JURY HEARS TAPED INTERVIEW OF SUSPECT IN SLAYING OF SIMI OFFICER.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Jurors heard Daniel Tuffree make a case for his defense Wednesday as prosecutors replayed an interview taped by investigators within hours after Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. police Officer Michael Clark Michael (or Mike) Clark can refer to the following people:
During the interview, Tuffree said the police were harassing him, yet he didn't want a confrontation on the afternoon of Aug. 4 when Clark knocked on his door in response to a call to check on Tuffree's welfare. Tuffree told investigators that Clark fired first after Tuffree raised his handgun at the kitchen window. Tuffree said he returned the gunfire, which fatally wounded Clark. ``I backed up and pointed it in his direction and he started firing,'' Tuffree said on the tape. ``I never intended to kill anybody.'' Tuffree, also wounded during the gunfight, was interviewed inside an ambulance that took him from Los Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The Ventura Superior Court jury heard Tuffree answer questions from both a psychologist representing the Ventura County district attorney and a Simi Valley police detective. Tuffree was emphatic in his account of events and at one point said, ``I'm talking I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, noted for launching vocalist Kate Ceberano. History After the break-up of the Melbourne-based experimental funk band Essendon Airport in 1983, members Robert Goodge (guitar), Ian Cox (saxophone) and Barbara Hogarth 100 percent straight.'' Tuffree said he ``was feeling mellow and relaxed'' after taking a Valium tablet and drinking some wine during the morning and early afternoon of the shooting. When Clark knocked at the front door, Tuffree said he attempted to hide. Tuffree said he got his gun after Clark entered his side-yard patio. The two met at the kitchen window. Tuffree said he held the handgun in his left hand on the kitchen counter and out of Clark's view. ``I didn't want any kind of incident,'' he said. ``I didn't lift it up. I left it right on the counter with my hand on it. And I did not fire first.'' The confrontation turned deadly when Clark told Tuffree to raise both hands. Tuffree said he showed the gun ``to just intimidate him to leave.'' ``And he immediately backed up and drew his gun and fired in through the window,'' Tuffree said. Tuffree stands indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. on a charge of murdering Clark and attempting to murder one of two other officers who backed up Clark. The indictment includes a special circumstance that Tuffree intentionally killed Clark, making Tuffree eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors introduced the tape-recorded interview to bolster their contention that Tuffree kept a hand on his handgun while standing near the kitchen sink talking with Clark. Prosecutors have said Clark felt threatened and there is no issue of who fired first. Tuffree's public defenders 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 have said his account is central to their contention that he should not be convicted of intentionally killing Clark. CONEJO ENDING They contend Clark's killing was the tragic end to events centered on Tuffree's unsuccessful efforts to refill refill noun A second allotment of a prescription agent obtained from a pharmacy, which is allowed by the original prescription verb Pharmacology To obtain more of a particular drug, after the initially prescribed amount of the agent has been used or a Valium prescription, and that Tuffree was under stress and wanted to be left alone. SAC ENDING Prosecutors allege Tuffree shot Clark because he held a grudge grudge tr.v. grudged, grudg·ing, grudg·es 1. To be reluctant to give or admit: even grudged the tuition money. 2. against the police for once confiscating the same handgun Tuffree used to shoot the officer. |
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