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The man convicted of killing a Little Rock real estate agent won't be permitted to call any witnesses but himself in next week's trial over whether he was assaulted by state prison guards in 2016, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Very beginning that we would need to flip crystal, and it would be important for the case for her to testify. >> he made a deal with crystal. she agreed to testify against her husband and plead guilty plea to murder and kidnapping -- in exchange for a reduced sentence of 30 years. >> it's good for the jury to be able to hear, you know, the the backstory of what went on and the why of what went on. >> aaron lewis went on trial. the prosecution's star witness, crystal lowery, took the stand and told the jury all the grisly details. she claimed it was all about money, not sex. >> she said he came...
I said, well, was she alive?" and -- and, "no, i'm sorry. but she wasn't." >> we had worked so hard, i mean to find her. i mean, we just really tried to do right and it wasn't -- it wasn't enough. >> i know she pleaded. i know she pleaded for her life and to be sent -- come back to us. and for her grandbabies. and i just have to know that god was there to -- comforting her. >> aaron lewis was charged with murder and kidnapping. and his wife crystal lowery charged as his accomplice. they pleaded not guilty, but his words to reporter shannon miller outside the sheriff's office didn't sound like ...
Just say?" >> two weeks later, shannon interviewed lewis in jail and he told a vastly different story than the one he'd told detectives. >> was he willing to cop to anything? >> no. >> i didn't kill her, i didn't murder her, and anything that did occur was an accident. >> then he tried to say beverly played a role in her own death. he implied she willingly met him at the house for a sexual hook-up that went wrong. >> it didn't have nothing to do with her showing the home. just a place to meet. >> in your opinion, how farfetched was this new story about the sexual encounter? >> well, it was 100...
And you're going, "what did he just say?" >> reporter: two weeks later, shannon interviewed lewis in jail and he told a vastly different story than the one he'd told detectives. >> was he willing to cop to anything? >> no. >> i didn't kill her, i didn't murder her and anything that did occur was an accident. >> reporter: then he tried to say beverly played a role in her own death. he implied she willingly met him at the house for a sexual hook-up that went wrong. >> it's didn't have nothing to do with her showing the home. just a place to meet. >> in your opinion, how farfetched was this new s...