i like nicolas sparks. "the note wook." >> oh, so like romantics? >> oh, yeah, i'm a sucker for that. >> even cry when you read the sad part? >> yeah. most of the guys don't want to admit that because, hey, we're in jail. you know. but i don't care. >> but miramontes was facing the possibility of a lifetime in prison. >> been almost two years. my charges are special circumstances murder. >> miramontes had entered a not guilty plea and was still awaiting trial when we met him. the night of the murder, he says he was visiting friends in an orange county gang and that they were all drinking and high on drugs. while driving around their neighborhood, his friend stopped to confront a 19-year-old man who had allegedly flashed a rival gang sign. >> what ended up happening was the orange county home boys exsithed the vehicle, and a fight ensued which turned into a stabbing, which turned into a slashing, and the victim's neck was cut, and he bled to death at the scene. >> miramontes admits to being in the car but says he never participated in the murder. >>

french president nicolas sarkozy says it is back to the drawing board after judges throughout the controversial bill that sparked war of words with turkey. >> the legislation needed -- made it illegal to deny the turkey perpetrated genocide against armenians during the first world war. >> it might not be over yet. sarkozy says he wants his government to redraft the law, taking the court's concerns into account. >> in turkey, the french constitutional council decision was closely followed. the law and denying the army and genocide was the subject of much concern. it was right to overturn this decision, this man says. many historians say that more than a million armenians were killed in the first world war by turkish forces. turkey disputes the number of deaths and says there were victims on both sides. but many outside observers say the killings, which took place between 1915 and 1917, qualify as state sanctioned mass murder. the french law made it a crime to deny that the killings constituted genocide. this caused outrage in turkey. french president nicolas sarkozy was ridiculed in turkish newspapers. the turkis