A woman from Texas admitted that he had brutally hit and stabbed the grandmother who brought her death while she hit a courtroom and claims ‘voices’ and believed that her grandmother practiced ‘witchcraft’ to kill her.
Tamera Laws, 28, was hysterical when she testified on Thursday in her own defense in a court in San Antonio for the murder of Doris Novella, 70, in her house, according to her house, according to Woai.
“Who does that?” Laws shouted through her tears in the stands. “She never did anything to want to kill her.”
Prosecutors claim that lawyer’s lawyer argues that she should not be guilty because of insanity – choked, stabbed and repeatedly hit the short story with a hammer, who killed her.
“Do you remember that you stabbed your grandmother?” Prosecutors asked her.
“This is too much,” replied the laws, stopping tears.
She was able to pull herself together and said she “used her hands” and hit her with a hammer.
“I thought the energy was on me, so I thought about getting it off, I had to beat it,” the laws told the prosecutors.
The disturbed woman then said she stabbed her “in the throat” to finally kill her grandmother.
When asked if she was in her ‘right mind’ during the murder, laws said ‘no’ and said that if she was, she would never have killed novella.
“Did you know what you were doing at the time was wrong,” the public prosecutor asked her.
“No,” she replied.
Laws shared that she struggled with meth addiction and worked as an escort prior to the murder. Around this time she claims that ‘voices’ told her that ‘people tried’ to kill her.
“I would hear voices say in my head that people were trying to kill me,” she said.
“I had something like that, I know my grandmother is trying to kill me. I was afraid that my grandmother would do witchcraft on me. ‘
Laws also told the court that her father was the one who told her that Novella was practicing ‘witchcraft’ against her.
She spoke twice with her father on the phone in the night of the murders – with the first call of more than an hour and the second lasted 42 minutes, Woai reported.
The disturbed 28-year-old claims her father told her to kill her grandmother.
“I remember him told him:” Are you f – king that I have to kill myself now, “Laws reminded her father during one of the phone calls.” And he said, “Yes,” because he said I myself myself protected. “
“(He) told me that if I didn’t kill my grandmother, I would be chopped and sent him in a box on Monday,” she told the court.
The accused murderer said that her father has a history of violence and was a convicted criminal who lived in California.
While she told the court that she ‘did not know’ that she was ‘doing something wrong’ during the murder, prosecutors argued that laws were aware of what she did and tried to clear the crime and fled according to Ksat.
However, a psychiatrist testified before the laws took the position on Thursday and said that she would suffer from psychological problems and would go into psychosis and have hallucinations.
Laws abandoned her right to a jury court and opted for a banking process, which means that the judge, Catherine Torres Stahl, will decide the outcome.
Stahl will also decide whether she accepts her delusional defense.
Laws are confronted with life in prison when they are convicted of killing novella.
