word. >> without noel stevens's statement to the police, george is an innocent man. >> and how could the jury believe stevens, said the defense, when even his own friend, the tipster big will said -- in court -- that the man was an habitual liar. >> honesty, i would put him at a scale of one through ten, i would put him at, a scale of maybe one and a half. >> ten being very honest and zero being -- >> one and a half, meaning not honest at all. that's correct. >> george's attorney was itching to cross examine the habitual liar who'd condemned his client. which presented the prosecutors with a dilemma. the man at the center of their case against george might just destroy it. >> he could be a real problem. >> he could be a real problem. and there was a substantial amount of discussion between pam and i over whether or not we're calling him or not. >> does that imply that you disagreed? >> oh, yes, we disagreed. >> coming up, a risky decision looks like it might just backfire. >> do you hear voices? >> yes. >> i think everybody agreed that noel stevens was as crazy as a rat. >> why is it

george helping a man in need, as usual. >> he thought he was helping out noel stevens to live out where noel wanted to live, which was outside of town. >> as for the 87 phone calls that the prosecution said proved george and greyhound had conspired to kill shauna. nothing sinister there, said the defense, just a man trying to contact his charity case handyman. >> i live out in that area. and cell service is notoriously bad. on top of -- have you ever tried to call a handyman in this town? it is ridiculously difficult to get hold of those kinds of workers to come do work. >> in fact, said the defense, the only thing the state had tying george to the murder was noel stevens's word. statement to the police, george is an innocent man. >> and how could the jury believe stevens, said the defense, when even his own friend, the tipster big will said -- in court -- that the man was an habitual liar. >> honesty, i would put him at a scale of one through ten, i would put him at, a scale of maybe one and a half. >> ten being very honest and zero being -- >> one and a half, meaning not honest at all