{"id":40178,"date":"2025-11-15T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:30:08","slug":"i-just-wanted-it-to-stop-homicide-defendant-carlos-rivera-claims-self-defense-on-witness-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40178\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just wanted it to stop\u2019\u2014 Homicide defendant Carlos Rivera claims self-defense on witness stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Nov. 14, 2025, 8:12 p.m.|Published: Nov. 14, 2025, 8:06 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Rivera manslaughter trial\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RA6UFAJ4RVDNPNZZYN4KEPGY5Y.jpg\"  \/>Defendant Carlos Rivera, 38, of Stapelton, left, is charged with manslaughter in the 2024 stabbing death of Joel Badillo, 41, of Stapleton. He took the witness stand Friday on his own behalf.Steve White for the Staten Island Advance<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZTJ4SFOV7VGWFPVRSMCIZ4V7JE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Taking the witness stand Friday on his own behalf, manslaughter defendant Carlos Rivera spoke about prior drug use, gang-related violence and other perils of a criminal lifestyle on the borough\u2019s North Shore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"APMV7YP2KNEPFLCA2M77LOLBQI\">But at the crux of his testimony were the moments leading up to the 2024 stabbing death of Joel Badillo, a man he had known for two decades before a recent falling out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Nov. 14, 2025, 8:12 p.m.|Published: Nov. 14, 2025, 8:06 p.m.Defendant Carlos Rivera, 38, of Stapelton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-40178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}