day of golf and binge drinking, incensed that she had had a relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player, the prosecution said. Love’s right eye was bashed in and she was hit with such power that her brain was bruised. She also had wrenching head injury that caused bleeding at the base of her brain stem.

A coroner concluded she died of blunt force trauma. Defense and prosecution experts offered different medical opinions on the lethal consequences of her injuries.

Chapman, who described the night Love was killed as a scene from a horror show, said Huguely kicked a hole in Love’s door to get in her bedroom and left his on-again, off-again girlfriend to die.

Huguely’s attorneys said she banged her head against the wall of her bedroom. Huguely claimedshe only had a bloody nose when he left.

A defense witness testified Love, then 22, smothered in her own blood-dampened pillow.

Jurors heard testimony from lacrosse players who told of Huguely’s escalating drinking problem and public spats between the two. The incidents included Huguely putting Love in a chokehold while on his bed, and one in which Love accused him of flirting with two high school girls.

Friends and fellow players said the two were unfaithful to each other and had a fiery relationship.

In a police interrogation video viewed by jurors, Huguely acknowledged he may have shaken her but insisted he didn’t grab her neck or punch her.

The prosecution said Huguely went to Love’s apartment less than one week after he sent her a threatening email about her relationship with