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Use called a fish and basically if you're a new booking and you've never been in jail before, it's like you can imagine when you take a fish out of water. they're just very disoriented, they're lost, they don't know what's going on. luckily they don't flop around. >> honestly, there's probably about $80 worth of pills in my car and it's not worth this. >> what are you thinking about? >> there's so much more than this. just to know that you're stuck somewhere and you have no clue what's going on. in a 10 foot by 10 foot room with no windows. not knowing if it's dark, light outside, it's nothing...

>> the cause of death was eventually ruled asphyxiation due to strangulation and fish was arrested. >> i've accepted the fact that a potential outcome of trial is a guilty verdict from the jury and also along with that verdict could be a death sentence. >> 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. ...

The last thing i remember doing is holding his hand for him and he -- and in the throes of his pain, gripped my hand. he was alive enough to feel the extreme amount of pain. but he wasn't able to scream or voice it, and then he got evacuated and died on the way to the hospital in germany. >> 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 s...

Requested a discharge and was denied. so he went awol. he was eventually caught and did time in a military jail. >> while i was in jail i had time to think and i said, this doesn't become me or my family to be sitting here in jail, i'm too afraid to go to iraq. i said my dad was in vietnam. i can do this, too. so i decided, i'm going to do it. and so that was my second chance. so they sent me to iraq. >> in iraq, fish was assigned to an air force base hospital where wounded soldiers arrived daily. >> the only thing i remember specifically is the first guy i treated, he's dead now. and he was a...

Hours earlier for the first time in his life, charged with intent to sell narcotics. he hoped his father would be able and willing to bail him out. >> it's $2500. 10% of $25,000 bail. thank you, dad. all right. yep. i love you. bye. he doesn't deserve a phone call from here. but it's all my fault that i'm here. it's no one's fault but myself. >> there's a term that people use called a fish and basically if you're a new booking and you've never been in jail before, it's like you can imagine when you take a fish out of water. they're just very disoriented, they're lost, they don't know what's go...