A US woman who laughed as she filmed her boyfriend suffocating to death was ‘justified in her actions’, a jury was told.
陪审团被告知,一名女子在拍摄男友窒息而死时大笑,“她的行为是合理的”。
Sarah Boone appeared at court in Orlando, Florida charged with the second degree murder of her partner Jorge Torres, who was found dead in a suitcase at their apartment in February 2020.
莎拉·布恩 (Sarah Boone) 在佛罗里达州奥兰多的法庭上出庭,被指控对她的伴侣豪尔赫·托雷斯 (Jorge Torres) 犯有二级谋杀罪,豪尔赫·托雷斯于 2020 年 2 月被发现死在他们公寓的手提箱中。
The 46-year-old claims the two of them were playing a drunken game of ‘hide and seek’ when Mr Torres, 42, willingly got into the suitcase.
这位 46 岁的男子声称,当 42 岁的托雷斯先生心甘情愿地进入手提箱时,他们两人正在玩一场醉酒的“捉迷藏”游戏。
She told police she ended up falling asleep while he was in there and woke in the morning to find him dead.
她告诉警方,当他在里面时,她最终睡着了,早上醒来发现他已经死了。
In his opening statement yesterday, broadcast live on talktv.com, Boone’s defence lawyer, James Owens, said Boone did not mean to kill her partner, but wanted a ‘captive audience’ after he repeatedly abused her throughout their three-year relationship.
布恩的辩护律师詹姆斯·欧文斯 (James Owens) 在昨天现场直播的开场白中表示,布恩并不是故意杀死她的伴侣,而是在他们三年的恋爱关系中多次虐待她后,他想要一个“俘虏的观众”。
He said she was ‘justified in the actions she took’.
Assistant state attorney William Jay, who is prosecuting, said in his opening statement that Boone acted with ‘malicious intent to punish him and then she went up to sleep and left him to take his final breaths on this Earth alone’.
Part of the prosecution’s case is a video filmed by Boone in which Mr Torres can be heard pleading from the suitcase, ‘Sarah, I can’t breath’ a number of times.
检方案件的一部分是布恩拍摄的一段视频,在视频中可以听到托雷斯先生从手提箱中多次恳求,“莎拉,我无法呼吸”。
Boone, a mum of one, can be he heard giggling and says, ‘For everything you’ve done to me, for everything you’ve done to me. F*** you. F*** you. Stupid.’
布恩是一个孩子的妈妈,可以听到他咯咯笑着说,'为了你对我所做的一切,为了你对我所做的一切。你。你。愚蠢。
She also compares him struggling to breath with her allegedly being choked by him.
她还将他挣扎着呼吸与据称她被他窒息进行了比较。
Mr Owen, who is Boone’s ninth defence lawyer after several other resigned due to’irreconcilable differences’, told the jury that both his client and Mr Torres were alcoholics and as ‘down and out as you can be’.
欧文先生是布恩的第九位辩护律师,此前其他几人因“不可调和的分歧”而辞职,他告诉陪审团,他的客户和托雷斯先生都是酗酒者,并且“尽你所能地落魄”。
Speaking about the abuse, he said: ‘Jorge Torres physically abused Sarah Boone and she suffered from the effects, the psychological effects that one suffers from repeat violence from an intimate partner.
谈到虐待事件,他说:“豪尔赫·托雷斯对莎拉·布恩进行了身体虐待,她受到了这种影响,即一个人遭受亲密伴侣反复暴力的心理影响。
He described Mr Torres as being jealous of Boone, adding: ‘When his level of intoxication gets to a certain level is when he gets sad, moody and a lot of times eventually it involved forcible sex with Sarah Boone or actual physical violence.’
他形容托雷斯先生嫉妒布恩,并补充说:“当他的醉酒程度达到一定程度时,他就会变得悲伤、喜怒无常,很多时候最终涉及与莎拉·布恩的强行性行为或实际的身体暴力。
Explaining how Mr Torres became a ‘captive audience’ in the suitcase, Mr Owens said: ‘Physically, they’re the same size, but he’s much stronger. If they got into a fistfight, he would win 100 times out of 100.
在解释托雷斯先生如何成为行李箱里的“俘虏观众”时,欧文斯先生说:“从身体上看,他们的体型相同,但他要强壮得多。如果他们打架,他会赢 100 次中的 100 次。
‘But she’s got him down, claims he can’t get up. He has to sit and listen. It’s a unique form of physical restraint. So she lets him have it, says things she shouldn’t say.’
Both Boone and Mr Torres were previously arrested for battery against each other.
The court later heard from Boone’s ex husband Brian Boone, who said she called him drunkenly in the middle of the night.
He said he hadn’t paid much attention to what she was saying as he wanted to get back to sleep and because she’d called him in this drunken state on a number of occasions previously.
But when he phoned the following day to check if she’d be looking after their now 13-year-old son, she told him she’d found Mr Torres dead and asked him to come over.
Mr Boone, who lived close by, advised her to phone emergency services, then got in his car and drove over to the apartment in Winter Park.
He said when he arrived she still hadn’t phoned 911, so he asked her again at which point she did.
She also told him that she and Mr Torres had been playing ‘hide and seek’ and she fell asleep while he was in the suitcase, the court heard.
Mr Boones said he only went in as far as the hallway, at which point he noticed Mr Torres’s feet sticking out in the living room.
He added that he decided to go and wait for the emergency services in the car.
Jurors were also shown police bodycam footage filmed outside the apartment following the 911 call.
The video shows Boone telling deputy Kayla Rodriguez what allegedly happened.
She says they’d drunk a bottle of wine and were playing ‘hide and seek’, when he got in the suitcase.
Appearing calm at first, Boone starts getting agitated, repeating that she fell asleep.
Before the trial begun Boone – who is currently being held in jail – was offered a plea deal, which would have seen her receive a 15-year prison sentence if she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
She rejected the deal and will face a minimum sentence is 22-and-a-half years if convicted of second degree murder.
The trial continues.
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