The forewoman of the jury that convicted Gerhardt Konig of attempted manslaughter due to extreme mental or emotional disturbance spoke to reporters after the verdict yesterday. “She said that he tried to push her. He said she tried to push him. So how did you how did you figure that out? How did you determine what happened?” a reporter asked. (If anyone knows the reporter’s name please tell me so I can credit her.) “The determination about what happened at the end was that we had to compare both testimonies from both of the people that were involved in the incident at the Pali Puka Trail,” Makalapua Atkins said. “So based on Arielle’s Konig’s testimony, and putting it side by side by Dr. Konig’s testimony, and kind of just finding out what matches and what doesn’t, finding a timeline and seeing the crime scene for what it was, and kind of making a decision from there,” she said. 02:47 “So did you believe that he tried to push her?” “The pushing part was not really anything that we were determining on, because they both said they pushed each other. So we definitely agreed that a push occurred.” “But that they pushed each other, and not so much that one tried to throw the other one off the cliff?” 03:44 “So we did determine that there was definitely a scuffle on top of the Pali Puka Trail that resulted in an injury to the head that could be bodily injury and serious.” 04:06 “He did state that he hit her with the rock two times.” 04:41 “They both had showed that there was relationship issues that there had begun prior to this situation on Pali Puka Trail …” 05:29 Reporter: “And what did you take from her test his testimony about the affair? I mean, the defense really hammered at the fact that she had an affair. Did you find evidence of an affair, or were you not sure about that?” 05:54 “In her testimony, she did admit to having some sort of an affair. And so that admission alone does say that an affair had been had.” “And so what did you take from that? Did you did you think that that inflamed the situation? Do you think that was the root of his emotional distress?” “I’m not necessarily sure if that was the root, but I do commonly believe that somebody that’s been married to someone for eight years, in a relationship for that long, and having some kind of affair happen after having two young kids under the age of two, might have some kind of emotional disturbance.”