Associated Press - September 11, 2009 11:44 AM ET

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A deputy coroner has testified in the case of a former Kentucky football coach being tried on a reckless homicide charge that he found nothing amiss in the death of a player.

But Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Sam Weakley said Friday that he could change his finding that 15-year-old Max Gilpin's death was accidental depending upon the outcome of the trial.

Former Pleasure Ridge Park High School coach David Jason Stinson is also charged with wanton endangerment stemming from the Aug. 20, 2008, collapse of Gilpin at the end of a practice. Gilpin died three days later at a Louisville hospital.

Prosecutors said Stinson ran a brutal practice the day Gilpin collapsed. Stinson's defense says the practice wasn't unusually hard.

Stinson's trial is a rare case of a coach being prosecuted for a player's death.

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