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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- An admitted killer who stabbed to death his former girlfriend last year was in court Friday, trying to get a sentencing deal he was offered before reinstated.

But as CBS 2's John Slattery reported, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is asking that he get the max.

Raul Barrera, 34, who avoided trial by pleading guilty, listened to 911 calls from neighbors who could hear his victim screaming.

"There is a woman screaming like she is being hurt.

I can still hear her.  She is screaming," a voice on the recording said.

Barrera admitted to the April 2011 Lower East Side murder of his former girlfriend, 23-year-old Sarah Coit.  She was stabbed a dozen times with a kitchen knife and left for dead.

A half hour later, while she was still alive, Barrera showed up in a police station admitting to what he did.

In court, Barrera came face to face with the victim's father, Lynde Coit of Greenwich, Conn. He related a text message he received from his da