A wife who stabbed her husband until the death of her birthday morning in 2021 while laying in bed at her house in Santa Ana was sentenced Wednesday for murder.
A jury of the Superior County Court of Orange Deliberate for a little more than five hours finding Michelle Gutiérrez, then 32, guilty of second degree murder for the murder of her husband Kings Street Home in tea or tea tea, tea tea, tea tea, tea tea, tea tea in the tea home, tea tea in the tea home in the tea home in the tea home in the tea home in the tea home in the tea home In tea in the tea home. Fulfill of mental problems related to the medications that Gutierrez had been taking to help deal with seizures.
While her husband slept, prosecutors alleged, Gutiérrez grabbed two knitters from her kitchen, locked her room and used Botos to stab her husband repeatedly, even on her neck and back while falling from the bed.
The attached district prosecutor Senior, Susan Price, said that a pulsometer was found in the bloody sheets, which the prosecutor claimed that Gutierrez used to make sure that her husband was dead. The couple had a discussion last night, said Price, and had asked a friend to come in the morning to take their children to a relative’s house.
“She set it and made sure she was dead,” Price told the jury members of the closing arguments on Monday in a Santa Ana court.
The two children of the couple listened to their father screaming and apparently tried to make their way to their parents’ room kicking, hitting and using Nerf guns on the closed door. The children listened to their mother to say “you did this yourself”, according to the duration of the testimony of the trial. The officers arrived at the house to find an “incredible graphic scene,” said the prosecutor, with “blood everywhere.”
According to the reports, Gutiérrez tried to take her life after killing her husband, and while talking with the nurses expressed regret for killing her husband.
Citing entries in a newspaper discovered by investigators, the Prosecutor’s Office argued that Gutiérrez felt “desperate” before the murder. Price said Gutierrez had previously cheated and Song to her husband and worried that she was doing the same. And he worries that his marriage was falling apart and was in danger of losing his children, the prosecutor added.
The attached public defender Jazmine Torres did not play that Gutiérrez killed her husband. But the defense lawyer argued that it was not the premeditated murder described by the Prosecutor’s Office.
“There is no reason, there is no planning, there is nothing calculated on this case,” Torres told the jurors who last their closing arguments.
Just before Pandemia and Covid-19 enclosures were in early 2020, Gutiérrez suffered the first of several epileptic suizations. And in the months prior to the death of her husband, she fought with the side effects of the drug that was a turn to deal with seizures, the defense argued.
The medicine left Gutiérrez’s mental health down, Torres told the jury. Her paranoid and delusional thinking included that people were looking at her, that someone had pirate her electronic accounts and that her husband had tasks of a life insurance policy and that she had killed to kill her, added the defense lawyer.
“I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t understand what was going wrong,” said the defense lawyer. “It was his new reality.”
The prosecutor replied that having a psychotic reaction to the type of drug that Gutierrez was extraordinarily strange.
“You don’t get a pass because you have anxiety,” said Price. “You don’t get a pass because life is difficult.”
Gutiérrez and Zuna grew together in the same neighborhood of Santa Ana where the murder took place. Both had parents who lived in houses down the street.
Gutierrez faces up to 16 years of life in prison. It is scheduled to return to the Court by sentence on May 30.
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