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Teen's murder trial opens in Grants Pass Prosecutors lay out case against boy in lodge owner's death The Associated Press GRANTS PASS -- Prosecutors said Friday that a Wolf Creek teen may not have pulled the trigger in the slaying of a popular lodge owner, but he supplied the gun and encouragement for his younger half-brother to do it. The defense countered that there is nothing to prove Josh Cain was even at the remote clearcut where the slaying took place last summer, and not enough evidence to convict him. Cain, 19, faces a felony murder charge alleging he helped his 15-year-old half-brother, Trevor Walraven, kill Black Bar Lodge owner Bill Hull for his 1997 Suburban and some cash a few miles from their remote mountain home. No trial date has been set for Walraven, who faces more serious charges of aggravated murder. He is appealing a judge's ruling that he stand trial as an adult. District Attorney Tim Thompson told the jury a friend of the teens, Nick Haynes, will testify that Walraven described killing Hull, and that Hull asked three times whether he was to be killed. Forensics experts will show that a bullet found on a firing range at the brothers' home matches the one that killed Hull, the district attorney added. Thompson said the boys were inseparable as they grew up on 52 acres outside the community of Wolf Creek. Cain owned a .357-caliber revolver and Walraven a .22-caliber revolver. "What one brother obtained, the other brother obtained," Thompson said. On the day of the slaying, the brothers made a date to take two girls to Grants Pass, but didn't have a car to carry the four of them, Thompson said. A few hours later, they picked up the girls in Hull's Suburban. Defense attorney Robert Abel told the jury that the prosecution has a lot of evidence that doesn't add up to much. "An important factor is what the state has not proved," Abel said. "The holes, the holes in the case." Abel said the evidence provides a basic frame that appears solid, but closer examination will reveal that it falls apart. "Is the state proving beyond a reasonable doubt?" Abel asked. "Sometimes as you listen you look at the interpretation instead of the actual fact. "Look at the evidence and see if there's any evidence that Bill Hull's path crossed Joshua Cain." The first witness was Sally Hull, Bill Hull's widow, who testified she returned from a trip to find her husband missing. She also identified items from the Suburban. Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA