Second Earlier Denied Expert Witness Testifys For Defense In Huber Re-trial

The second expert witness not allowed to testify at the first trial of former Highmore police chief Ken Huber has been under heavy cross examination most of the morning at Huber’s retrial in Huron. Thomas Aveni says he has audited hundred’s of police shootings in his time as co-founder and executive director of the Police Policy Study Council. Avani says based on his review of evidence in the case including a lack of gun shot residue found on the door frame of the bedroom, the shooting of Pam Huber was an accident. Aveni believes Huber held the gun somewhere between his chest and abdomen with his left hand as he opened the door of a gun safe with his right hand. What concerned Aveni was how a single cartridge casing ended up at the opposite end of the hall. Deputy Attorney General Robert Mayer again renewed his objection to Aveni being allowed to testify based on the face much of the information Aveni was testifying to was anticdotal and  based on facts and that the same information was not provided to prosecutors. The request was denied by Judge James Anderson. That set the stage for a heated cross-examination by Mayer. Assistant Attorney General Pattie DeVaney was questioning Aveni on his experience with gun shot residue at the noon recess