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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 returned guilty verdicts on the most serious charges they were allowed to consider.
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 pathologist who performed the
examination.