get on the ground now! get on the ground now! get down! 23, get down. with his wild west reputation, we didn t expect to meet two young people at maricopa who not much earlier were considered role models as opposed to felons. no matter where we are you need to be serving god. right now we re all sitting in jail. i m a very devout christian. i ve gotten back to my walk with god. i was working in my church and everything before coming here. it s not jailhouse conversion or whatever. i just followed a friend and shouldn t have done that and helped him do something that i shouldn t have done. and it s going to cost me several years of my life. during our extended stay series at maricopa we told the story of 20-year-old john antonucci, awaiting sentencing for manslaughter and arson. prior to his arrest, he was a popular black belt karate instructor for a company that taught sports to children. one of his co-instructors is now
come what may. flowers, flowers you know which ones, the ones that grow tall from mesa to the queen creek, from a.j. to the east, i will cry your name and then repeat, i love you, i love you, i love you, i ve got to make you see what you mean to me, michelle my belle. that s what s up. is that cool? wait. let me get you something. thanks, buddy. thank you. what do you think, boo? it s good. are you impressed? yeah, i m really impressed. i should have gave him three pretzels. while boo s girlfriend will soon receive an expression of love from him, john antonucci has been on the receiving end of some very different sentiments. he s just returned from a presentencing hearing in court and the judge who will render the final sentence in a few days has just read several letters
of lies and when i stand in that courtroom and i tell him i m sorry, i doubt he ll believe a word i say. the newspaper that published the article on antonucci is the same one joe watson used to write for on the outside. and now, ironically, after a routine cell reassignment, the jail has made watson and antonucci cellmates. the object is to try and get them to stay in the sink, which is extremely difficult because they do that. the new cellies have helped each other battle boredom by finding another use for dominos. four days is i would have had to do a minimum of ten push-ups for every one i couldn t getn the sink, i would have to do an additional ten. john i think has lived a fairly sheltered life, so it s hard for us to connect as far as popular culture.
while prosecutors say antonucci was the ringleader, his co-defendants still respect him. you re going to get through this, jon. it s gonna be just a blur. it s not forever. it s going to be okay. i pray for you. in a way, john is still a good friend of mine. really upbeat and energetic guy, really nice, really religious, too. now you just gotta worry about making it through, okay? god will get us through. it s not about me. i know. but i don t like seeing you like this. he s a good guy. he s very he s very driven, you know. he likes to achieve stuff, you know, he likes to go out there and make a difference. i just really do hope they see that when it comes to sentencing. as co-defendants, maria and otto are allowed to attend
sorry, i doubt he ll believe a word i say. the newspaper that published the article on antonucci is the same one joe watson used to write for on the outside. and now, ironically, after a routine cell reassignment, the jail has made watson and antonucci cellmates. the object is to try and get them to stay in the sink, which is extremely difficult because they do that. the new cellies have helped each other battle boredom by finding another use for dominos. four days is i would have had to do a minimum of ten push-ups for every one i couldn t get in the sink, i would have to do an additional ten. john i think has lived a fairly sheltered life, so it s hard for us to connect as far as popular culture. i think he told me he saw his first film when he was like 15, 16, something like that. you know, i ve asked him if he s