On cross examination, Shavonne Hammers get tripped up by defense and questions about motives arise

Ms. Heidi Holmquist began her cross examination of Shavonne Hammers by asking her what medications she took and what her medical issues were.

Hammers said she took medications for being bipolar, nerve pain, anxiety and over the counter sleeping medication. She said she had been diagnosed as bi-polar and the pain meds were for nerve damage after a motorcycle accident. She also sees a therapist.

"At the time this happened, the drug of choice for me was meth," said Hammers. She said she did it "everyday but not daily." She told Ms. Holmquist that she could not recall what quantity she did on a regular basis. She said her heavy drug use started in her 30s and that she is "36 today." Shavonne Hammers said that she used to smoke or snort meth but last year she did it intravenously.

Hammers said she is still dating her boyfriend Andrew Asbill and has been seeing him for two years but that last year, her drug use caused problems between them. She denied using heroin when Ms. Holmquist asked her that question.

Then Ms. Holmquist showed Hammers photos of pages and asked if they were her handwriting. Hammers responded with, "It looks like my writing and looks like a notebook."

"Why would this notebook be with your belongings," asked Ms. Holmquist. "

At any point did the doctors take Tramadol away from you?" asked Ms. Holmquist.

"I have only been using it recently," said Hammers.

Ms. Holmquist asked her about using NARCO and again about heroin and Hammers denied the use.

Shavonne Hammers said that she married Harley Hammers "around 19." She said at that time he was a drug dealer and "dealing meth." Shavonne Hammers said they were both "using it." They had problems because when she had a baby, he still was using , she claimed and that she wasn't. She gave guardianship of her daughters to her in-laws and that her son, from another relationship,  did live with her and Harley Hammers for a while.

"What kid wants your mother to use drugs but they love you anyway," said Shavonne Hammers.

She teared up when Ms. Holmquist asked her about what kind of relationship she had with her daughters.

"I apologize for asking you this but is it fair to say that you experienced a lot of violence in your relationship with Mr. Hammers," asked Ms. Holmquist.

"It wasn't just him. I was physical," responded Shavonne Hammers.

She did acknowledge that her jaw was shattered in 2009 as a result of a physical interaction between Harley Hammers and her and that she lied to the police about who assaulted her. Shavonne Hammers said "her kids had women up to him strangling" her.

"I decided to leave him almost 4 years ago," said Shavonne Hammers. She said they were in a stolen vehicle and he "threw the dope and keys in" her lap and she was charged. She went to Lake County because her in-laws called her and told her that her oldest daughter tried to "kill herself because her father and I were not together." Her daughter was 13 when she attempted this. As Shavonne Hammers said this, she looked at her in-laws in the courtroom.

"My husband got another woman pregnant," said Shavonne Hammers. "Another time he left me for another woman." She said Harley Hammers wanted to get back together. "I was hard on him." Asked to explain what she meant by that, she said, "Through our marriage he'd be gone for days." She said he was "not there for our children." But then she said Harley raised her son as his own. She spoke of Harley Hammers in the present tense.

Ms. Holmquist asked her if she ever threatened to kill Harley Hammers. Shavonne Hammers said she could not remember. Then said through the marriage, he threatened her. And she admitted that she said, "I hate you " to Harley Hammers. At this point on the stand, she clarified, she was still married to Harley Hammers.

In response to a question by Ms. Holmquist, she said she did not remember how she learned that Harley Hammers and Angel Tully were dating. Ms. Holmquist showed her a transcript of an interview with HCSO Detectives Todd Fulton and Greg Musson from last year. Ms. Holmquist then read statements from that transcript.

Those statements by Shavonne Hammers were about her feelings about Angel Tully's closeness with her daughters.

"I don't remember the cursing," said Shavonne Hammers. "At first it bothered me but then I moved on." She said that "at first she was not happy that Harley Hammers took Angel Tully to visit with her daughters.

"So you knew they were dating before you came to Humboldt County?," said Ms. Holmquist.

Shavonne Hammers said she did not remember telling Angel Tully that "if she did not back off from her boyfriend and her kids, bad things would happen?"