. >> the defendant's initial attorney, jerry blank, was ruled not to be able to represent him becausef some technical issues. the court of appeals said that that denied mr. genzler the right to the counsel of his choice and reversed it on that ground. >> in preparing for the second trial, genzler's new defense team found something in dusty harless' background that made genzler's claim of self-defense more believable. numerous witnesses came forward to say dusty harless had a reputation for starting fights. >> they brought people in that said my son was a street brawler. i don't know how they found them, but they did find some people that weren't really a dusty fan. >> in addition, toxicology tests showed dusty was legally intoxicated at the time of his death with a 0.12 blood alcohol level. there were also traces of marijuana in his system. and the defense team discovered that sky flanders originally gave police a completely different version of events from what she testified to at trial. >> at one point dusty had him on the ground? >> yeah. i think that's when he stabbed him because