Eric sent a text message stating: “If he comes up here to the apartment, I will shank him. Dead a**.” Minutes later the young man appeared at the apartment and Eric stabbed him to death with a knife. Eric promptly confessed to the crime, offering only the explanation, “I warned him.” On cross-examination we flipped a critical prosecution witness to agree with our version of events and the prosecution could see the case slipping away. They agreed to dismiss the murder charges.