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Telling the truth. >> had she been pressured? besides, said the defense, there was no dna, no footprints, no fingerprints to prove diamond shot marty fear. and anyway, diamond was a trained sharp shooter but the shots that failed marty were sloppy. must have been the work of an amateur side diamonds attorney. an amateur like michelle. >> michelle fear had asked for the gun several days before the murder. she had told him that her husband had been abusive, that she was afraid of him. so he gets a...

>> so he goes to the article 32 hearing which is like the grand jury. they immediately find cause and they charge him. >> and nine months after the murder, in a small fort bragg courtroom diamond went on trial before a military jury. >> diamond was very, very cocky at the beginning. he would laugh and joke with reporters in there. he was just so sure that he was going to be acquitted. >> but john diamond wasnt the star of his own trial. michelle was. she was free as a bird then, though still und...

>> but john diamond was devastated or so said michelle. >> he said specifically im going to kill myself, i cant live without you, you cant do this to me. im going to go drive my car off a bridge. >> it was awful, said michelle. diamond kept calling, made a scene at her office in front of some students she taught. even threatened to call marty and tell him everything. >> so nearly a week after that romantic night in raleigh, michelle says she met john at a local restaurant to end the affair. gent...

Took the 5th. the prosecutions case against diamond, its accusation was simple. driven by his obsession for michelle he conspired with her to kill her husband by borrowing the gun, arranging to be in a position in that dark parking lot, waiting in the marty fear had placed himself in the kill zone at the top of the staircase outside michelles office and fired the five shots that killed him. >> as for diamonds alibi that he was home with his wife watching a movie, that now ex-wife came to court a...