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She interjected. she goes, "i knew it was going to happen. i just didn't know when." keith morrison: that night, they put juliette-- who was living with christopher-- into protective custody. the next day, i prepared an arrest warrant for christopher sutton. keith morrison: and a female officer paid a visit to christopher's father, home alone. she says, "well, i've got good news and bad news. and the good news is that we have arrested the assailant. he's admitted it. the bad news is, he's inculpated your son and said your son set him up." i go, "man, oh man." well, that was a bad night, a real...

Were there? >> yeah, he could squeeze your hand but he couldn't speak. >> how did you feel when you saw your father at the ryder trauma center? >> shocked, hurt, worried, scared. >> not that christopher was claiming to be a perfect son. in fact, he told the jury he was a drug dealer. garrett kopp was one of his best customers but had good reason to turn on him. why? because years earlier, christopher said, he turned police informant to get drug charges dropped and who did he finger, garrett kopp? what happened, if anything, with your relationship with garrett kopp after he was arrested? >> i d...

Son was born the exact same date as christopher sutton. so at this time, as to count one, mr. sutton, the court poses a sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parol. >> that was that. barring a successful appeal, christopher sutton will die in prison. a result he found so shocking. he decided he needed to explain that they got it so very wrong. >> the verdict did seem to be a big surprise. >> yeah, i definitely wasn't expecting to be found guilty. i mean, i was shocked. to know you didn't do something but yet to have people feel you did. >> the words fairly gust from their mout...

Maintain my innocence. >> show me how it looks like a lion. >> john sutton still remembers the suit he wore when he brought christopher home from the hospital. and now it's come to this. >> what about christopher? do you still think of him as your son? >> i guess technically he is, but some day i may go see him and confront him. say, what were you thinking of? what a stupid, criminal, ridiculous crazy thing all this was. >> reconciling if it ever comes is a long, long way. >> that ain't happening, no way. no way. >> it's complicated, says melissa. ridiculously difficult. but what choice does s...

>> it doesn't make any sense to get on the witness stand and cry in front of the jury. it can cause a mistrial. so i dealt with it. i did what i had to do. >> so he did. but was he right about his son? did the state really have the puzzle solved? or had its key witness been forced to lie? coming up, now it was the defense's turn, and christopher's old girlfriend, one of the prosecution's star witnesses against him, had a new story to tell about how she was threatened by police. >> they told knee if they didn't hear what they wanted to hear, that they were going to arrest me instead. they threw...