Updated: Gentle Woman On Trial For Shooting Lawyer Boyfriend Dead; Alleging He Called Her A Hillbilly.

Posted October 27, 2012 4:33 PM ET; Last updated August 4, 2015 8:36 PM ET


Troubled: Poston's family described his relationship with Hubers,
left, as tumultuous and said that the 29-year-old was trying to end it

Don't know enough about this young lady. But my reaction is that she may have felt humiliated by this young man. Maybe he did consider her a hillbilly, and beneath him. It may be the same class difference (real or imagined) as between Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias. Many people have poor or low self esteem. The testimony in the Arias trial showed that she was devoted to Travis and wanted to marry him. He seemed to be treating her as his sex slave which she was willing to be. She just wanted to marry the guy. When  he expressed his disdain for her, she lost it and killed him. 

That is not to say she was justified in killing him. Nor was Jayna in this murder either. Just that it may explain why it happened, and that there is no method for bringing that into the trial. Classism is seldom discussed or mentioned when it comes to bias and discrimination. If these men had expressed their dislike for the women for being black or lesbians they might have been able to use that bias, hate speech, as justification for murder. "He insulted me. He called me a N-word." "He called me a hillbilly." and "He called me a cripple." do not work as easily.  

[From article]
The night that Ryan Poston was shot dead by his on-again, off-again girlfriend he was supposed to meet a former Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen for a date, an Ohio court heard on Thursday.
Audrey Bolte, who also finished runner-up in Miss USA, told prosecutors she was looking forward to seeing Poston, 29, at a bar to play pool and drink on October 12, 2012, but he failed to arrive.
That was because Shayna Hubers had shot him six times at home - during which she allegedly 'cackled' with glee claimed a cellmate of the accused, who claims the 24-year-old confessed to her while behind bars.
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Prosecutors allege that Hubers shot Poston because she was furious he was trying to break up with her.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, denies murdering her lawyer boyfriend and claims she shot him in self-defense.
Her trial began on Monday and during that time, Hubers has been held at the Campbell County jail in Newport.
Her romer cellmate testified to the court that Hubers joked about the shooting and said she was going to get off all charges.
'Did she ever laugh?' Commonwealth's Attorney Michelle Snodgrass asked Cecily Miller according to Cincinnati.com.
'Oh, yes.'
'About what?'
'About shooting him in the face and giving him the nose job he always wanted,' said Miller. 'That's what bothered me – she cackled.'

 
Trial: Shayna Hubers attends her murder trail in Campbell, Ohio. Hubers is charged with murder in the shooting death of her boyfriend, Ryan Poston.

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Also on the stand was Vernon West, who lived in the condo below Poston with his wife Doris.
They testified they returned home at around 8.30pm and heard a woman crying on a balcony above.
West said that she returned inside the home at around 8.50pm and then he heard two pops that at first he thought were fireworks and then four more and then a thud.
'The first two shots, I thought might have been fireworks,' Vernon West testified according to Cincinnati.com.
'But a few seconds later, I heard four shots, and I knew that wasn't fireworks.'
Vernon West also said that they did not hear a physical fight or arguing before the shots.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, claimed she was acting in self-defense because the young attorney was shoving and hitting her, but during an interview with police she was quoted as telling a detective she gave Posten 'the nose job he wanted.'
On the first day of testimony Tuesday, jurors were shown a video of the defendant's interview with police following the slaying.
'He was screaming at me at the top of his lungs after he had thrown me around the room,' the woman told a detective sitting across from her, reported Cincinnati.com.
'I shot him enough times to kill him,' she said, 'so that he wouldn't suffer... He was laying there, twitching and making noises, and I shot him in the head.
'I was watching him die. it was painful to watch him die and to know that I had done that,' reported WCPO.
Hubers then described her late boyfriend of one year as 'vain' about his looks.
'I shot him right here,' she said in the video as she pointed to her nose. 'I gave him his nose job he wanted.'

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'He said, 'You're just a hillbilly from Kentucky.' And I am. I guess the hillbilly came out in me, and I took up for myself,' she told police in the recording played in court.
[. . .]
Hubers graduated from Lexington's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in 2009.
In the fall of 2010, she made the Dean's List at the University of Kentucky as a sophomore psychology major. Zevely said she is close with her parents, and her mother spent the day with her in Northern Kentucky prior to the shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044086/Woman-cackled-shot-lawyer-boyfriend-trying-dump-beauty-queen-voted-Miss-Ohio-2012-court-hears.html

Woman 'cackled' as she shot dead her lawyer boyfriend as he tried to dump her for Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen
Ohio court hears that Ryan Poston was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte the night he was shot dead
Shayna Hubers, shot dead lawyer Ryan Poston in 2012
She claims it was in self-defense but the prosecution claims it was murder
Hubers, then 21, told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to put him out of his misery
By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES NYE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:53 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 07:30 EST, 18 April 2015



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223787/Shayna-Hubers-Woman-shot-dead-lawyer-boyfriend-Ryan-Poston-giving-nose-job-wanted.html

'I gave him the nose job he always wanted': Woman 'shot lawyer
boyfriend twice in the head... then four more times to stop the
twitching'
Detective: Shayna Hubers 'said she gave him the nose job he wanted'
Ryan Poston, 29, was found shot dead in his Ohio condominium
Couple dated for at least a year, but Poston's family said their
relationship was rocky and he wanted to end it
Hubers told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to
put him out of his misery
Poston had his own law practice specializing in personal injury cases
Hubers' bond was raised to $5million after being lowered by another judge
By SNEJANA FARBEROV and NINA GOLGOWSKI
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:36 EST, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 16:13 EST, 26 October 2012