The state completed presenting its case this morning in the capital murder trial of Curtis Vance for the 2008 slaying of KATV anchor Anne Pressly.
After a brief recess following the last state witness, parties returned to the court briefly and the state officially rested. At that point, Pressly’s mother, Patti Canady, broke down in tears and friends clustered around her. The defense will be called at 1 p.m. It’s uncertain what witnesses, if any, it has planned.
The last prosecution witness was Dr. Stephen Erickson, deputy chief medical examiner for Arkansas. He described Pressly’s autopsy. He said injuries were more akin to those seen in car accidents than from blunt trauma. He said she was struck repeatedly with a blunt, heavy object, probably an elongated object made of metal or hard wood.