L.M.L.M., who is being tried in the Provincial Court of Guadalajara as the alleged perpetrator of the stabbing resulting in the death of a 44-year-old man in the Alamín neighborhood of Guadalajara, has denied his authorship of the crime after stating that the night before he had gone to bed «quite drunk» and woke up after 2:00 p.m., about five hours after it occurred.
At the time of the events, he was sleeping because his wife did not wake him up until after two in the afternoon because he was «still feeling the effects from the night before.»
«It never crossed my mind to do something like that,» he emphasized during his testimony in the trial with a popular jury followed in the Provincial Court of Guadalajara, where he is being tried for events that took place on June 15, 2024.
He denied the events based on not remembering how or when he arrived home the previous night because he was «very drunk» and had consumed drugs, and that he woke up when his wife notified him and they went to the village with the children.
A tense trial in which the Defense of the accused has tried at all times to discredit the value of the 45-second video that was sent to the National Police on the night of the incident by an anonymous person, in which he is allegedly seen assaulting the victim, despite several witnesses recognizing the accused in the footage.
The Prosecution has finalized its request for 25 years in prison for the accused and has added a request for compensation of 20,000 euros for each of two of the victim’s brothers and another 20,000 for a cousin, all while the accused’s lawyer has also maintained the request for acquittal for his client.
The presiding judge has reprimanded the behavior of the accused’s lawyer on several occasions, and even the Public Prosecutor has urged the Court several times to request the lawyer to moderate his intervention.
During his testimony, he denied any relationship with the victim, whom he claimed to not know at all.
«I didn’t know that man at all,» he stressed, denying his authorship of the stabbing.
VIOLENT DEATH AND «MASSIVE» HEMORRHAGE
On the other hand, in their testimony, the forensic experts who authored the reports on the autopsy of the deceased have confirmed that it was a violent death caused by a stabbing that led to a «massive hemorrhage» and brain damage.
«It was a very serious, very powerful wound,» one of them pointed out, also acknowledging that the victim showed no signs of defense on the forearms or hands. «It was a fatal wound of necessity,» he specified.
As for the police officers, it is worth noting that they have confirmed in their testimony, recognizing the alleged accused as the person who appeared in the video.
It is likely that this afternoon the jury will meet to render a verdict.