is also the line of defense that his attorney, Saam Zangeneh, insisted on during the court trial.

“We have to respect the jury’s decision”. Sentencing has been scheduled for January 11. Prosecutors plan to seek life.

Jurors got the case of 33-year-old Derek Medina on Tuesday but did not reach a verdict.

Jurors were unconvinced by Medina’s self-defense story. That would have required a finding of premeditation on his part. He emptied all eight bullets from his.380-caliber pistol on his wife because he was, not angry, but, oh, so afraid of a woman with less strength than he.

Derek Medina admitted taking the picture on his phone and uploading it on to the social media site. “A young lady lost her life, but her actions caused it to happen”.

Medina was additionally found guilty of capturing or throwing a lethal missile and of youngster neglect with out bodily hurt, having left his spouse’s minor daughter alone within the house after the capturing. Moreno said he found the girl upstairs in a bedroom watching television with the volume up loud. She had a big knife, his lawyers claimed, although the home’s surveillance footage didn’t show her wielding one.

Medina then drove to see his family and later turned himself to police, according to his arrest affidavit. “‘I’m going to prison, ‘” said prosecutor J. Scott Dunn.

Prosecutors successfully argued Alonso was in fear of her life when she was killed. “What they were doing in that kitchen was having an argument”. The judge did not allow the evidence to be presented. The couple had a rocky relationship, going through a divorce before getting back together a year before the incident.

A medical examiner testified that the eight shots were fired downwards and that the position of the body indicated she had been cowering on her knees.

See the many faces of Derek Medina, who killed his wife and posted a picture of her corpse on Facebook.