Defense Rests In Huber Re-trial, Case To Jury Tuesday

The defense has rested its efforts to defend Ken Huber from murder and manslaughter charges relating to the death of his wife Pam. Defense lawyers called Dr Roger Enoka, a professor at the University of Colorado with extensive knowledge bio-mechanics and neurophysiology. He told jurors that sympathetic contraction, loss of balance or being startled can all cause the human body to contract muscles without actively thinking about making those actions. Under cross examination Enoka said he spent around an hour preparing for Ken Huber’s 2008 trial but around seven hours getting ready for the re-trial. Enoka also had no information about how alcohol or medications can affect voluntary muscle contractions. Prosecutors called three rebuttal witnesses Monday afternoon. Seth Bradberry was critical of two reports presented by Enoka, saying he was “rather surprised that a measure of force was not used in graphs to make the information contained in the graphs easier to understand. Bradberry said quote “It seemed like an elementary mistake” He called the use stats involving the forces on the grip of a hand gun and not the trigger a “bad choice”. Franz Miritz, a forensic firearms examiner at the State Crime Lab testified, he didn’t agree with defense expert witness Tom Aveni, who thought Huber would have had to have been near the gun safe when his gun went off. Miritz said of Aveni’s theory, that the trajectory of the gun shot would made a shot from that angle nearly impossible. Mirtiz believed Huber was in the center of the bedroom door when the gun discharged. Closing statements are set for Tuesday with the fate of Ken Huber resting in the hands of a Beadle County jury shortly there after.