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“Showing a pattern of behavior, Your Honor,” Yuki shot back.
Sullivan said, “I’d like to answer that, Your Honor.”
“Go ahead,” Froman said, as if to say,It’s your funeral.
“Barbara liked to pull the sympathy card,” said Sullivan, “and then change her mind at the last minute.”
“So, that’s a ‘yes,’” Yuki said. “Your wife has had to call the police on you in the past.”
“Yes, she called the police a few times to scare me but always dropped the charges. Until now.”
Yuki said, “As I understand your testimony, Barbara was goading you with a knife. You snatched it. And she kicked you in the testicles.”
“That’s what happened. And that’s why I snapped.”
“By ‘snapped,’ do you mean that you bound her hands and feet to free weights, sliced her up, kicked her to the point of destroying one of her kidneys, broke three ribs and punctured her right lung, broke her right leg in three places, as well as fractured her skull, resulting in a severe concussion and possible brain damage. And you blinded her in one eye. Do I have that right, Mr. Sullivan?”
“It was like someone else took me over. I didn’t know what I was doing. I wish I could take every bit of that back.”
“That’s a ‘yes’?”
“Yes. Apparently, I did that.”
“In order to wreak this damage on your wife and mother of your children you had to assemble your arsenal of instruments in advance, correct?”
“Most of it was already in the basement. She brought the knife.”
“Isn’t it possible, Mr. Sullivan, that Barbara brought the knife to protect herself against your abuse?”
“No. It isn’t.”
“Emergency Medicine Doctor Michael Parker testified that from the partial healing of her superficial wounds, it was evident that you’d worked Barbara over for twenty-four hours, is that correct?”
No answer from Sullivan.
“Your Honor, please direct Mr. Sullivan to answer the question.”
“Mr. Sullivan. You must answer.”
“Yes, Your Honor. I spaced out just now. What was the question.”
“Ms. Castellano, please restate your question.”
“Did you chain and restrain and beat your wife for a period of twenty-four hours?”
“I didn’t keep track of the time.”
“And did you know that your children could hear their mother calling out to them and knew that you were hurting her?”
“Objection, Your Honor,” Mo Switzer said. “Prejudicial. No foundation for this line of question by the prosecution.”
Froman sustained the defense objection and told the jury to ignore the prosecution’s question.
Yuki said, “I just have one more question, Mr. Sullivan. You maintain that you had no intention of killing Barbara James Sullivan, your beloved wife. And yet, when you saw her semi-conscious, bleeding profusely, soaked in blood, you didn’t call for an ambulance, did you?”
No answer from Sullivan. Yuki continued, “The reason you didn’t call the police is that you wanted her to die, isn’t it?”
When Sullivan didn’t reply, Yuki let the silence gather like a storm over the courtroom, then said, “I have no further questions.”
