johnson. >> your honor, we call jeffrey willis to the stand. >> in the bletsch case, we put my client case. to see jeff willis get up on the witness stand and try and talk his way out of a conviction is pretty astounding. >> the penalty for first-degree murder in this state is you spend the rest of your life in prison with no possibility of getting out. >> please have a seat and state your name for the record. >> jeffrey thomas willis. >> when you have that much on the line, ultimately you leave that call to him. >> mr. willis, you are charged with, in this case, of killing ms. bletsch. did you in fact do that? >> i did not. i did not kill ms. bletsch. i wasn't even there. i was home. >> do you have any other recollections about that day in general? >> well, i cut the grass that day, between 4:00 and i want to say 6:30, i was cutting the grass. >> the problem with it is once you take the stand, you got to answer questions too. and if you have a highly skilled prosecutor, as they did, he's going to have some questions that you may not want to have asked. >> and there's nobody else that