After a week of hearing details of how she dragged a toddler to his death beneath her truck, Lazara Arellano de Hogue on Friday finally had the chance to defend herself.

But the woman accused of fatally dragging 3-year-old Elijah Cozart for about a mile in Towson last December chose not to testify. Her attorneys didn?t call a single witness.

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