Gareth Pursehouse is on trial for murder and burglary in connection with the death of Dr. Amie Harwick, a renowned Hollywood sex therapist and former fiancée of Drew Carey.
During closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors told jurors that Harwick was caught by surprise by Pursehouse, who broke into her home, waited for hours, attacked her and tossed her off the third-floor balcony. But a defense attorney countered that the woman could have fallen after climbing over the balcony following a confrontation with a man in a crisis.
"He didn't go there to talk. He's on a mission," the prosecutor said. "He's angry, he feels rejected." Pursehouse was "suffering a great emotional upheaval -- one that interfered with his thought process" after seeing her in the "chance encounter" about a month earlier that "left him reeling." Pursehouse's attorney urged jurors to acquit her client of the most serious charge -- first-degree murder and the accompanying special circumstance allegation.
An autopsy determined that the woman died from "blunt force injuries of the head and torso" and that there was evidence of "manual strangulation," according to records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office.
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