California woman on trial for killing her husband on his birthday blames seizure medication

A wife stabbed her husband to death the morning of his birthday in 2021 as he lay in bed at their Santa Ana home, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday at the outset of the woman’s murder trial.

A defense attorney acknowledged that Michelle Gutierrez, then 32, killed her husband — 38-year-old Cesar Reyes Zuna — at their home in the 1000 block of West Bishop Street but blamed the slaying on mental issues related to medication she had been taking to help prevent seizures.

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