{"id":5087,"date":"2025-10-15T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5087\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:10:08","slug":"homestead-woman-on-trial-for-murder-takes-stand-in-own-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5087\/","title":{"rendered":"Homestead woman on trial for murder takes stand in own defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM<\/p>\n<p>Daisy Link gained notoriety after becoming pregnant while behind barsDaisy Link, on trial for partner&#8217;s murder, takes stand in own defense <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The murder trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/10\/miami-dade-jurors-see-footage-hear-alleged-confession-in-daisy-link-murder-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/10\/miami-dade-jurors-see-footage-hear-alleged-confession-in-daisy-link-murder-trial\/\">for a woman accused of fatally shooting her romantic partner<\/a> continued on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daily Link, 30, is on trial for the deal of her on-and-off partner Pedro Jimenez in June of 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Link gained notoriety last year when, while incarcerated, she became pregnant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Link took the stand in her own defense. Her attorneys have argued that her relationship with Jimenez, the father of two of her children, was volatile. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They allege that she fired a gun during an argument out of fear for her life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prosecutors have argued that Link fired at Jimenez as he was running away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She is facing a charge of second-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Liane Morejon\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d280f347-3e15-408e-99.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Liane Morejon<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Liane Morejon is an Emmy-winning reporter who joined the Local 10 News family in January 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM Daisy Link gained notoriety after becoming pregnant while behind barsDaisy Link, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-5087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}