Prosecutors have stopped short of explicitly stating how they believe May Millete died, but testimony throughout the trial has touched on the subject of coniine, a poisonous compound found in the plant poison hemlock.<\/p>\n
A vial containing coniine was found inside the Millete home by investigators after Larry’s arrest. During the trial, Bowles questioned a witness with an expertise in poison regarding what the hypothetical effects of coniine would be on a person who is 5-foot-2 and weighs around 110 pounds, which matches May’s dimensions.<\/p>\n
Larry did not testify in the trial and his defense team called only three witnesses on the final day of testimony.<\/p>\n
Prior to the trial’s start, the defense was barred by Judge Enrique Camarena from mounting a defense that pointed to James “Jamey” Laird, a co- worker who was having an extramarital affair with May during 2020, as a potential suspect in May’s death. In pre-trial filings, the defense argued Laird had a potential motive because of the implications the affair’s disclosure could have on his marriage and career.<\/p>\n
But Camarena ruled Laird’s involvement in the case did not satisfy the legal standard for admitting what’s known as third-party culpability evidence, stating he’d found no direct or circumstantial evidence linking Laird to May’s killing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors have stopped short of explicitly stating how they believe May Millete died, but testimony throughout the trial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-388328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}