"I did not kill Samantha Jaume. I did not. I was not in Mandeville, La., July 4, 2001. I was not in Mandeville at all in July. I did not kill Mrs. Samantha. I did not. I did not," he said.
Robinson, 28, of Waggaman, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jaume, a 25-year-old mother of four who was shot to death in her Mandeville home during a botched carjacking. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
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Gainey, who made a deal with prosecutors and was expected to testify against Robinson, changed his story on the stand earlier this week and said Robinson was not the killer.
The defense is expected to wrap up its case in the morning, and closing arguments are expected to begin.
During his testimony, Robinson admitted he was at the Covington Wal-Mart in February 2001 with Gainey, but not in July of that year. He said he was at a family barbecue that day swimming, shooting fireworks and spending time with his son.
Robinson is already serving a life sentence in Angola for a Houma carjacking and kidnapping that took place later in 2001. But he said that case doesn'€™t make him a murderer.
"I'€™ve made mistakes in my past. I'€™ve made terrible mistakes," he said. "I can'€™t change that. It haunts me."
He said investigators kept asking him about the Terrebone case and told him if he could get in that kind of trouble he was capable of killing Jaume.
"I'€™m not a murderer," he testified. "I might appear to be because of my appearance. But you can'€™t judge what'€™s inside me until you know me."
Robinson voluntarily gave investigators a DNA sample before his arrest because "once I did that I thought I wouldn'€™t be involved in the case."
He said officers told him they had DNA evidence and he thought by giving his DNA he would be cleared.
"I raise my hand to God," he said, "I did not kill that woman."
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