they could prove up the facts very clearly for first degree murder. >> they called to the stand kevin bluhmsin did." we knew going into this that because kevin had his own case going at the time that he was not gonna testify in, in fear of incriminating himself, and so he took the fifth. >> kevin bluhm had an alibi for the bletsch murder and was never charged in connection with that crime in any way. >> he was a non-player in this, he wasn't a person who was going to impact the outcome for my client one way or the other. >> when willis appears in court, he looks like a different man than the one who sat in the interrogation room a year earlier. >> he looks different. he'd lost a lot of weight. now he was trimmed and fit. >> you may call your next witness mr. johnson. >> your honor, we call jeffrey willis to the stand. >> in the bletsch case, we put my client on the stand. >> the defendant almost never takes the witness stand in a criminal 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 mu