Shayna Hubers on the stand: More lurid details of the couple's sex life in testimony

Show Caption Hide Caption Shayna Hubers gives her testimony of shooting Ryan Poston Shayna Hubers gives her testimony of shooting Ryan Poston while defense attorneys ask her questions.

Defying the odds, testimony in the retrial of Shayna Hubers managed to veer into even stranger territory on Thursday.

Hubers, on the stand for the second day, gave lurid details of her sexual relationship with Ryan Poston, whom she fatally shot Oct. 12, 2012 in his condominium.

Hubers said Poston repeatedly asked her to get a shot that would help her achieve climax in bed. The issue of Hubers' inability to reach an orgasm during the couple's sexual encounters has been a recurring theme. She said she didn't go through with the injection.

Instead, she agreed to other sex acts with the 29-year-old Poston.

“I felt it was something that was important to him and I wanted to please him,” she said.

Campbell County Prosecutor Michelle Snodgrass read texts from Hubers to friends saying the sex acts brought them closer together. Hubers' testimony on Wednesday refuted that, though, saying they actually drove the apart.

In another exchange of text messages, Hubers asked for sex, but said Poston was taking antidepressants and didn't have a big sex drive due to side effects of the medication.

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"He also said he didn't want to have sex because I couldn't orgasm. He said he didn't see the point," Hubers said.

She also went into details about text messages the pair exchanged describing sexual activities and even a deal the couple struck in order to bring another woman into their bed.

The conditions of the deal were that he would put 10 photos of her back on his Facebook profile, and he would show more affection for Hubers and communicate more, she said.

Hubers also admitted she lied to Poston about other men she was seeing. She added trust and fidelity were issues on both sides of the relationship.

“Obviously there had been a lot of times that you were going behind each other’s backs,” Snodgrass said during cross-examination.

“Yes,” Hubers said. "Yeah, we had a lot of arguments about that."

She testified that she would log on to Poston's Facebook and block other women.

This is the second time Hubers is being tried for the death of Poston. She was previously convicted, but the result was thrown out after it was found a juror in that trial had a prior felony conviction. In Kentucky, felons are not allowed to be seated on juries.

The prosecution has said Hubers shot Poston because he was leaving her. Her defense asserts she pulled the trigger in self-defense.

Shifting stories

Snodgrass noted several changes in Hubers' accounts of what she was wearing, whether a door in Ryan Poston's condominium was locked and whether she grabbed the gun used in the shooting out of Poston's hand the night of Oct. 12, 2012.

“You’re telling the jury all the things that you think are inaccurate now are things that don’t match the physical evidence,” Snodgrass told Hubers.

In the predawn hours of Oct. 12, 2012, Hubers said she had asked Poston to take her to urgent care because she had pains in her arm and chest.

She said in testimony Wednesday that he thought she would be OK and handed her a Xanax.

She told him she was going to the doctor with her mother, she said.

“I felt like he should have taken me to the doctor,” Hubers testified.

Instead, she went to Kenwood Mall.

Later that day, she said she was afraid he was going to “snap her neck” during a sexual encounter.

Hubers gave her version of the moments immediately before she killed the 29-year-old lawyer.

"He was standing up from the chair and he was reaching across the table, I don't know if he was reaching for the gun or reaching for me," she said. "But I was still sitting on the floor at this point and time and I got up off the floor and I shot him."

What's next

Proceedings are scheduled to resume Friday morning around 11 a.m.

Hubers was excused as a witness. She could be called back for additional testimony.

The defense has built its case around the assertion that Poston was an abusive boyfriend, while the prosecution has been attempting to poke holes in Hubers' shifting versions of events and the relationship coming to an end.

The means of getting those two conflicting narratives across to jurors has meant days of uncomfortable testimony about the couple's sex life. More of the same could come on Friday, but it's difficult to say which witnesses will be called.