PITTSBURGH — The case is in the hands of the jury after a week of testimony in Christina Spicuzza’s murder trial.
The defense told the jury on Friday that this is one big dumpster fire of a disaster, but they believe the evidence only proves a robbery, not a murder.
Whereas the prosecution told the jury when you can’t change the facts you shift the focus ending with “Justice for Christie.”
The dash cam video played over and over was the center point of both sides of this murder trial. The Commonwealth told the jury in closing statements within 19 minutes of Calvin Crew entering Spicuzza’s life she was robbed with a gun to her head.
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The DA’s Office then saying one hour and seven minutes after he entered her life she was dead.
On the other side, the defense told the jury that the video was horrible and the defense attorney Andrew Howard stated, “It’s one of the hardest things to watch in my career.”
Howard said the video only proves a robbery even pointing to the lead detective’s testimony that there is no definitive evidence on what happened in the woods.
One of the witnesses, an investigator with the public defender’s office, walked the jury through the possibility of an accidental discharge off that street in Monroeville three years ago.
The Commonwealth ended with, “Crew had a chance to make it a robbery, but he killed her even after she begged for mercy.”
A big point made by the Commonwealth and the judge is that the state does not have to prove a motive in this case just that Crew intended to kill Spicuzza.
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