The testimony phase in the Cheryl McCafferty murder trial should wrap up on Monday.
The defense rested its case Thursday morning. The prosecution called two rebuttal witnesses in the afternoon, but only one testified.
As a large crowd gathered outside the courtroom, supporters of Cheryl McCafferty passed around pink ribbons.
The pin had the word 'believe' on it.
"I'm just wearing it so she can see somebody cares about what's going on with her. I've never visited her, I've not done any of that. I'm just supportive of her and her issue. I believe her," said Donna Kautz of Bellevue, Kentucky.
Cheryl McCafferty's mother arrived and received a ribbon along with hugs of support.
Members of Robert McCafferty's family were also on hand as they have been since the very beginning.
Their attorney and spokesperson Dave Bender says they are not commenting until the trial is over.
After the criminal trial Cheryl McCafferty faces a wrongful death lawsuit.
There is a hearing in civil court at the end of the month.
When everyone was allowed back into the courtroom, the judge ordered the ribbons to be removed so the jury wouldn't see evidence of support for one side or the other.
After attorney Frank Mungo announced the defense was resting, prosecutors called rebuttal witness Patty Green.
Green is a longtime friend of Robert and Cheryl McCafferty.
She recalled a conversation she had with Cheryl about a modeling contract offered to their daughter, Molly, in Los Angeles.
Green told jurors Cheryl said she would have to go with Molly to L.A. since Molly was under 18-years-old.
"It was so obvious she and Bob were not on the same page but she was entertaining the idea," said Green.
After Green's quick testimony, the jury was dismissed and told to come back on Monday for closing arguments when they will decide Cheryl McCafferty's future.
The 44-year-old mother of two could face life in prison if convicted of murdering her husband, Robert McCafferty, by shooting him to death in their Fort Thomas home on June 25, 2007.
Robert McCafferty, 44, was shot once in the head in the couple's bed in the master bedroom of the family's home on Madonna Place.
On Wednesday, the defense presented expert witnesses who testified about evidence concerning whether Robert was still laying on his pillow when he was shot.
Ross Gardner, a blood stain expert for the defense, says he believes Robert might have started to sit up when his wife shot him in the head.
However, the prosecution's own expert witness has previously testified that evidence shows Robert had his head on his pillow, and was possibly sleeping, at the time of the shooting.
Prosecutors previously said Cheryl was more than $50,000 in debt on credit cards and allegedly forged her husband's checks before the deadly shooting.
Prosecutors said Cheryl was obsessed with starting a modeling career for her daughter against her husband's wishes. That obsession may have helped fuel the mounting credit card debt that according to testimony climbed $30,000 over seven months.
Prosecutors also said they found evidence on Cheryl's computer that she had done extensive research on the case of Amy Bosley, another Campbell County wife who pleaded guilty to shooting her husband to death as he slept in 2005.
Defense attorneys contend that Cheryl was verbally and physically abused by her husband.
In testimony Cheryl said Robert pistol whipped her the night before the shooting, threw her into a closet, shot at her and held a gun to her head hours before the shooting.
"You need to die," Cheryl testified her husband had told her or else he would kill the kids.
"I shot him. I didn't aim. I didn't mean it. I didn't plan it. All I knew [was] I had to stop him," she testified.
Jury instructions and closing arguments will begin on Monday.
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