Jeffrey Conroy, the 19-year-old Long Island resident accused of killing immigrant Marcelo Lucero (pictured) in a 2008 hate crime attack, told a courtroom today that he was just holding a knife for the real killer: "[Christopher Overton] said, ‘Jeff, I think I just stabbed the guy in the shoulder. I really cannot get in trouble with this. Can you please take the knife?’" Newsday reports that the judge allowed the testimony because it would allow the jury insight into Conroy's "state of mind" but he told jurors not to weigh the "truth or falsity" of the testimony. Conroy, who faces charges including second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter as hate crime, also said he lied to police in his statement confessing the crime.