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1of14Defendant Jessie Hernandez Jr. sits in the 437th State District Court Tuesday afternoon Aug. 4, 2015 during his aggrivated assault trial for allegedly shooting two Selma police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call. Hernandez is a former cop himself, who worked for the Corpus Christi and Robstown departmentsWilliam Luther / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less2of14Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood makes closing arguments inthe 437th State District Court, in the case against Jessie Hernandez Jr. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, who is accused of shooting two police officers.Bob Owen, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
3of144of14Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood makes closing arguments in the 437th State District Court in the case against Jessie Hernandez, who was convicted of shooting two Selma police officers.Bob Owen / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less5of14Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood using a piece of evidence, makes closing arguments in the 437th State District Court, in the case against Jessie Hernandez Jr. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, who is accused of shooting two police officers.Bob Owen, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
6of147of14Defendant Jessie Hernandez listens to closing arguments in the case against him.Bob Owen / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less8of14Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood listens to an audio tape as he makes closing arguments in the 437th State District Court, in the case against Jessie Hernandez Jr. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, who is accused of shooting two police officers.Bob Owen, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
9of1410of14Selma Police Officer Tiffany Kierum, left, confers with Selma Police Detective John Sorensen, following closing arguments by Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood in the 437th State District Court, in the case against Jessie Hernandez Jr. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, who is accused of shooting two police officers. Kierum was shot in the face.Bob Owen, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less11of14Prosecutor Jason Goss, left, confers with Bexar County District Attorney Nicholas LaHood in the 437th State District Court, before making closing arguments in the case against Jessie Hernandez Jr. on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, who is accused of shooting two police officers.Bob Owen, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
12of1413of14Defendant Jessie Hernandez Jr. sits in the 437th State District Court Tuesday afternoon Aug. 4, 2015 during his aggravated assault trial for allegedly shooting two Selma police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call. Hernandez is a former cop himself, who worked for the Corpus Christi and Robstown departments.William Luther, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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The wife of a man convicted of shooting a police officer in the face testified today in the punishment phase of his trial.
Jessie Hernandez, 35, faces up to life in prison for the September 2013 shooting of Selma Police Officer Tiffany Kierum.
District Attorney Nicholas LaHood, who is personally trying the case alongside prosecutor Jason Goss, told jurors during opening statements in the trial's punishment phase Tuesday that his office plans to seek the maximum sentence.
Roseanne Hernandez detailed for jurors her husband's history of abusive behavior, including one instance when he shoved her against a wall “belly first” so hard she broke her clavicle, she said.
She was six months pregnant at the time.
The state also played for jurors a recorded jail phone call between the couple from July 29 where he repeatedly asks her “whose side” she's on.
