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Premeditated was the theme in the State's closing arguments to the jury.
According to the prosecution team, Ali Abulaban did not just have a plan to kill his estranged wife and her suspected lover, but he also had a plan to get his five-year-old daughter and flee town after committing the double homicide.
The toxic marriage fueled by constant domestic violence, emotional manipulation and verbal abuse eventually exploded into double homicide.
The Defense walks the jury through the day Ana Abulaban and her friend, Rayburn Barron, were both shot and killed; their version of events differs from the State's theory.
The lead prosecutor buttoned up their case against Ali Abulaban in the State's rebuttal. Taren Brast reminded the jury of the defendant's demeanor when she was drilling him under cross-examination.
Since there was no dispute that Ali Abulaban killed the two victims, jurors were instead tasked with deciding whether the killings were first or second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter.
Judge Jeffrey Fraser listened to the emotional victim-impact statements ahead of his sentencing of Ali Abulaban, the convicted double murderer.