Prosecution Rests First Deined Witness Testifys For Defense In Huber Re-trial

After seven and a half days of testimony and 68 witnesses, the State of South Dakota has rested it’s case against Ken Huber. Attorneys for Huber called two witnesses Thursday morning. John Farnam operates Defense Training International, a consulting firm that specializes in firearms training for law enforcement. Farnam was asked by prosecutor Robert Mayer to look over the evidence collected in the shooting death or Pam Huber. Farnam told jurors he believed based on the “totality of the evidence” that the death of Pam Huber was not consistent with that of an accident. Defense attorney Clint Sargent challenged Farnam’s response noting to jurors Farnam has no training in homicide investigation or forensics. One of the two witnesses who Judge James Anderson allowed to testify for the defense got his chance on the stand Thursday. Sargent Craig Wood of the Pennington County Sheriff’s office has a duty weapon, identical to Ken Huber’s Glock Model 22 handgun. Wood was the “designated point man” as officers served a drug-related warrant in a double mobile home. Wood said a sympathetic muscular response happened to him as he attempted to turn on the light on his gun while kicking in the door to a room after the lights on the 25 pound ballistic shield he was carrying failed to illuminated on. Wood told jurors when he removed his finger from the safe position above the trigger to turn on the gun light, the action of kicking in the door caused his hand muscles clinch closed, striking the trigger and discharging a round. Wood, after looking a Ken Huber’s Law Enforcement Training Review, felt he had more weapons training that Huber. Anderson told jurors, that two witnesses are scheduled for Monday and that jurors could have the case by Tuesday of next week. A last minute motion by prosecutors to exclude the second expert witness defense lawyers were denied in the first trial was denied by Anderson