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Prosecutor: Taxi driver begged for mercy before shooting
Trial begins for woman accused of slaying legal immigrant in 2014
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Nicole Bailes, Hall County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman deputy, identifies the defendant during the murder trial for Isaias Tovar-Murillo, a taxi driver for El Palmar, at the Hall County Superior Court on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. Tovar-Murillo’s body was found March 16 in the woods near Barrett and Dorsey Peek roads in Gainesville. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Isaias Tovar-Murillo begged for mercy from the woman riding in his cab before the gun fired, Assistant District Attorney Shiv Sachdeva said in opening statements Tuesday afternoon. The trial for Misty Sunshine Moran, 39, of Gainesville, began around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Superior Court Judge Jason Deal’s courtroom. Sachdeva opened his speech to the jury with a summation of Tovar-Murillo’s life, a 46-year-old man who legally immigrated into the United States from Mexico and toiled for long hours as one of the hardest working taxi drivers at Taxi El Palmar.