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>> after his tour ended, fish returned to the united states. during a random military drug test, he came up positive for marijuana and was released with an "other than honorable" discharge. soon after, fish says he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> they put me on medications for it. you start smelling things that you used to smell over there and you start kind of seeing things and you hear an alarm or something and it will trigger something in your mind that puts you into a panic mode like you were over there. >> after his discharge, fish moved back home and got a job at a veter...
With doctors so they told me i'd be doing that. the reality was, i was not a health care specialist but a pretty name for combat medic. >> one of the challenges is always getting the inmates to share some very intimate details of their lives, and sometimes their crimes. i think in clark's case, the fact that i was a veteran and the fact that he was a veteran really created a bond between us, and he felt comfortable talking to me. >> fish went on to discuss the fear he felt when he was deployed to iraq not long after joining the army. >> i didn't want to go because i didn't want to die. i was t...
>> fish stood trial several weeks after we left maricopa. >> you know, when you meet clark, he's a very likeable guy. he's intelligent, he's affable. everybody likes clark. so you want to believe his version. you want to believe his narrative. but in the end, a jury of 12, reasonable people found that he was guilty of murdering his girlfriend. >> several months after our shoot at maricopa, fish received his sentence. though he was eligible for the death penalty, he was given life without the possibility of parole. and has made the permanent move from the maricopa county jail to the arizona sta...