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the scariest thing that you will ever go through. my whole world crumbled. >> cara was the kind of teacher students just love. >> she was a rock star at her school. >> with the same man for 20 years, enjoying life together by the beach. >> the balcony was like our second living room, you can hear the waves on the shore. >> but she was all alone that night when, according to her, an intruder burst into her bedroom. >> i was scared to death. i didn't have any other choice. >> you shot him? >> i shot him. >> she said the man attacked her. >> he told me he was going to kill me. >> she'd ...

Futerman. and? >> i was dead wrong. >> reporter: here's what the mock jurors told futerman. while some women gave the answer he expected. >> i found her not guilty, she was already in fear for her life. >> reporter: most found her guilty as sin. >> i don't believe for one second that she was raped. >> reporter: as for the men, the result was practically reversed. >> the facts of the case are that someone broke into the home, and they were afraid and they shot him. >> reporter: was futerman and his co-counsel surprised? you bet they were. time to rethink strategy for the real trial. >> every ca...

>> cara was a school teacher, remember. and one day, she said, she got a nasty letter from the florida department of education. >> the state was going to pull my teaching certificate, because he hadn't paid my student loans. >> he paid the bills in the early days of their marriage, she said. >> so, i started looking at the accounts, thinking, what's going on here? i don't understand. >> what was going on, cara said, was they were broke. >> i felt really betrayed and lied to and hurt. >> so, she said, she laid down the law. took over the financial stuff. and told j.j. he had to get help for his...

Him. and we went to marriage counseling. that helped. >> cara told detectives that for five years j.j. didn't gamble at all and they were happy. but -- >> you know, i always worried that the gambling would come back up and financial situations would happen again. >> and then in 2004, j.j. had that that bad crash in his police car. >> when we got there very shortly thereafter, he had an actually, like, a hole in the top of his head. >> bob jones is a former st. petersburg police officer and j.j.'s good friend. >> his knees and feet and everything else got hung up around the steering wheel. then...

Depression, gambling, drinking, painkillers. a man so out of control he raped her underage before she shot him. >> and then he came back through the door. i thought he was going to kill me. >> was it true? >> never in his life. never in his life. >> lonnie lancto had known cara and j.j. for years, before she and j.j. fell in love. did she have a reasonable argument that maybe she thought she was defending her life? >> not at all. he wasn't a violent person. she has -- she has no other defense but to tell you that. >> private lives, as we all know, can hide cesspools of stories best left untold...