Santa Ana man faces 4 years in prison for fatal DUI crash on 91 Freeway in Corona

• February 26, 2025

RIVERSIDE — A 25-year-old motorist who killed a man in a fiery wreck while the defendant was driving under the influence on the Riverside (91) Freeway in Corona is slated to be sentenced next week to four years in state prison.

Christopher Magallon of Santa Ana pleaded guilty on Monday to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. No charges were dismissed under the deal.

Superior Court Judge Gary Polk scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 7 at the Riverside Hall of Justice. The prosecution and defense stipulated a prospective sentence of four years, which the judge is expected to certify.

Magallon is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.

He killed the victim, identified in court documents only as “J.C.,” on April 29, 2024, along the westbound 91, near the Interstate 15 interchange.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the defendant was at the wheel of a Lincoln Mark LT traveling at an unconfirmed speed about 12:30 in the morning, approaching the interchange, when he “veered to the right and struck the left rear” of a Toyota 4Runner.

“After the impact, the Toyota overturned and caught fire, with the driver trapped inside,” Officer Javier Navarro said.

Corona Fire Department personnel reached the location within a few minutes and extinguished the fully engulfed SUV in the fast lane. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the sole occupant of the vehicle.

Magallon’s Lincoln was found broken down in the center divider. He was still in the pickup when officers detained him.

Navarro said evidence collected at the scene confirmed the defendant was drunk.

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Max Christie’s return to face Lakers as a Maverick provides chance ‘to move on’

• February 26, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Dallas Mavericks wing Max Christie was on the Lakers’ team bus after scoring 15 points in their Feb. 1 victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden when he received a phone call that changed his life.

Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, while Christie was heading back to the team’s hotel in New York City, immediately added Lakers coach JJ Redick to the call – which was a sign to Christie to expect something.

What Pelinka told Christie was life-changing information that became public not long after the call: the third-year wing was being included in the blockbuster trade that brought star guard Luka Doncic to the Lakers and sent 10-time All-Star big man Anthony to Dallas.

“Just a lot of emotions,” Christie said of the immediate aftermath of the call. “Phone call happens, you get told the news and you just have to right away, first off you compartmentalize and you feel everything, but you gotta move on to a new team, a new place.

“And phone calls are made to try to get you to transition smoothly and whatnot, but calling my family and friends and letting them know about what happened. A lot of moving parts and there’s a lot to explain, but at the end of the day, it is a business and this is what we sign up for.”

Christie, 22, was back in Los Angeles as the Mavericks visited the Lakers on Tuesday at Crypto.com Arena – the first time the teams have squared off since the trade the shocked the entire NBA.

“A little bit,” Christie responded when asked after the Mavericks’ Tuesday morning shootaround if it was “weird” being back in Los Angeles but as one of the Lakers’ opponents.

“Being here and not being like in my own apartment or coming here this early to the arena to do a shootaround is a little unique for me. But I’ve had a lot of baskets in here and I feel very comfortable here, so the weirdness has subsided a little bit.”

Christie added: “I didn’t expect to be as, not emotional, but just to feel the feeling that I felt. Just coming back here and a lot of memories in this place, a lot of memories in this city. It’s cool to be back though.”

Christie, who the Lakers drafted in the second round in 2022, spent the first 2½ seasons of his career with the team. He expected Tuesday’s game would help provide closure three weeks after the trade,

“This is a good step for me in the right direction to move on,” he said. “To be here for a different team, trying to win against the Lakers is something I can’t say until now. It’s interesting, I’m looking forward to [Tuesday]. And at the end of the day, I’m just looking forward to having fun and trying to win a game. It’s nothing more than that.”

“I think this is a good step for me in the right direction to move on.”Mavericks wing Max Christie’s response when asked if his first game against the Lakers tonight in Los Angeles will help provide closure:

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Christie has stepped his game up since joining the Mavericks, averaging 15.3 points (50% shooting – 43.6% from 3-point range), 4.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.1 steals in his first eight games.

“Max, since the day I took the job, was someone that I was very high on,” Redick said. “Really, him and [Jalen Hood-Schifino] were the first two guys that we got our hands on because we weren’t with the Summer League team all that much. Just feel very invested for the rest of my life in his career.

“He’s someone who, throughout our time together, was given more opportunity and became someone who starred in his role. He has a lot of freedom in Dallas that, frankly, he didn’t have here. At some point, he would have had it here, but I’m really happy to see him succeeding.”

Christie was playing the best basketball of his brief career – showcasing high-level 3-and-D play – up to that point with the Lakers before being traded. Christie averaged 10.9 points (45.5% shooting – 39.5% from 3-point range) and 3.2 rebounds in his 24 games as a starter before being traded. The Lakers also regularly tasked him with guarding opponents’ top ball-handler.

“Every single person on that coaching staff, from [Head Video Coordinator Michael Wexler] to JJ as the head coach, they were super cool to me,” Christie said. “And they really took good care of me, and I appreciate them a ton, and still to this day.

“There’s no bad blood between anybody in the Lakers. I have nothing but love for everybody, and JJ’s comments obviously mean a lot to me. He’s a coach that really believed in me. He gave me an opportunity, and he allowed me to play through a little bit of adversity that I had early in the year. And he trusted me again to put me out on the floor, and that goes a long way for me and my belief in myself, and that’s not just JJ, but everybody on the coaching staff as well. They were awesome to me, and I really appreciate everything they [did] for me and helping me take steps to develop my game even further.”

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Trump says he will offer ‘gold cards’ for $5 million path to citizenship, replacing investor visas

• February 26, 2025

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors.

“They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the “Trump Gold Card” would replace EB-5 visas in two weeks. EB-5s were created by Congress in 1990 to generate foreign investment and are available to people who spend about $1 million on a company that employs at least 10 people.

Lutnick said the gold card — actually a green card, or permanent legal residency — would raise the price of admission for investors and do away with fraud and “nonsense” that he said characterize the EB-5 program. Like other green cards, it would include a path to citizenship.

About 8,000 people obtained investor visas in the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, 2022, according to the Homeland Security Department’s most recent Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. The Congressional Research Service reported in 2021 that EB-5 visas pose risks of fraud, including verification that funds were obtained legally.

Investors’ visas are common around the world. Henley & Partners, an advisory firm, says more than 100 countries around the world offer “golden visas” to wealthy individuals, including the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Malta, Australia, Canada and Italy.

Trump made no mention of the requirements for job creation. And, while the number of EB-5 visas is capped, Trump mused that the federal government could sell 10 million “gold cards” to reduce the deficit. He said it “could be great, maybe it will be fantastic.”

“It’s somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication, it’s a road to citizenship for people, and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent, where people of wealth pay for those people of talent to get in, meaning companies will pay for people to get in and to have long, long term status in the country,” he said.

Congress determines qualifications for citizenship, but Trump said “gold cards” would not require congressional approval.

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Three tropical cyclones are swirling in the South Pacific

• February 26, 2025

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY

Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual.

Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all churning as the region is in the peak of a season that starts in November and ends in April.

The storms are called cyclones when they happen in the Southwest Pacific and hurricanes when they form in the North Atlantic, but are essentially the same phenomenon.

How unusual is this?

“It’s not incredibly unusual to have three hurricanes simultaneously in the month of September in the North Atlantic,” said Brian Tang, an atmospheric science professor at University at Albany. “Certainly it is a very busy period for the South Pacific and three tropical cyclones is a lot to happen at once, but not unprecedented.”

The last time three such storms occurred in the South Pacific was January 2021 when Lucas, Ana and Bina were churning simultaneously, though it’s not clear if Bina officially reached Category 1 status, Tang said.

Where are these storms and have they caused damage?

Rae formed Friday north of Fiji and brought whipping winds and heavy rain that damaged fruit trees, according to local reports.

Alfred developed in the Coral Sea on Monday and is expected to bring flooding rains to the northeast Australia state of Queensland this weekend.

Seru became a cyclone on Tuesday and is expected to track near the island nation of Vanuatu but remain offshore.

What caused three cyclones at the same time?

Scientists say that’s hard to say, but any explanation starts with the high activity that’s usual this time of year.

Gabriel Vecchi, a climate scientist at Princeton University, noted evidence of what’s called a Madden–Julian Oscillation — a fluctuation in the atmosphere that results in a blob of rising air and rainfall that circles the globe and lasts for 30 days or longer. He said it seems to be tracking over the southwest Pacific in a way that could enhance cyclone activity.

“The atmosphere is chaotic. There’s a lot of natural fluctuation in it … we need to be open to the possibility that factors that are beyond our ability to predict might have led to these three cyclones at the same time,” said Vecchi.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Tuesday, Feb. 25

• February 26, 2025

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TUESDAY’S SCORES

GIRLS WATER POLO

CIF SOCAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Round I

DIVISION I

Orange Lutheran 13, The Bishop’s 7

Goals: (OLu) Cohen 4, Robinson 3

Saves: (OLu) Pranajaya 9

DIVISION III

Cathedral Catholic 16, Anaheim 3

BASEBALL

LOARA TOURNAMENT

Villa Park 6, Banning 0

Aliso Niguel 12, Narbonne 6

Foothill 4, San Juan Hills 2

El Dorado 4, La Habra 3

Downey 6, Pacifica 4

Canyon 5, Redondo Union 1

Los Alamitos 1, Vista Murrieta 1 (8 innings)

Loara 14, St. Pius X-St. Matthias 5

SPRING INVITATIONAL

Orange Lutheran 4, Arrowhead Christian 2

NONLEAGUE

Kennedy/La Palma 7, Estancia 1

Est: McCrea (L, 5IP 7H 4R 2ER 2K). Sweeney 1-2, 3B, R.

Savanna 10, Santiago 1

Sav: J. Eich (W, 5IP 0R 8K) Hernandez 3-3, 2 2B, HBP. N. Eich 2-3, 2 2B.

Fullerton 4, Tesoro 1

Full: Malachi 1-1, 2RBI R. Fany 2-4, 2B, RBI, R. Wise (W, 4IP 0R)

Other nonleague scores

Santa Margarita 6, Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks 5

Harvard-Westlake 5, JSerra 2

Tustin 5, St. Margaret’s 3

Buena Park 22, Western 0

Marina 1, Dana Hills 0

Woodbridge 6, Sunny Hills 1

Laguna Hills 3, Century 2

Rancho Alamitos 5, Santa Ana Valley 0

St. Paul 11, Valencia 0

Rancho Christian 5, Pacifica Christian 3

Westminster 7, Saddleback 6

Corona del Mar 6, Segerstrom 0

SOFTBALL

NONLEAGUE

Artesia 15, Ocean View 4

Canyon 17, Yorba Linda 0

Capistrano Valley 15, Edison 5

Cypress 6, California 2

La Habra 10, Segerstrom 0

Oxford Academy 20, Cabrillo/Long Beach 9

Rosary 10, Esperanza 0

Tesoro 2, Beckman 1

Aliso Niguel 12, El Toro 2

Sonora 6, La Serna 1

Western 10, Rancho Alamitos 0

Calvary Chapel/Downey 9, Savanna 5

Fountain Valley 13, Irvine 6

BOYS LACROSSE

NONLEAGUE

Corona del Mar 13, Palos Verdes 5

Goals: (CdM) Alves 5, Ip 2, Majit 2

Saves: (CdM) DiFrancesco 11

GIRLS LACROSSE

NONLEAGUE

Marlborough 16, Huntington Beach 1

El Dorado 22, Rosary 5

Norco 8, Segerstrom 5

GIRLS BEACH VOLLEYBALL

NONLEAGUE

Huntington Beach 4, Aliso Niguel 1

Fountain Valley 4, Gahr 1

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This California city was once the egg capital of the world. Farmers are now taking desperate measures to try to keep the legacy alive

• February 26, 2025

Once considered the “Egg Basket of the World,” Petaluma’s last remaining commercial egg farmers face one of their biggest challenges yet — amid outbreaks of avian flu — to preserve their industry and their city’s culture, where egg queens are anointed at egg parades and chicken iconography adorns the streets.

Petaluma was the center of technological advancements in egg production that revolutionized the industry, but Jordan Marht, a fourth-generation egg farmer at the independent hatchery Petaluma Egg Farm, has had to take drastic measures to protect his flock and his family’s business.

While the U.S. Department of Agriculture has worked to limit the spread of the avian flu since its most recent outbreak in 2022, it’s come at a cost — more than 23 million birds in California have been euthanized since 2022. These costs have spread to consumers as eggs – traditionally a cheap form of protein – have surged in price. But the “hen-demic” has hit Petaluma egg farmers especially hard because of the industry’s importance to the town.

When the avian flu swept through the city in December of 2023. Marht’s Petaluma Egg Farm had to euthanize tens of thousands of birds. At the same time, Sunrise Farms, the only other egg producer of significant volume left in Petaluma, was forced to put down 550,000 birds — and for the first time in over a century of its existence, Sunrise did not have a single chicken on its premises.

“It’s an overwhelming time for a producer and for the customer, and it definitely makes navigating the industry difficult right now,” Marht said. “Especially when you don’t know if tomorrow you’re going to lose your chickens.”

Perched along a small river that runs into San Pablo Bay, Petaluma became an agricultural exporter during the Gold Rush; only the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers served as larger waterways for transporting goods. A local dentist, Isaac Dias, invented the egg incubator in 1878, helping rocket the production of eggs to approximately 100 million a year by 1900, according to Petaluma historian John Patrick Sheehy.

The invention allowed egg farmers to reach new heights in production, but there was a limit, as hens were not receiving enough calcium to form egg shells, Sheehy said. Christopher Nisson, a Danish immigrant to Petaluma with an entrepreneurial spirit, found the solution in 1880: A mound of calcium-rich oyster shells in the south of San Francisco Bay that could be ground up and mixed with chicken feed.

“Nisson purchased a few of the incubators to launch the country’s first commercial egg hatchery in Two Rock,” Sheehy said. “And that essentially transformed chickens, which were seen as a pastoral farm animal, to being part of an egg assembly line.”

With the egg industry firmly entrenched as the marquee business of Petaluma – Marht said approximately 90% of residents contributed to commercial egg production – the city leaned into its image through the promotional flash and flare of Bert Kerrigan, secretary of Petaluma’s Chamber of Commerce.

“He started National Egg Day. He had an egg parade, he had an egg queen, he had an egg ball, he had an Egg Day rodeo of hens and horses,” Sheehy said. “He had staged a chicken race down San Francisco’s Market Street that was accompanied by a biplane dropping chicken feathers [affixed] with coupons for free Petaluma eggs. He’s the one who really put Petaluma on the map as the World’s Egg Basket.”

By 1930, Petaluma produced more than half a billion eggs a year, and shipped them across California, as well as the rest of the country and even internationally, Sheehy said. The onset of the Great Depression and food rationing during World War II further boosted Petaluma’s egg market as Americans sought more affordable protein sources, and eggs were golden.

“They were going all across the country by rail,” Marht said. “Petaluma was the egg capital of the world. it moved more eggs than anywhere else.”

But the advancements in refrigeration, transportation and electricity in the 1950s and 60s allowed the industry to move inland, where affordable land was plentiful, Marht said.

“That’s what really pushed it to the Central Valley of California,” Marht said. “And then, once it really took off, it pushed it all out to the Midwest, right next to where all the corn and all the feedstocks were.”

The bird flu, rising costs, and the growing market share of corporate egg producers have threatened to destroy Petaluma’s egg legacy entirely.

“We have a massive emotional investment. We’re chicken first, right? If the chicken’s not taken care of, then we won’t be taken care of,” Marht said. “It is our absolute priority to make sure that they are healthy and happy, because a stressed chicken does not lay an egg.”

The egg farms have invested millions of dollars to fight the avian flu. Petaluma Egg Farm has erected lasers that shoot over its fields and barn area to deter wildfowl from encroaching on its flock. Farm workers are required to change into separate uniforms before entering any chicken barn. The farm has even banned visitors to mitigate the spread.

“It’s a very labor-intensive process to try and keep the chickens safe,” Marht said. “Every farmer wants to do the best thing possible for its animals to make sure that they’re happy and that they produce, because at the end of the day, we are in the business of eggs, in providing customers eggs and making sure the chickens stay healthy.”

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Judge signals willingness to hear arguments over Huntington Beach’s voter ID law

• February 26, 2025

An Orange County Superior Court judge said Tuesday, Feb. 25, that he is inclined to reverse his previous dismissal in the state’s lawsuit against Huntington Beach’s voter ID law and hear arguments over the “meat and potatoes” of the case in the coming weeks.

Judge Nico Dourbetas, speaking to lawyers with Huntington Beach and the state at a hearing Tuesday, said he is leaning toward following the suggestion of an appeals court order from last week and reversing his December decision to dismiss the case.

While Dourbetas did not issue a ruling from the bench on Tuesday, he suggested arguments before him over the case’s core elements could happen sometime in April. That would speed up the ongoing legal battle between the state and Huntington Beach over the city’s voter ID law.

State attorneys have said a drawn-out legal battle will disrupt planning for the 2026 elections.

Huntington Beach voters approved Measure A last year, which added language to the city charter that said Huntington Beach could begin to ask people to show identification in city elections as soon as 2026. The state attorney general’s office followed up by suing to stop the law from getting implemented, arguing it violates multiple California laws.

City officials so far have not detailed how they intend to implement the law. Dourbetas said previously that Measure A didn’t conflict with state elections law at the time of its passing.

The state’s case against Huntington Beach received new life last week when an appeals court panel of judges issued an order asking Dourbetas to reconsider his earlier ruling that the case was not “ripe for adjudication.”

The appeals court disagreed, saying the case was a “present controversy.” The panel also described Huntington Beach’s arguments that it could regulate its elections free from state interference as “problematic.”

Anthony Taylor, an attorney for Huntington Beach, said the city is ready to make its arguments if the court wishes to do so in a few weeks. Taylor told Dourbetas that there are core issues that the appeals court hasn’t addressed that the city feels it can argue on.

Michael Cohen, an attorney for the state, said their reading of last week’s order is the appeals court would be inclined to rule in favor of the state.

To close Tuesday’s hearing, Dourbetas acknowledged that the case likely isn’t ending with however he rules.

“No matter what the ruling is here,” he said, “this is not going to be the end of the story.”

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OC judge who shot his wife admits breaking the law by drinking while carrying a concealed weapon

• February 26, 2025

An Orange County Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife admitted during testimony on Tuesday, Feb. 25, to repeatedly breaking the law by carrying a concealed weapon while drinking alcohol, including during lunch breaks before hearing criminal cases.

He continued to say that the shooting was accidental.

A day after Jeffrey Ferguson testified to accidentally shooting and killing his wife at their Anaheim Hills home on Aug. 3, 2023, when his injured shoulder gave out and he fumbled a firearm, he continually denied being criminally responsible for the death of Sheryl Ferguson during several hours of intense questioning by a prosecutor.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Seton Hunt told jurors last week that during a heated argument between the drunken judge and his wife, Jeffrey Ferguson pointed a finger at her to mimic a firearm, she said something to the effect of “Why don’t you use a real gun?”, and the judge pulled a Glock .40-caliber pistol out of his ankle holster and shot his wife.

But Ferguson told jurors in a Santa Ana courtroom that his wife actually said something like, “Why don’t you put the real gun away for me?” and then made her own “finger-gun” motion at him, making “Pshew! Pshew!” sounds to apparently mimic gunfire. Ferguson described his bad shoulder giving out as he tried to place the gun on a coffee table, causing him to fumble the firearm and accidentally hit the trigger.

“My intention was to remove it from my person so she could see I didn’t have it anymore,” Ferguson said on Tuesday of the gun. “I just wanted to please her.”

“You were just trying to be nice to her?” the prosecutor asked.

“Yes.”

“By taking a gun out of a holster when you are drunk and pointing it in her direction?”

“I never pointed it in her direction,” the judge said.

Hunt noted that the one time the judge said the firearm misfired, it hit his wife: “Of all places, it shot the person who had just been mocking you by making gun sounds?”

“It hit her, yes,” Ferguson said.

Ferguson’s attorney acknowledged that the judge is an alcoholic, and under questioning by the prosecutor Ferguson admitted to breaking the law repeatedly by drinking while carrying a concealed weapon. The judge had a concealed-carry permit — which bars people from carrying a firearm while consuming alcohol — since the mid-1980s, when he was a young prosecutor. Ferguson acknowledge that he was inebriated at the time of the shooting.

“Would you agree that handling a firearm while under the influence of alcohol is an inherently dangerous act?” Hunt asked.

“I think it depends on the surrounding circumstances,” Ferguson said. “I don’t think it is a good idea. But whether it is inherently dangerous depends on the circumstances.”

“What if you had a bad shoulder? Would it be dangerous to handle a firearm while under the influence of alcohol?”

“Yes, it is probably a bad idea.”

“Would it be dangerous to human life?”

“I think it would depend on the circumstances.”

Ferguson testified that he was so used to carrying the firearm — which he only took off to shower or to sleep — that he stopped thinking about it. During testimony on Monday he compared it to wearing a watch.

“Except a watch can’t kill a person,” the prosecutor said.

“Unless it is a James Bond movie, yes,” Ferguson responded.

Ferguson acknowledged he had a cocktail at lunch — an old fashioned — the day of the shooting, something he admitted doing once or twice a week before going back to work and hearing criminal cases.

“Did you ever consume alcohol at lunch before presiding over a trial?” Hunt asked.

“No, I went to lunch with judges mostly,” Ferguson said.

“I understand — you have a lot of powerful friends,” the prosecutor responded, drawing a quick objection from the defense.

After realizing his wife had been struck by the gunfire, Ferguson immediately went to the front yard. He testified that he left the home so paramedics could immediately tend to his wife, rather than wait for officers to search for a shooter. But he acknowledged that he left his then-22-year-old son — who had wrestled the firearm away from his father and then called 911 — to perform CPR on Sheryl Ferguson.

“You left your son with a gun in one hand, a cellphone in the other, and his dying mother on the ground?” Hunt said.

“Yes,” Ferguson said.

Immediately after the shooting, prosecutors say, Ferguson texted his courtroom clerk and bailiff, telling them: “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry.”

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter, who is presiding over the trial to avoid a conflict of interest with Ferguson’s Orange County judicial colleagues, repeatedly warned Ferguson to answer only the questions he is asked.

“While you may want to control everything, you can’t control it in here,” Judge Hunter told Ferguson at one point while the jury was on a break.

Ferguson, who has at times wept during the trial, was warned by Judge Hunter to not display emotions on the stand. During his testimony, Ferguson denied the prosecution’s implication that he was crying to manipulate the jury.

“I love Sheryl,” Ferguson said. “We did everything together. And I miss her. I hate this happened. I hate this happened to my son. I cry for him. I cry for myself. Because she is gone and I don’t have much to be around for, except my son. I can’t help it, I’m sorry.”

Closing arguments in the trial are scheduled for Wednesday morning, Feb. 26, followed by jury deliberations. The prosecution is expected to ask for a second-degree murder conviction, while Ferguson’s defense attorneys have indicated they will ask the jury to acquit him of all criminal charges.

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