LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A person going through the demise penalty brutally killed his then-wife’s former lover as a result of she had an affair and bought pregnant whereas he was in jail, infuriating the person who then compelled the girl to have an abortion, prosecutors alleged in court docket Thursday.
Anthony Newton, 45, is accused of killing Ulisys ‘Cesar’ Molina after which decapitating him round Christmas 2016, dumping his physique in a vacant lot within the northeast valley and setting his stays on hearth. If the Clark County jury listening to Newton’s case convicts him, it should then decide whether or not to condemn Newton to demise.
Prosecutors and Newton’s attorneys argued Thursday about whether or not the jury ought to hear proof of the girl’s abortion.
“Paternity has never been established, ever,” Josh Tomsheck, Newton’s legal professional instructed district court docket decide Jacqueline Bluth. “That could be a big stretch.
Tomsheck admitted the girl had a ‘medical process’ on the time, however insisted there was no proof Newton demanded she get an abortion.
Bluth dominated that abortion was too controversial a subject, and that it’d have an effect on the jury’s capacity to think about it and nonetheless deal with Newton pretty.
“I have some major questions about the prejudicial effect,” Bluth instructed the attorneys.
Prosecutors, although, argued the girl’s being pregnant and abortion had been a part of their total idea of Molina’s homicide.
“That she got pregnant as a result of this affair makes the affair more painful and more upsetting [to Newton],” Pamela Weckerly, chief deputy district legal professional, stated.
She continued: “To me, it would explain why you’d be really mad.”
Sure of Molina’s physique elements – severed from his physique on the time of his homicide – had been by no means discovered, prosecutors say, till a girl in Henderson reported discovering a hand in her mailbox in 2018 whereas Newton was awaiting trial at Clark County Detention Heart.
Thursday against the law scene analyst testified that she examined the hand because it was recovered from the mailbox, which she additionally dusted for fingerprints. Police haven’t decided who positioned the hand within the mailbox.
The jury will hear the attorneys’ closing arguments within the case on Tuesday.
