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Stand in a case against johnson & johnson. jean, what can we expect today? >> reporter: a number of victims and families will take the stand in this trial which is a case of first impression. this is the first opioid case to come to trial right here in oklahoma. its craig box. his son austin was a football player for the university of oklahoma. he was injured. he had to recuperate. what the plaintiffs, the state of oklahoma said yesterday is he began to take opioids so he wouldnt feel the pain, ...

Country. it is happening in a state ravaged by the opioid epidemic. our colleague correspondent jean can a sar ris is live in norman, oklahoma, with more. jean, set the scene. >> reporter: this is definitely precedent setting. this is the first case to actually come to trial and there are well over 1,500 cases that have been filed in this country from local state, even tribal nations, but this is the very first one. now, since it is a civil trial you can settle and actually two very large corpor...

Filed on a national level. poppy, jim? >> jean, stand by there and please stand by, our viewers, we have breaking news just into cnn. that is that the supreme court has agreed to take up a key case relating to abortion, our jessica schneider covering this case. tell us what were learning. >> jim and poppy, today the supreme court weighing in in part here on this abortion issue. so it comes down to two parts here, first of all, the supreme court is allowing part of an indiana abortion law to go...

Case is solved. >> but shortly after telling the police that jim had probably killed himself the phone rang again. it was greyhound bus lines in houston, texas. >> they found a bag that was left on the bus with jims name on it with a bottle of crown royal, his clothes and a gun in it. >> how long -- when did you hear from him? i got a phone call from my attorney saying theyd heard from jim and that jim was in a motel down in houston. the lawyer put jean in touch with jim and filled her in on his...

Together, jean and jim got married in las vegas. >> and i was asked by jean if i would walk her down the aisle. >> was she happy? >> oh, yeah. all smiles. both of them were all smiles. >> but the smiles did not last long. in june 2002, jim huden returned here to washington state for the funeral of an old friend. and it was here that fate intervened. a tall red-haired beauty caught jims eye. it was the beginning of a love triangle, one that would wreck the lives of a lot of people involved and so...

>> we came out to las vegas. the reason he asked me to go was to cover for him. >> he was seeing peggy. >> yes. >> tell me about jims relationship with peggy. >> it was all love and kisses. >> really. >> uh-huh. >> more so than with jean who was waiting for him back at home? >> yes. >> before long, other band members say they, too, began seeing the same changes in jim that troubled jean. heavy drinking and erratic behavior. >> he would go through a fifth of crown royal in a night, and one night ...

Would pay off. jim invited her out to las vegas for her 40th birthday. for several days he wined and dined her. but her dreams of a happy ending, she says, vanished when her husband turned to her in bed one night and told her he intended to make her darkest dreams come true. there was a man out in washington, he told her, who needed to die. >> not the kind of thing a wife wants to hear, but jean has an even bigger shock coming. coming up, i felt like i got kicked in the stomach. life as i knew...

Murd -- jayme remained in solution with her family. finally this month, she appeared before the wisconsin legislature, accepting the hometown hero award. >> her courage, her bravery and spirit are things that inspire us. and make us stronger and better. >> jaymes family says the sentencing hearing was very important for her, that she has come a long way since january, but there is a lot left to do. jean casarez, cnn, baron, wisconsin. >> thank you, jean. still ahead, an intense man hunt under ...

Capacity back in the bush 41 era in that department. if i didnt know the basic terminology, i would have been ridiculed for it. >> and here we are. all right. michael smerconish. thank you. and dont miss his show tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. up next, were live at a wisconsin courthouse where a judge is about to sentence the man on the left, the man who admitted to kidnapping jayme closs and killing her parents, and she just sent an emotional statement through her lawyer. st...

Homecoming dance. my brother wont be able to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. just -- sorry. and my parents, they raised us just to be good hardworking people, treat people fair, your honor. do the right thing. jim and stacey were doing the right thing. jim didnt get treated fair that morning. we ask you impose the maximum sentence. do the right thing. >> cnns jean casarez was inside that barron county courtroom and we actually heard from jayme through a lawyer, jean. what were her wo...