SAN ANTONIO — The sixth day of the Melissa Perez trial centered on three ex-SAPD officers who killed the San Antonio woman in June 2023 was filled with courtroom drama—including, at one point, the possibility that the high-profile proceedings would end in a mistrial.

Judge Ron Rangel eventually dismissed that motion.

But it was just the latest indication of how there's been no lack of tension this week between state prosecutors and the defense attorneys. From the start, the judge had warned both sides to stay away from asking what is lawful and unlawful when questioning witnesses who are current San Antonio police officers.

Instead, he asserted they should focus on what they witnessed in the early morning hours of June 23, 2023, when Perez and fatally shot at her southwest-side apartmen

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