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By DAMON LAWRENCE

rclawrence@bellsouth.net

Mike Brown was on the ground, paralyzed from the waist down when he received a shot to the head that sent his jaw bone flying down Barnard Narrows Road.

Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, a forensic pathologist, stuck to that story no matter how much defense attorney Randy Rogers tried to debunk her testimony on Thursday in Rocky Houston's double-murder trial.

By DAMON LAWRENCE

rclawrence@bellsouth.net

After three days of cool analysis on ballistics, guns mechanics and police training, an eyewitness to the May 11, 2006, shootout took the stand in the Rocky Houston double-murder trial Thursday.

The testimony of Anne Watts was in sharp contrast to the clinical testimony of law enforcement experts.

Smoking with friends, a creeping patrol car, an agitated brother and sudden bursts of gunfire.

By DAMON LAWRENCE

rclawrence@bellsouth.net

Testimony is under way in Rocky Houston's double murder trial. Pat Brown, the mother of Mike Brown, was the first witness to take the stand this morning.

Brown, a former lawman, was on disability when he was shot to death on May 11, 2006.

“He got his first check the week before he was killed,” Brown said.