AUBURN, Maine (AP) - The Latest on a fatal stabbing trial (all times local):
9:20 p.m.
The defense has dropped an insanity defense in the trial of a man who’s accused of stabbing a woman to death in front of her 11-year-old twins.
The trial of Albert Flick got underway Monday with jurors watching a video of him buying the knives two days before the assault and then a surveillance video that captured the attack.
Prosecutors said Monday that Flick stabbed 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie at least 11 times outside a Lewiston laundromat in July 2018.
Three witnesses who knew the victim testified Flick had become infatuated with her and followed her around town before the attack. Flick originally planned to use an insanity defense but he changed his mind. His lawyer urged jurors to keep an open mind.
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12:30 p.m.
People who knew a woman who was slashed to death in front of her 11-year-old twins say her 76-year-old assailant had become infatuated with her - but that she had no interest in him.
Prosecutors said Monday at Albert Flick’s murder trial that he stabbed 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie 11 times outside a Lewiston laundromat in July 2018. Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis said there’s video of Flick buying the knives and surveillance video from the laundromat.
Flick is using an insanity defense.
He previously served time for fatally slashing his wife in front of their daughter in 1979 and has been in trouble with the law since then. A judge who sentenced him for assaulting another woman in 2010 said Flick would no longer represent a threat because of age.
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12:30 a.m.
The murder trial of a man accused of stabbing a woman to death in front of her 11-year-old twins is getting under way.
Albert Flick is charged with slashing 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie outside a Lewiston laundromat in July 2018. A jury was selected last week, and opening statements are expected Monday.
Flick was 76 at the time of the crime.
He previously served time for fatally slashing his wife in front of their daughter in 1979. He has been in trouble with the law several times since his 2000 release from prison for his wife’s death.
Flick is using an insanity defense. He originally asked to have his case tried before a judge, instead of a jury. But he later changed his mind and requested a jury trial
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