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the coal miner's daughter christy martin christy martin was a public figure a sports star a pioneer
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she put boxing on the map for females she was on the cover of sports illustrated
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she made millions of dollars boxing chrissy was married to jim martin jim was a boxing trainer and jim
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trained her we'll take her out there for years it was christy and jim as a team together
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i think that the marriage between jim and christy was professionally driven where at first
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they used each other to both get ahead case number 2010 say the fourth versus james b
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martin this is one of the most memorable cases i had in approximately 5 000 that i handled as a prosecutor
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it has a little bit of everything you have drugs there's a sex tape this is one of the
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most fascinating cases i've ever been a part of what did you want the jury to know about
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this marriage that jim martin wasn't a loving caring husband jim's control led to psychological abuse
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physical abuse he started to provide her with controlled substances and would put christie in a very
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compromised position to where she had to rely on jim or else her career would be over christy
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had told him that she wanted out of the relationship how did jim take the news that
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christy wanted out like his world was collapsing how did he take the news that she was
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seeing someone else horribly but i don't think anybody truly believes that the person that you've built a life
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with would all of a sudden turn and want you dead inside the couple's orange county
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home james martin stabbed his wife with a buck knife four times in the chest and
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back he then ultimately gets a firearm he stands over her and shoots her in the chest
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so jim pleads not guilty what's your reaction expected she's the one that had the gun
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jim was just trying to defend himself and they fought over the gun [Music] there is not convincing evidence in this
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case beyond a reasonable doubt that mr martin intended to kill christy the way jim described it christy was
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hooked on drugs and she was extremely aggressive he was constantly afraid of physical
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attacks by her jury's entering all rise it's not every day that the target of a murder
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ends up living to tell their story on the stand it's rare at this time the state of florida calls
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christy martin christie was the boxer jim was the opponent the jury was the audience and the judge
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was the referee and christy had always talked about she wanted to win 50 fights in her life well
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christy won 49 professional boxing matches in her career that courtroom was the 50th fight
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he's taking my head and he's beating it into where the drawers are and i said you cannot kill me i told him
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you cannot kill me and i meant it just like the sun came up this morning i meant it
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christy martin [Applause]