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Defense Rests Case Of Ky. Football Coach


Last Update: 9/17/2009 11:43 am
By BRETT BARROUQUERE
Associated Press Writer


LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The defense has rested in the case of a former Kentucky high school football coach charged with reckless homicide.

The end of the case for former Pleasure Ridge Park coach David Jason Stinson came Thursday morning, after testimony from Dr. William Smock, an emergency medicine professor at the University of Louisville.

Smock testified by video that the attention deficit disorder drug Adderall was the main factor in causing the heat stroke that caused 15-year-old Max Gilpin to collapse on Aug. 20, 2008, at the end of practice. Gilpin died three days later at a Louisville hospital.

Jurors are set to begin deliberations in the case later Thursday. Stinson also faces a charge of wanton endangerment. Prosecutors said Stinson ran a brutal practice the day Gilpin collapsed. Stinson's defense says the practice wasn't unusually hard.
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