ROCKLAND
A Maine jury has convicted a Maine man with bashing his wife with a rock and pushing her off a cliff.
Seventy- one- year- old Charles Black has been found guilty of all charges, which include attempted murder, two counts of elevated aggravated assault and three counts of aggravated assault.
His attorney made the case Monday that the details surrounding Black and Lisa Zahn’s fall from Maiden Cliff in Camden were too fuzzy to convict Black. Prosecutors said investigators found Zahn’s blood on Black’s jacket and shoes.
Police said Black hit 55- year-old Zahn in the head with a rock before pushing her off the cliff in 2011. Both survived after tumbling 800 feet down the mountainside.
Prosecutors said Black and Zahn were having a dispute over how Black spent some of Zahn’s inheritance.
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