attorney bruce fleisher chipped away at each state witness, starting with tony's housemate.efense said he had 250,000 reasons to make his story up. >> there was a reward offered -- >> yes. >> who offered that reward? >> scott rothstein. >> how much was the reward in the case? >> $251,000. >> ironically, he never got the reward. the collapse of rothstein's ponzi scheme put an end to that. and as for the prosecution's theory of motive, fleischer argued it was as thin as it was nonsensical. >> you would think that if you were so enraged that your wife were doing this that you would want to harm her and not someone else. >> as for debra villegas, defense attorney fleischer surprised everyone when he didn't ask her a single question. but he did go after the son, caleb, challenging him as to why he sat for so long on this story about his father badmouthing melissa. >> you didn't tell your mother about that when you first heard about that, did you? >> no. i didn't see any relevance. >> and when you spent time with him, things were good? >> yes. >> okay. you love your dad? >> yes. >

a special sort of skill to defend a man facing a charge of first-degree murder, and in miami bruce fleisher has honed the skill as well as anyone, but what he could see right away, knew it long before of the trial, was that the scene in that courtroom was about as bad as it could be because there they were, just feet apart. his client and a klein father, a survivor of christopher sutton's alleged plot to kill his parents. >> the fact that john sutton survived to me was the greatest prejudice in the case. >> and there he was right behind the bar the whole time. >> the jury would hear something bad and they would look over at john sutton. they had to be thinking, this poor man. look what he has to go through life with. >> for the victim, fleisher knew, he must display only sympathy. so instead, he would attack the murder investigation itself, the way the police police came up their two star witnesses, juliet driscoll and garrett kopp. after all, without them the state's case was weak, and why do you suppose they fame forward anyway? because they were forced to, or sore reasoned fleisher. juli