keith morrison (voiceover): after five years behind bars, rick tabish had been stripped of just about but the truth, so help you god? keith morrison (voiceover): so rick thought there was no better person than he to make his case to the jury. calling your attention to september 17th of 1998, did you have anything to do with the death of ted binion? absolutely and unequivocally not. i did not kill ted binion. i just started connecting with them. i was talking to those people. that's why i wanted to look in their eyes. keith morrison (voiceover): but maybe rick was a little overconfident in his ability to persuade a jury. remember, quite aside from the binion murder was his extortion conviction involving a former business partner. that conviction was never overturned. the prosecutor pounced. and we should believe you even though you've been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, correct? yes. and we should believe you, even though you've been convicted of false imprisonment with a deadly weapon? yes. judge, i have nothing else. thank you very much. rick had some problems because of