Penn Jurors Get Lesson on Guns
Jurors considering charges against Sagon Penn, who is accused of killing a police officer and wounding another officer and an observer, heard a detailed discussion of guns Friday afternoon.
Lance Martini, a gun expert, testified in the retrial and showed jurors drawings of the revolver used by Penn.
Jurors then received a replica of the gun and passed it among themselves. All of them squeezed the trigger several times as part of the demonstration of how the gun is fired.
Ending the day was the 32nd witness, Stephen Bowlin, a fire department worker who did CPR on dying Police Agent Thomas Riggs at the Encanto scene on March 31, 1985.
Penn is charged with manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
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