Michael Burton, 48, claims he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Otilia Burton, his wife of 13 years, on July 16, 2007.
The expert's testimony likely dealt another setback to the
defense strategy for Michael Burton, a former Pasadena firefighter who
prosecutors accuse of murdering his wife before trying to take his own
life. During the samurai sword
attack that killed Otilia Burton, she suffered some of her wounds while
she was sitting or lying down on the floor of her home, a prosecution
expert testified Monday in West Valley Superior Court.
Randolph Beasley, a crime scene expert for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, testified for nearly four hours Monday about the blood spatters he analyzed in the Burtons' Rancho Cucamonga home following the incident. The expert's testimony - consisting of detailed analysis of blood and other evidence found in the Burtons' home - took up the entire day of Monday's proceedings, the sixth day of testimony in Burton's murder trial.
Excerpted from DailyBulletin.com.
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