The
jury saw the rest of a police video of 29 year old Crystal Dawn
MacKenzie being questioned in the stabbing death of her common law
partner, 29 year old Patrick Thomas in March of 2010. MacKenzie is being
retried for 2nd degree murder.
The
video shows MacKenzie doubled over, rocking back and forth while
sobbing. MacKenzie tells lead investigator Sergeant Dan Oram she didn't
mean to kill Thomas but didn't want him in the apartment on Alma Street
that night because she didn't want her kids to see them fighting.
She
tells Oram of stabbing Thomas in the shoulder after thinking he was
coming after her. Sergeant Oram told the court he took that to mean
MacKenzie was the aggressor after becoming so enraged.
Defense
lawyer David Kelly suggested she wasn't giving an academy award
performance during the interrogation but Oram told the court, in his
view, she was more upset at her own predicament than what had happened
to Thomas.
Kelly
got into evidence Thomas' past criminal record for assaults including
an order, at one point, to not have contact with MacKenzie.