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Humboldt County Office of the District Attorney release:
On May 5, 2021, a Humboldt County jury found Jason Ryan Barnes, age 48, of Eureka, guilty of one count of involuntary manslaughter for the homicide of Bernhard “Ben” Bertain and two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The jury also found true the special allegations that Mr. Barnes personally caused great bodily injury or death and personally used a deadly weapon. Barnes had been charged with second degree murder. Prior to jury deliberations, Judge Timothy Canning acquitted Mr. Barnes of that charge and the lesser included charge of voluntary manslaughter. Thus, the jurors...
ETTERSBURG MURDER CASE: Prosecutors Play Jailhouse Phone Tapes for the Judge; Medical Examiner Testifies Murder victim Jason Todd Garrett was killed by a bullet that entered his left eye and exited the back of his neck, district attorney’s Investigator Marvin Kirkpatrick testified Tuesday during the preliminary hearing for alleged killer Ryan Anthony Tanner. Kirkpatrick attended the autopsy for Garrett on Feb. 22, one week after the 26-year-old was shot to death in a cabin on Crooked Prairie Road in the Ettersburg area. On Tuesday he read from a report by Dr. Mark Super, the forensic pathol...