Now defense is up. Josh Tolini is presenting closing arguments for defense.
Tolini: "There is no answer of motive"...how we can go from a hike on Garden of the Gods, loving kind to rage." Tonlini calls the killing "psychotic rage" brought up by what's happened in her past.
"This is not premeditated murder, this is a psychotic break. That is the only thing that makes sense”.
Tolini says based upon Al's relationship with Letecia and how she treated Gannon, he felt comfortable enough to leave his kids with her when he left for military training in Oklahoma.
Tolini repeats that mental illness from her past got triggered and there was temporary period of psychosis. "There's no rational basis for the murder besides psychosis.'
Tolini: "Somehow that fire set off some type of trigger, maybe some type of trigger that had been disassociated long ago but we have her melt down right after the fire.”
Tolini talks about how in the video with the candle incident, Letecia says she's freaked out and she says they'll have to sell the sofa. "That makes no sense whatsoever."
Brings up at 4:36 am on the morning of alleged murder, how Letecia calls out from work by saying her step father dies. Tolini said the step father is who traumatized her. He points to her texts that she's manic because she's up the entire night not sleeping.
Tolini: "Something is going on in her mind, something is there loosing it and something horrible goes on in the basement where there is a brutal, brutal attack.”
Tolini says how brutal the attack on Gannon is shows that there's a mental break.
Tolini: "What is going on her head, we don't know"
Tolini: "What is going on her head, we don't know"