"She's lied to you, folks. She's lied to you all along," prosecutor Paul Sequeira told jurors in a Martinez courtroom, rejecting Polk's claim that she stabbed her husband, Felix Polk, 70, in self-defense after he assaulted her in the pool house of their Orinda home and he died of a heart attack in the struggle.
"There's no question who the winner is in this struggle," he said, showing jurors photographs of Felix Polk's body covered with numerous wounds along with photos of the defendant that showed her with only a slight bruise near her eye.
And, he noted, Polk has offered several accounts of what happened that night in October 2002, first telling police she didn't kill him, then saying she killed in self-defense and then offering various stories about the particulars to reporters.
"You pick a story," Sequeira told the jury. "None of them fit."
Polk, 48, made several objections today as Sequeira gave his closing summation, claiming he was misstating the evidence. "This trial is nothing but a complete farce," she said at one point.
Polk, who will present her closing argument this afternoon, repeatedly sought a mistrial on the grounds of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady denied those motions. . . . .
I'm sure she is guilty, but do you remember why she fired Daniel Horowitz? She has a fool for a client.