Astorga Legal Team Fights Death Penalty

KOB - Blood dominated the testimony Thursday in the death penalty trial of convicted cop-killer Michael Astorga. Astorga's defense is that he's the wrong guy, not the shooter. It didn't work in his murder trial two years ago but it might work now to keep him out of the death chamber. Astorga testified Wednesday. On Thursday it was his turn to listen to crime scene experts for the defense. They're trying to undermine the case against him for the March 2006 shooting of Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deputy James McGrane.
A major question - why weren't there any blood-spatters on Astorga's truck if he's the one who pulled the trigger?
"I'm close enough to the wall here, that if I get a through-and-through shot, or if his honor shoots me, we're going to get spattering occurring on this wall," crime scene analyst Lawrence Renner said as he explained bloodstain analysis for the mostly female Santa Fe County jury. "That's one of the things the bloodstain patterns can do in the reconstruction process." It's hard on McGrane's family and friends to hear and see the graphic evidence, but they endured it all the way through Astorga's murder trail two years ago that ended in conviction. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Astorga Legal Team Fights Death Penalty