Christian Scott Iverson placed a 911 call on a February night in 2007.

“I just killed my wife. I just shot her,” he said to the dispatcher, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

When state troopers arrived at the Iversons’ home, they found Patricia Iverson’s body slumped against a bed with a gunshot wound to her neck and two rifles on the bed, the Associated Press reported.

Iverson pled guilty to third-degree murder in the death of Patricia Iverson, 44, in December 2007 and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years – the maximum sentence permitted – the following February.

What has been a long, winding legal road – including appeals to the state Superior and Supreme Courts as well as case in federal court – turned back to the Warren County Courthouse on Tuesday as he sought relief from the court.

While Senior Judge William Morgan tossed the petition at the conclusion of the hearing, the hearing wasn’t without some fireworks.

The first witness?

Former Warren County District Attorney Ross McKiernan who prosecuted the case.

At issue were a couple documents that indicate that McKiernan provided discovery documents to Iverson’s first attorney, who passed away before the case was resolved. At issue was the fact that the documents in the deceased attorneys file were “retrieved” by McKiernan and forwarded to Iverson’s new counsel.

Iverson’s attorney, Leanne Ruth Nedza, attempted to question McKiernan, asking him if he was the DA.

“That’s what they tell me,” McKiernan said, indicating he couldn’t recall what years and acknowledging that he “remembers part of it.”

She asked if he was an attorney and he said “I’m not an attorney,” later commenting “are you dead? I’m retired…. Do what you have to do. (I’m) not telling you how to run your case.”

He told Nedza, though, that he remembered “every single thing” abut the Iverson case and said he never entered the deceased attorney’s office, across the street from the courthouse, “that I recall” while also saying he went to the office many times but was “not rummaging” through files.

He took exception to counsel’s suggestion that “someone went in and scratched something out of that office,” noting Nedza “keeps saying it like a fact.”

Nedza argued that Iverson believed there should have been a second recorded 911 call but McKiernan said there was one as well as a call between Iverson and a Pennsylvania State Police trooper that occurred in an attempt “to keep him occupied” and isn’t sure if it was recorded.

Some of the other attorneys who have represented Iverson briefly took the stand before Iverson himself testified.

He said that the documents in question came from prior counsel.

After Iverson admitted to having the documents in 2012 – and the post-conviction relief act petition not being filed until October 2015 – Nedza asked why it took so long for Iverson to take action.

Iverson said he always waited until he heard from one court before proceeding to the “next step.” He said that he filed this petition after his federal court case was denied.

While timeliness issues were raised as a reason to deny the petition, Nedza called McKiernan’s testimony “very evasive” and criticized his prior counsel.

Calling it a “breakdown” in the system, Nedza argued that her “client trusts his attorney to do what she’s supposed to do… she didn’t.”

In denying the petition, Morgan concluded that there was no government interference or new evidence presented, noting that “anything his attorney (has) done would not be official interference.”