Video: Huguely-Love murder trial wrapping up

>> the defense in the george huguely trial resumes today. he's the former university of virginia la kroos player accused of killing his girlfriend yeardley love. mike viqueira is live in charlottesville with the latest. good morning to you.

>> reporter: good morning. one thing has become clear over the course of this trial. theirs was a stormy relationship, off and on over the course of two years and it ended tragically. by the oenld f the day, huguely on trial for killing his former girl friend yeardley love could be in the jury's hand. as the murder trial of george huguely nears its end, alina me sar rowe, his aunt and godmother testified before love was dead in her apartment she saw them being affection at. she narrate add story where huguely and friends including love had gathered. there's george and yardley holding hands. it was not visible to the speck ta taters. it came after he send her an e-mail that read in part, i should have killed you. the defense says the video is important because it shows huguely and love acting in a friendly way. huguely is accused of breaking into her apartment after the night the tapg was record and killing her. there was testimony from two women who said five days before love's dead they witness add, quote, frustrated love attack huguely. the pair at the time, high school seniors visiting campus had lost their chaperone. huguely invited them to wait in his apartment while they tried to find her. then love walked in. she asked who we were and she asked if george had been texting us, said caroline, one of the pair. she hit george with her purse and he got up off the sofa and backed away. she told the jury, adding, he asked her to leave. and, lester, court is in soengs a rare saturday. part of the reason it's been slow going, one of the defense attorneys has been sick but yesterday the judge made it clear he wants to move forward if the case and he hopes to give it to sf jury later today .

>> beth karas is a correspondent on trutv. good to see you.

>> good morning.

>> the question was what was her intent. the medical examiner said she died from blunt force trauma . the defense comes along and says it could have also been asphyxiation. why is this important here?

>> this is the mechanism of the cause of death , which is the issue. the blunt force trauma according to the state's expert is because they saw lesions, bruises on her brain. that's what bruised her brain. the attack was so violent. that supported murder than she died face down in the bed.

>> they're suggesting drinking.

>> and drugs in her system. she was face down and she asphyxiated. that may support a manslaughter i don't know if a person's behavior is evidence or not but when george huguely was told she was dead, he acted as if he couldn't believe it. do his actions come into play? again, this question of intent?

>> yes. certainly for the theory of murder that's charged which is premeditated. if he went in there planned and intending to kill her, would he have acted that way on the video? in the course of a burglary, which he did do, he busted through the door, there's a hole through the door knob . he didn't have permission to enter. he killed in the course of a burglary. doesn't matter if he was surpris surprised.

>> several of his friends say he had been drinking heavenly and he had a drinking law . under virginia law does that present a defense of some kind? it is to a little bit. for an intentional crime, it could be a defense that you were so messed up, so blitzed that you really didn't form the intent and so it would be a lesser crime, manslaughter. so it could form manslaughter if the jury wants to go that way.

>> we noted that story there was a previous altercation. in that e-mail he writings, i should have killed you. we don't know quite the context of how that was said. people say that all the time. in this case, that can't be helpful.

>> no. that's part of the state's proof of premedication. that was april 30th . she died four days later. he should have killed her when he learned that she had been with another lacrosse player from another school.

>> a's a difficult bit. begts crass, good to have you on. thanks so much.

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