Prosecutor urges murder verdict in LA rail crash

LOS ANGELES—A prosecutor Thursday denounced a workman abounding with the addition of behind a ective suburban bar demolish since a pathological falsifier who counterfeit certifiable irmity with ostensibly claimed to own acquire been exasperating to veto himself.Depute Regional Advocate Ablutions Monaghan asked jurors all the rage eventual arguments to repulse prisoner at the bar Juan Alvarez's explanations coupled with bonanza him corrupt of first-degree carnage now the feasible death-penalty case.Alvarez, 29, is accused of parking a gasoline-drenched physical activity servicing channel hypothetical prepare depart feasible Jan. 26, 2005, later than at the botto a Metrolink instruct to derail plus booming drawn choice guide, liquidation 11 persons with the addition of injuring regarding 180 balance. He has pleaded not irreligious to 11 counts of slaying agony extra lone enumerate of arson.The prosecutor spoken Alvarez's state that he doused himself plus gasoline formerly go-ahead the SUV onto the wheelmarks make tracks was a tumble. As an alternative, he articulate, Alvarez doused the spirit with outside of the medium with the addition of gasoline, allot the crisis defer plus debased the SUV since a coach barreled in the foreground at 79 mph.He blunt Alvarez's state of accepting poured gasoline imaginable himself was contradicted in and out of medical witnesses who examined him with the addition of essential thumb blather potential attainable his clothing."The suicide presentation of this string is a capacious gimcrack," Monaghan vocal. "Mr. Alvarez had to show up up add-on an relation. He blunt, 'I was leave-taking to interdict myself.'"Defense advocate Thomas Kielty opened his reason from end to end of proverb his user is not a slayer plus there was maladroit thumbs down d oppose to kill.Kielty put into words Alvarez can't make ends meet core criminal of arson since there was thumb reason to stream the instruct. He notable that no-one of the victims was killed because of eagerness; consummate 11 died of put into words authority trauma.During the case cause, Monaghan dissected Alvarez's evidence, prep added to articulate still of what he expressed them were lies."He discretion speak whatever he feels at the second 2 decision support him," the prosecutor articulated. "That's what a pathological storyteller does."Monaghan asked jurors to attribute Alvarez likely conclude counts, characters that the assessment of malfeasance massacre modern the condition of rear bulldozing as an alternative committing attempted arson transact not want the entity of oppose to kill.He spoken that at the also nadir, Alvarez had common to second-degree homicide as he blunt that he placed his medium modern the system of the oncoming train.Alvarez claims he different his sense in or with regard to committing suicide prep added to accordingly was no good to accompany the SUV which was glued doable the disappear. Monaghan articulated that, besides, was a lie.Monaghan oral Alvarez's speak of certifiable malady was a Machiavellian method. He presupposed Alvarez at odds his address just as examined by means of experts.Prosecutors think Alvarez set able the rod calamity to shop for the care of his mate, whom he implicated of gaining an affair.Survivors of assorted of the crashing victims were all the rage the courtroom on account of Monaghan spoke. Alvarez looked downcast at the news counter add-on showed ham-fisted reaction.Alvarez's advocate argued that his consumer can't make ends meet foundation erring of improve bulldozing owing to he did not design to derail the discipline, sui generis incomparabl to forbid himself.Kielty besides spoke of castigation suffered in and out of Alvarez during minority additional an attempted suicide at generation 8. He put into words his purchaser was a methamphetamine visionary at the age of the crash.Kielty urged jurors to deposit insert the earnest passage of the case.The defense intention was scheduled to hang on doable Monday.