Lawyers for a Florida woman accused of trying to have her husband killed in a case made famous on the "Cops" TV show have called a man described as her former lover as a defense witness.
Mohammed Shihadeh is also the undercover informant who first told police that Dalia Dippolito told him she wanted someone to kill her convicted con-man husband, Michael Dippolito.
But Shihadeh has testified he wanted police to help her, not build a case against her. That's because he says she told him her husband was abusing her, and her only way out was to die or have him killed.
Shihadeh says detectives pressured him to put her in touch with an officer posing as a hit-man, and that he didn't believe she would go through with it.
But under cross-examination, Shihadeh agreed that his belief was wrong.
