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SCRANTON – During attorney Paul Walker’s opening statement to the jury on the fourth day of trial Friday, he admitted the case against his client was certainly “not a whodunit.”

Instead, jurors saw a video recording of William Auriemma Jr. describing to police in detail how he attacked and killed Richard Hazelton Jr. in the bathroom of his Rock Street home on Oct.

Auriemma, who is on trial for charges of first- and third-degree murder, told officers he was proud of what he did and believed he had stopped an intruder, saying he had been in the “fight of his life.”

He also told officers he hadn’t know Hazelton, who he described as an unknown intruder who had broken into in house, in spite of evidence the two had returned from rehab together just days earlier.

In spite of those facts, Walker asked jurors to consider Auriemma’s state of mind when he killed Hazelton.

A psychologist and psychiatrist will testify Auriemma didn’