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"A Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office captain got choked up while testifying Wednesday in Tai Chan's murder trial.Capt. Gabriel Gonzales said he asked Jeremy Martin to take a prisoner with Tai Chan back in 2014. Chan was supposed to go with another deputy, but there was a last minute change of plans.\"I saw (Martin) in the briefing room and I asked him to go on it,\" Gonzales said.Investigators said Chan killed Martin during that trip when they stopped for the night in Las Cruces.Chan's second cousin was with the two deputies at a bar that night and said they fought about a double homicide case.\"That Tai would say something about Jeremy's work and then Jeremy would get ... upset?\" asked defense attorney Tom Clark.\"Yes,\" Nicole Jaymes said.Chan's attorneys called their first two witnesses Wednesday afternoon, including Dr. Philip Trompetter, who specializes in police psychology.He said Chan's self-defense claim is very plausible.\"If Jeremy Martin has Tai Chan's gun in his hand and he's punching Tai Chan repeatedly in the face ... does that raise the level of deadly threat?\" defense attorney John Day said.\"Yes,\" Trompetter said.Afterwards, prosecutors reminded the jury that Martin was shot five times in the back.The defense's second witness was an expert in alcohol consumption, Cecile Marczinski. Marczinski is an associate psychology professor, and claimed Chan had a blood alcohol level of .24 that night.She said someone that drunk is not capable of premeditated murder.But Marczinski admitted she never tested Chan's blood. She only estimated his BAC by reviewing what he ate and drank that night.These defense witnesses were called out of order because they had to be flown in for the trial.Prosecutors are expected to call its witnesses again on Thursday, including Chan's wife, who was on the phone with Chan at the time of shooting."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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