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>> bring in the jury, please. >> christopher sutton stood stone faced as jurors filed in. >> were those tears from some members of the jury? >> ladies and gentlemen, i understand you have reached a verdict? >> judge stanford blake read the verdict. >> state of florida versus christopher sutton, we the jury of miami dade florida this 21st day of july, 2010, find the defendant christopher patrick sutton as to count one, guilty of first degree murder as charged in the indictment. >> guilty. with that christopher's head snapped back as if he had been struck. >> count three, guilty of attempted fir...

This is a bad case. we are now -- we are now at five years, 11 months. i lost susan. i lost christopher long before that. >> christopher did not look at his father. had he done so, he would not have seen tears. the bullets that tore into his head left john sutton unable to cry. >> i lost my eyesight. >> how was it in that courtroom? >> here is the judge -- >> it's ironic for me that my

>> say is a said, look, susan real cared about you. she basically thought of you as a daughter. this woman didn't deserve to die like this. john doesn't certainly, you know, deserve to be blind the rest of his life and i know for a fact that garrett did this under the direction of christopher. finally she started crying and i go i think i might have her. >> with the tears came a story, what christopher had said to her that just might nail her for murder. >> parents deserved to die for taking years out of his life. she said that this went on for years. she interjected and said i knew it was goi...

Explain the shooting of john sutton and the murder of his wife susan which was that christopher sutton hired his dope-smoking buddy garrett kopp to kill his parents but it was really just a theory and while the case against kopp was really strong, the murder weapon was found in his possession, the evidence against christopher was a little more than circumstantial, a little more than guilt by association. he might have had an association but -- >> i needed more than that to get the arrest. we were going to neat a confession, i believe. >> and given what they had against kopp detectives gambled ...

there's a feature in florida law, which says that the things a person says in a confession about somebody else could be labeled as hearsay. they needed more. so they turned to the person closest to christopher, his fiancee, juliet driscoll. the two were to be married in two weeks. >> she sat there and said i don't know, christopher doesn't tell me. >> didn't tell her anything? or so she said. >> that was my reaction. and i didn't buy it. >> guess not, because he went on grilling this young woman for more than 12 hours, at the end of which, the detective played to her heart, her relat...