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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - Jurors began debating Monday whether a 16-year-old boy is guilty of murdering his family on newsman Sam Donaldson's ranch, after a prosecutor called the teen a cold-blooded killer who hid the bodies in a manure pile and a defense attorney countered that the shootings were in self-defense.
In her closing argument, prosecutor Janice Schryer urged the jury to convict Cody Posey of first-degree murder in the deaths of his father, stepmother and stepsister despite defense claims that he suffered years of physical and mental abuse.
"It's not a case about abuse," Schryer said. "It's a case about cold-blooded, intentional murder perpetrated by Cody Posey."
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