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globe. live from studio 7, this is "cnn saturday morning" with t.j. holmes. >> just got that breaking news from the nba. just a matter of hours ago. they were working overnight. we've got a live report on that coming your way literally in seconds. i do want to get you caught up on other morning headlines, including out of pakistan. where pakistan is saying nato helicopters opened fire killing 20 soldiers. this happened near the border with afghanistan. pakistan and military officials say another 12 soldiers injured in this attack. nato is saying they are aware of the incident but hav...

It happened earlier this month at an unguarded building using for training exercises. police believe they were low level burglars not expecting to find the huge gun stash. >> police in dallas, texas an unusual missing person case. they are searching for a ten-year-old girl. this little girl right here. she disappeared last night while visiting relatives. jasmine may have been sleep walking when they are away and they are concerned because the child was only wearing pajamas and temperatures get 39 degrees overnight. they are scouring the neighborhood. they are also using search dogs and helicop...

Sought a first-degree murder conviction, which seemed a bit risky, given reitz's sleep walking history, the parks case in toronto and the medical experts backing up his story. second degree murder, even manslaughter would be easier to prove. and might ensure a conviction. >> i would rather try the case and lose it, let them present their defense, as skeptical as i am, and we don't prove it and the defendant walks. so be it. >> without some sort of motive, though, persuading a jury that reitz was fully conscious and in control might be difficult. so could anything else besides sleepwalking have...

D.a. dinko bozanich. who, remember, specialized in cases involving mental defenses. >> how many times do you hear about anybody really committing a crime while they're sleep walking, except for the ones that have been caught and then raised that as a defense instead of something else. >> well, it turned out there was one particular case, here in toronto, canada. it was more than two decades ago. it, too, was a violent crime, involved a man who had no apparent motive and who later on had absolutely no recollection of what he had done, just like stephen reitz. this killer's name was kenneth park...

Steven reitz's gruesome confession regarding the cause of death, the deep slash to the spinal cord. >> i attended the autopsy. that's not standard protocol for a prosecutor. i attended it because i've never seen a case like this. >> deputy d.a. chris frisco was initially assigned to look into the case. he had never encountered such an alibi. >> what i was concerned about was looking at the injuries and trying to determine if, in fact, the defendant is -- or was sleep walking -- >> frisco studied the detectives' report. it appeared that eva's murder was now both a legal and medical issue. for a...