Medina had told police in a 28-minute videotaped statement he shot Jennifer after years of abuse and during an argument in which he claimed she assaulted him with a knife.
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Medina showed no emotion.
But prosecutor J Scott Dunn told the jury his Facebook post undermined his self-defence argument: “It’s hard to tell the entire world you’re going to prison and walk that back”. “He was angry and he wanted her dead”. They began deliberations Tuesday night following more than two weeks of testimony. She declined comment to reporters. Medina earned the nickname “Facebook killer”, and since then, news producers and consumers have feasted on twists and turns of his antics and judicial fate.
“It has been a hard case”, said attorney Saam Zangeneh.
“We have to respect the jury’s decision”. “We think this is a self-defense case”.
The second-degree guilty verdict carries a sentence of 25 years-to-life in prison.
Medina will be sentenced on January 11, 2016. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement her office would seek the maximum of life behind bars. “The jury carefully viewed all the evidence and came to the correct conclusion that Derek Medina coldly murdered his wife to heal his own injured ego”. Prosecutors say Medina killed Alfonso because she threatened to leave him.
Medina married Alfonso in 2010. The girl did not witness the shooting. A video surveillance camera captured some of the argument. Prosecutors say Medina killed Alfonso because she threatened to leave him and that she had no knife.
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. A short time after the posting, Medina turned himself in to police and raised his self-defense claim.
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The defense argued Alfonso, 27, abused drugs, beat her husband and was a Satan worshiper.
