
Although she was read her Miranda rights, Hubers voluntarily spoke to police. That night, during her interrogation, she alleged that her relationship with Poston had been abusive. Hubers shot Poston six times, but she continually maintained that the killing was in self-defense. On October 12, 2012, Hubers called 9-1-1 to report that she killed Poston in his Highland Heights condominium. On the night of his murder, Poston had a date with Miss Ohio USA 2012 Audrey Bolte. The couple reportedly had a volatile relationship, and broke up several times over an 18-month period. She graduated cum laude and was pursuing a master's degree in school counseling. At the time they began dating, Hubers was a psychology student at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, approximately 80 miles from Highland Heights. Poston and Hubers began dating soon after. Hubers was friends with Poston's step-cousin, Carissa Carlisle.

In 2011, Poston, who was 28 years old at the time, met 20-year-old Shayna Hubers on Facebook. After completing his Juris Doctor degree, Poston began working as an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio. He later attended Indiana University, where he triple-majored in history, geography, and political science, then went to law school at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. Poston attended Blessed Sacrament School (Fort Mitchell), the International School Manila (Philippines), and the International School of Geneva (Switzerland) during high school. He had three younger sisters: Alison, Katherine, and Elizabeth Carter. Ryan Carter Poston was born on December 30, 1982, in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, to Lisa Carter and Jay Poston.

On Octoshe was sentenced to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 20 years.
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Hubers was convicted of murder during her second trial on August 28, 2018.

Hence, 85% of a 40-year sentence is 34 years, but due to the cap set by caselaw, Hubers would have been required to serve 20 years of her 40-year sentence before becoming parole eligible.) On August 25, 2016, Hubers’s conviction was overturned on appeal when one of the jurors in her murder trial was revealed to be a convicted felon. (Although a violent offender in Kentucky is required to serve a minimum of 85% of the total sentence before becoming eligible for release, case precedent mandates that a defendant sentenced to a number-of-years sentence under the violent offenders statute is capped at a maximum of 20 years to serve to become eligible for early release. She was sentenced to 40 years in the Kentucky Department of Corrections on August 14, 2015, with parole eligibility after 20 years. After a trial in the Campbell County circuit court, Hubers was convicted of murder on April 23, 2015. On October 12, 2012, Ryan Carter Poston, an American attorney from Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, was shot to death by his on-again off-again girlfriend Shayna Michelle Hubers.
