Susan King, middle, speaks with Logan Weeks, a paralegal, during her first-degree manslaughter trial in Jackson County Circuit Court on Tuesday. King's defense attorney, John Kolego, is at right.

A Medford woman was sentenced Thursday by a Jackson County Circuit Court judge to 10 years in prison — and given credit for time served — after a jury convicted her for the second time in five years in the 2017 shooting death of her husband.

Susan King, 61, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the June 20, 2017, death of Duane King, then 58, while he was in a recreational vehicle parked in the driveway of the couple’s home in the 2800 block of Oakridge Avenue in Central Point. Jurors also had the option of convicting King on two lesser counts — second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide — if they could not reach a verdict on the first-degree manslaughter charge.

“I saw the case differently. I saw Mrs. King differently, but ultimately, you have to respect the jury’s verdict,” John Kolego, King’s Eugene-based defense attorney, said in an interview after the verdict and sentencing were announced.

He said a notice of appeal could be filed soon.

The past week marked a new trial for King, whose original 10-2 conviction of first-degree manslaughter — after being acquitted of murder — in 2018 was reversed by the Oregon Court of Appeals in 2021, following a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that nonunanimous jury verdicts were unconstitutional.

King had been released from the Jackson County Jail on bond while her new trial was pending.

Jurors began deliberations around 11:30 a.m. Thursday and came back with a verdict around 3:15 p.m., according to Kolego. The verdict was unanimous, as required by law.

Kolego said he previously advised his client not to react to the verdict.

“She accepted her fate stoically, I would say,” Kolego said.

Following the verdict being read, the court heard from members of Duane King’s family before Judge Timothy Barnack imposed a sentence of 10 years in prison, the standard sentence for such a Measure 11 offense. But the judge did give King credit for a little over four years served in prison before her original conviction was thrown out.

The prosecutors who handled King’s case, Jackson County deputy district attorneys Michael Cohen and Sara Shaw, did not respond to messages left Thursday.

The proceedings, which began on Tuesday, saw prosecutors arguing that King acted recklessly and committed first-degree manslaughter when she fired a 40-caliber semi-automatic weapon that killed her husband. Prosecutors noted the bullet hit the RV, causing the deadly projectile to split into fragments before hitting Duane King.

Kolego also told jurors the bullet split into fragments when it hit the RV but argued his client committed criminally negligent homicide because she was “agitated” and failed to be aware of “a substantial and justifiable risk” in firing at Duane King.

During the trial, prosecutors showed police body camera footage of officers asking King’s slain husband if he was still alive while he was lying in a pool of his own blood. The footage also showed King being arrested after she briefly fled the scene.

Prosecutors also played for jurors the 911 call and 2018 court testimony of Olivia Haaf, a neighbor who heard gunshots and claimed to see King push her husband’s feet back in the RV and shut the door. Haaf died between the first and second trial.

Kolego brought in William Moore, a California-based expert witness, to talk to jurors about the firearm and type of bullet used in the case.

King opted not to take the stand in her own defense.

Given his client had two trials over the fatal shooting of her husband in five years, Kolego summed up King’s feelings at this point by saying, “Mrs. King truly did love her husband and missed him everyday for seven years.”

“Even if she had been released today, she would have been devastated — and she remains devastated,” Kolego said. “She loved her husband.”