Coe defense rests, jury will have case Wednesday

04:39 PM PDT on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Lee Stoll, KREM.com Click links below for more details SPOKANE--Kevin Coe's attorneys rested their case Tuesday morning without calling him back to the stand. Steve Murphy, KREM.com Kevin Coe's lawyers rested their defense Tuesday morning. The man known as the South Hill Rapist is fighting the state's effort to have him committed to a facility for sexually violent predators. The case ended early after the judge told prospective jurors testimony was supposed to last six weeks. It was over in less than three weeks. Coe's attorneys were going to introduce 1981 testimony from his father, but decided against it. Instead, the last witness was a Coe family friend. Carolyn Black said she was 13 when she first met the Coe family through Kevin's younger sister, Kathy. Black saw Kevin Coe as an... [read full story]