josh mankiewicz (voiceover): detective sean pate worried shannon crawley could walk.scene. there was no murder weapon. and she hardly looked like a killer. i thought she might be able to sell the story. i figured she'd be dressed real conservative, probably come in looking like she just landed off the mayflower, and that somebody would be sympathetic. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): from the beginning, the prosecution portrayed shannon as a woman scorned, who couldn't have jermeir stroud to herself, so she made sure denita smith wouldn't either. shannon suggested prosecutor saacks was either carrying a torch for jermeir or trying to burn down his whole world by killing his fiancée and pinning it on him. for whatever reason, she couldn't handle the situation between jermeir and denita. and to resort to this just, to me, speaks of desperation. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): the prosecution's star witness-- jermeir stroud, whose courtroom testimony was broadcast on local tv. jermeir confessing under oath the shameful sin he'd kept hidden for so long-- his office affair with s