{"id":58446,"date":"2015-11-26T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=58446"},"modified":"2015-11-26T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:05:42","slug":"man-who-killed-his-wife-and-posted-photo-on-facebook-is-convicted-of-second-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/man-who-killed-his-wife-and-posted-photo-on-facebook-is-convicted-of-second-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Killed His Wife And Posted Photo On Facebook Is Convicted Of Second-Degree Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who killed his wife and then posted a photo of the corpse on Facebook has been convicted on Wednesday of second-degree murder after he failed to convince the jury he shot her eight times in self-defence.<\/p>\n

Derek Medina killed 27-year-old Jennifer Alfonso at their South Miami home before telling police in a videotaped statement that he shot his wife during an altercation in which she threatened him with a knife.<\/p>\n

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Medina, who did not testify in his own defense, admitted in the police statement taking a cellphone photo of his dead wife’s body and uploading it on Facebook, along with a posting that said he expected to go to prison but was forced to kill her following years of physical abuse.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors said Medina vowed to kill Mrs Alfonso if she tried to leave him, which she told friends she planned to do.<\/p>\n

‘He planned to execute Jen, and he executed his plan,’ prosecutor Leah Klein told jurors in a closing argument. ‘He was angry and he wanted her dead.’<\/p>\n

His attorney, Saam Zangeneh, said he plans to appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We have to respect the jury’s decision. We just don’t agree with it,’ he said. ‘We think this is a self-defense case.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n