Gail Gerlach testifies that a police officer pointed his hand like a gun and told him that if the shooting happened as he described, and he had indeed seen the victim wave something like a gun at him, then Gerlach was probably not going to be charged with a crime at a pretrial hearing Friday at the Spokane County Courthouse. Gerlach is the northside plumber who fired a single shot at a fleeing car thief, killing him in March of 2013. Gerlach's attorneys are trying to get pre-Miranda statements thrown out of the trial evidence. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley?

In a Spokane courtroom Friday, Gail Gerlach described the morning of March 25 as routine, other than his wife running behind getting ready for work. “Things were a bit hastened,” Gerlach said. “I got up and I got dressed. I brushed my teeth, and then I came back into my bedroom and I retrieved my gun, like I usually do.” Within the next few hours, Gerlach had fired that semiautomatic pistol at the Chevrolet Suburban that had been stolen from his driveway. The single shot killed driver Brendon Kaluza-Graham, 25, almost instantly, according to the medical examiner’s report, and set into motion an investigation whose fairness was at the center of a hearing lasting into the evening Friday/Kip Hill, SR. More here.

Question: You be the jury. How should this case go?