The jury in Bob Ward’s second trial got a close up look at the gun Ward is charged with using to shot and kill his wife, Diane.

Prosecutors say Ward intentionally killed his wife in the couple’s Isleworth mansion in September 2009 as pressure mounted from a business bankruptcy.

Diane Ward died just days before she was due to give a deposition in bankruptcy proceedings.

That is the basis for a motive the state is beginning to lie out.

Prosecutors questioned Roy Kobert, a commercial bankruptcy lawyer, Thursday. He told the jury that Bob Ward expressed displeasure at Diane Ward having to answer questions involving Ward’s company.

Defense attorney Craig Gillen told the jury the day before that Diane Ward was more valuable to Bob Ward alive, than dead, because while she was alive, creditors could not come after the couple’s shared assets.

Ward is on trial for a second time for the 2009 death of his wife. He was first convicted, and sentenced to 30 years in prison, in 2011. Last year a judge agreed to a retrial, after finding previous defense attorneys did not properly handle and object to evidence in the case.

Assistant State Attorney Will Jay told the jury during opening statements that science would prove it was an intentional act of murder.

He has relied on extensive forensic testimony for the beginning of the trial, calling a series of investigators from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Jay showed off to the jury Thursday the gun involved and some of the blood stained clothes and bed sheets taken from the Ward home the night of the shooting.

The defense worked Thursday to question aspects of the investigation and why certain tests were not done.

“Are you telling this jury you cannot test gunshot residue on clothing?” Gillen asked an OCSO crime scene technician who testified Thursday.

She replied “no," but told the jury previously that technology exists to detect gunshot residue on a person’s hands but not clothing.

Gillen also took issue with a series of high-speed photos taken by investigators with the help of Miami Dade Medical Examiner’s Office. The photos reportedly demonstrated aspects of the weapon involved in being fired.

“The resolution has been enhanced,” Gillen pressed the lead investigator when on the stand. “When you said (the photos) truly and accurately depict what is shown there in the photos, they don’t really show actual pictures of what was taken down there, do they?”

Prosecutors rebutted that enhancements to the photos in no way altered the validity of the photos.

“As far as enhancing goes, was that just to go enhance what’s visible, or did you look at the photographs and say ‘you know what, explosions are not big enough, we need bigger explosions, Michael Bay this photo up,'” said Assistant State Attorney Mark Interlicchio.

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