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The accusations against Boyd, outlined in the motion filed by Bregman, include attacking his mother and sexual assaults against young children. Boyd was arrested on suspicion of criminal sexual penetration in 1993 but not convicted, according to a state court website.

“He’s trying to get rumors into the press to influence the jury pool,” said special prosecutor Randi McGinn.

McGinn previously argued against mentioning Boyd’s past in the case. She also has tried to get motions related to Boyd’s history filed under seal so the allegations wouldn’t become public record until after the trial.

“The judge will make her own conclusion,” Bregman said. “We believe we have made a sound legal argument for why the information should come in.”

Luis Robles, Perez’s attorney, also recently filed a motion seeking to have parts of Boyd’s criminal history brought up at trial.

“Mr. Boyd’s pertinent character trait of resisting the execution of legal process is thus an element of defense,” Bregman wrote in his motion.

Sandy and Perez are facing second-degree murder and lesser charges for shooting and killing Boyd in the Sandia foothills in March 2014.

Boyd had been camping in the area without a permit, and when two uniformed officers approached him with their guns drawn, he allegedly pulled a knife on the officers. That prompted a large police response by the Albuquerque police SWAT team and members of the now-disbanded Repeat Offender Project.

Officers said in court testimony during a preliminary hearing last year that – after an hourslong standoff – they planned to trick Boyd into thinking he could leave the foothills and then throw a flash bang grenade at him, shoot him with a Taser shotgun, sic a police dog on him and then take him into custody.

But those tactics didn’t work, and Perez and Sandy shot Boyd because, they have said, they believed a fellow police officer was in danger of being injured by Boyd.

Sandy has retired. Perez was fired, but he is appealing the decision.

The city paid $5 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by Boyd’s relatives.