BEDFORD (AP) -- A former Virginia high school administrator denies charges that he killed estranged wife.
Testifying in his own defense, Wesley Earnest said Thursday that he was at his Chesapeake home suffering from allergies when Jocelyn Branham Earnest was shot to death in December 2007.
The defense rested its case Friday after an FBI forensic examiner testified that hair found in the victim's bathroom didn't belong to Wesley Earnest.
He is charged with first-degree murder and using a firearm in a felony.
He was an assistant principal at Chesapeake's Great Bridge High School at the time of the shooting.
Jocelyn Branham Earnest was born in Morgantown, W.Va., and graduated from West Virginia University. She was a member of the Mountaineer women's basketball team from 1989 to 1992.
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