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Associated Press - March 16, 2010 3:15 PM ET
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) - The trial of a New Hampshire man accused of beating his landlord to death after assuming his identity and stealing his new pickup truck to trade it in for a motorcycle is headed for the jury.
Closing arguments and jury instructions in the trial of 50-year-old Paul McDonald are scheduled for Wednesday. Deliberations would follow that.
McDonald is charged with first-degree murder and two alternate counts of second-degree murder in the June 2008 death of 54-year-old Richard Wilcox in his Danville home.
McDonald's trial started March 1 in Rockingham County Superior Court.
McDonald's attorneys did not dispute McDonald killed Wilcox, but said it was because McDonald awoke to find Wilcox raping him.
They said McDonald acted out of rage.
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