>> violence, infidelity, and excessive drinking. that's what the jury in the yeardley love trial heard. love's 24-year-old boyfriend george huguely is charged with killing her two years ago. nc's mike viqueira has more on the dramatic testimony.
>> reporter: it was the most wrenching tay yet in the murder trial of george huguely. jurors heard an account from huguely himself when prosecutors played a recorded statement he made to police just hours after yeardley love was found dead in her apartment. waving his right to lawyer huguely told police after a day of heavy drinking he went to love's apartment late at night to talk, he says, about their troubled relationship. under questioning huguely reveals kicking the hole in her door and choke her but denies that she died. he says he shook her a little, they wrestled on the floor and she may have had a bloody nose . after tossing love onto her bed, he says he left her apartment claiming that love never lost consciousness during the altercation. the defense claims he did not intention ally kill love and medication love was taking may have trinted to her death. three days of testimony have revealed a pattern of mutual infidelity, mental abused on the part of huguely and love during the course of their fiery two-year relationship. he appeared to think he was under suspicion of assault, not murder. 45 minutes in the detective reeves drops a bombshell. she's dead. you killed her. at this point he drops into his stairings. i didn't hurd her. i didn't. there's no way she died. later, i never did anything that would do that to her. tell me she's not dead as it played out, one member of the family and he could be seen wiping away tears.
>> beth caras is a former prosecutor and trutv correspondent. beth , good morning.
>> good morning.
>> what a tough week of testimony in this trial. i want to go back to what mike first was talking about in terms of the tape recorder and what was heard by huguely. he said he kicked open yard yeardley's door, wrestled with her, he may have grabbed her neck but he didn't strangle her. how damaging is that?
>> it's an admission that he's there and he had a physical altercation with her. so it's pretty darn damaging. now, the issue in this case, though, isn't is he innocent or guilty. it's what is this? is this murder or manslaughter? the defense is looking for man slaught sneer right. when he told the police, he sounded genuinely distraught and shocked. does that help him?
>> well, it can help. it can -- maybe some jurors will feel, you know what? he djts go in there with the intention to kill here. there are a couple theories of murder. one is premeditated murder . the other is felony murder . he busted into the place. he commit add burglary. and you commit a felony while you're committing this burkley. if you commit the murder rather while you're committing the felony, that could be murder, the same level, as premeditated murder . that's really a stronger theory for the prosecution.
>> speaking to that, what about the notion by the defense that he was so drunk he couldn't have planned to murder her?
>> well, i don't know. there's an e-mail two or three days earlier that said i should have killed you when i found out you were with that unc lacrosse player.
>> is that not intent to kill? it is some evidence and then he throws her computer away. it's a question of what do you call this.
>> right. well, then, to complicate things further you have a lot of witnesses who took the stand who describe a very physically violent relationship between both of them. how will that weigh in the minds of the jurors? she would hit him. he would hit her. this was a long-standing violent relationship.
>> right. so their past is relevant, but what happened in that room is what is the issue for the jury. it's not like she invited him in. he busted his way in. the evidence was introduced in the courtroom with the hole in the door. he forced his way in there. and if she fought with him in the room, she had a right to defend herself. she was a mess. she had an eye that was swollen shut. she was all bloody. her injuries are not consistent with what he told police he said. that's the problem for him.
>> what can we expect next week?
>> there'll be more forensic evidence next week.
>> all right. beth caras, thanks so much. we appreciate it.
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