DOCTOR DENIES KILLING SONS XAVIER CARO BELIEVED HIS WIFE WOULD BLAME HER MURDEROUS ACTS ON HIM.Wrapping up seven days of testimony in the murder trial of his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. wife, Dr. Xavier Caro testified Monday that he had expected her to accuse him of killing their three oldest sons. Socorro ``Cora'' Caro, 44, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity not guilty by reason of insanity n. plea in court of a person charged with a crime who admits the criminal act, but whose attorney claims he/she was so mentally disturbed at the time of the crime that he/she lacked the capacity to have intended to commit a crime. to first-degree murder in the slayings of the boys, who were shot to death as they slept in their Santa Rosa Valley mansion. Caro faces life imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. or the death penalty if she is convicted of first-degree murder. ``I assumed at the time, some way, some convoluted fashion, Cora's evil act would come back and reflect somehow on me,'' the rheumatologist rheumatologist /rheu·ma·tol·o·gist/ (roo?mah-tol´ah-jist) a specialist in rheumatology. rheu·ma·tol·o·gist n. A specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatic disorders. testified, clarifying a statement that he had made to his mother-in-law about being blamed for the murders. ``I never in my wildest dreams would believe that anyone would actually believe I actually killed my children.'' During opening statements, defense attorneys claimed that Xavier Caro - who admitting having an extramarital ex·tra·mar·i·tal adj. Being in violation of marriage vows; adulterous: an extramarital affair. extramarital Adjective affair - shot his children and wife and tried to frame her for the murders. Prosecutors, however, contend that Cora Caro killed three of the couple's four children because her husband had curtailed her spending and threatened her with divorce. Authorities said she also tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head. Xavier Caro, who found the children's bodies the night of Nov. 22, 1999, also answered questions about a family trip planned for Thanksgiving 1999 to a riverfront home in Modesto. Defense attorneys claimed that Xavier Caro deliberately picked a fight with his wife on the night of the murders so he could stay behind and meet with his lover, a biofeedback biofeedback, method for learning to increase one's ability to control biological responses, such as blood pressure, muscle tension, and heart rate. Sophisticated instruments are often used to measure physiological responses and make them apparent to the patient, who technician in his Northridge medical office. ``She (his wife) asked me, `Are you looking forward to the trip tomorrow?''' said Xavier Caro, who during his week on the witness stand avoided looking at his wife or her public defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was , Jean Farley. ``I said I had ambivalent feelings. Cora and I had not been getting along that well.'' Xavier Caro has sued his wife for divorce and filed a wrongful death suit against her on behalf of their surviving son, Gabriel, a toddler who was not harmed the night of the shootings. The doctor also said he still owns the hilltop home on Pricilla Road, where the shootings occurred, but that no one lives there. |
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