INDIO The murder case against Candace Duran should be handed to a jury on Tuesday, more than five years after the 24-year-old was first arrested,celine bag.
Attorneys are slated to give closing arguments in a Riverside County courtroom in Indio,celine bags online.
The jury comprised of six men and six women and seated on April 9 will then move into deliberations.
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Duran has pleaded not guilty to the Sept. 23, 2007,Beats by Monster, stabbing death of Howard Villanueva, 40, in her Palm Springs home. He was stabbed 12 times, with a fatal wound to his neck.
Deep wounds were across Villanueva's hands, face, neck and shoulders clearly "kill shots," Deputy District Attorney Jon Brandon argued in his opening statements.
Duran began to clean up the scene around Villanueva "while he took his last breath" in a pool of blood in the dining room, Brandon said. When Palm Springs police detectives arrived at her home,acheu.com, they found blood splattered through the house and an overwhelming smell of bleach.
Duran began cleaning up "in the stress of the moment, argued defense attorney Dean Benjamini, who called the case ugly and violent.
She was taken to the police department for questioning, where she told a detective that Villanueva attacked her and she stabbed him two to three times during a struggle, according to legal briefs.
Duran, then 19, stabbed an intoxicated, 218-pound Villanueva in self-defense after he lunged at her, Benjamini told jurors,pilewu.com/coach.html.
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Duran posted $1 million bail five days after her arrest,gucci outlet store online.
While free on a bail bond,http://www.pilewu.com/truereligionjeans.html/, Duran has had 19 new cases filed in Riverside County courts, from a misdemeanor DUI charge to felony robbery, as first detailed Aug. 5 by The Desert Sun.
After she missed a series of court hearings in June and July, including one on the murder charge, judges issued seven bench warrants for her arrest.
On July 31, 10 weeks after the first bench warrant was issued against Duran, she was arrested. She remains in custody at the Riverside County jail in Indio.
Kate McGinty can be reached at or (760) 778-6451.
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