duncsak was being killed in new jersey. to verify the amended day, a man who lived in the same neighborhood as ates' mother and sister took the stand. his name was matlock, and he remembered seeing ed ates and his car on a louisiana block on wednesday. >> did you see his beige honda that week? >> i did. >> what day? >> on wednesday. >> he said 17 times i am certain it was wednesday. this man had no reason to lie. he is intelligent. awake. sitting right there staring at the house. >> the lawyer was trying to show that ed ates could not have been killing paul duncsak in new jersey and been in louisiana on the same day at virtually the same hour, physically impossible. and he was about to show why he thought the prosecution's theory was also straining reality. >> his abdomen was obviously obese at that time. >> in a novel defense that made