Twelve jurors and four alternates watched and listened Tuesday as a state prosecutor and a high-profile defense attorney shared two versions of the night Hassan Sapry, a 27-year-old Iraqi immigrant, allegedly murdered his friend, Wilfred Guzman Sr., in Laconia, April 18, 2019.

Sapry, dressed in street clothes, repeatedly clutched a tissue to his face as he sat at the defense table in Belknap County Superior Court in Laconia. He is charged with nine offenses, including first- and second-degree murder, for causing the death of Guzman. Sapry’s first trial in 2022 was declared a mistrial.

According to lead prosecutor Jeffrey Strelzin of the state Attorney General’s Office, Sapry is a cold, calculating killer who carefully planned the bludgeoning that killed Guzman, and he celebrated the alle

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