He slapped her face and grabbed her hand violently, Mr. Perez said, adding that the driver would testify that after she got out of the car, Mr. Majors threw her “like a football” back inside. Throughout their relationship, Mr. Majors had shown a need to maintain control, Mr. Perez told the jurors, and in March, he had shown “no hesitation” in using physical force against Ms. Jabbari. The altercation resulted in a fracture to Ms. Jabbari’s middle finger on her right hand, as well as pain and swelling in her arm and right ear, Mr. Perez said. Mr. Perez cast the assault as the natural finale of a relationship that became abusive shortly after it began, two years before the assault. Mr. Majors, wearing a dark suit with a gilded Bible and a large binder on the table before him, spent much of Mr. Perez’s argument facing the front of the courtroom, his face blank.

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