Gareth Pursehouse, 45, was convicted of first-degree murder for throwing 38-year-old Amie Harwick from the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills home in 2020.
The ex-boyfriend of a well-known marriage and sex therapist was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder for throwing the woman from the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills home.
Mariano said she thought it was apparent that the defense"wanted to convince the jurors that Amie Harwick climbed over this balcony on her own and incidentally fell to her death." 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," she said.
Prosecutors argued 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. The deputy district attorney said Pursehouse broke into the woman's home, waited for three to four hours, punched and strangled her as she tried to fight for her life and then dropped her over the balcony.The two had dated years earlier for about 18 months, with Harwick ultimately obtaining a restraining order against him in 2012.
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