In a video-taped testimony, former Fresno State basketball star and convicted murderer Terry Pettis told the court he used marijuana continuously during his 19-month career as a Bulldog.

Pettis was convicted of murder in May 2006. He is accused of killing Rene Shannon Abbot in April 2004 during a drug deal. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and is awaiting appeal.

Jurors watched as the former basketball standout spoke of his student athlete experience at Fresno State. He was wearing a orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs.

He said he first tested positive for marijuana in Oct. 2002; he was offered drug counseling shortly thereafter. In his freshman year alone, Pettis says he tested positive seven out of nine times.

"We were winning and nothing else mattered," Pettis said from Wasco State Prison in an Aug. 2006 deposition.

Subsequently, he tested positive repeatedly yet never missed playing in a Bulldog basketball game until he was finally dismissed from the team in Feb. 2004.

Pettis said nearly half the team smoked marijuana in the 2002-03 season. He said coaches warned players ahead of time that they would be tested even though the tests should have been random and unannounced. Pettis said players regularly switched their urine samples to get clearance.

“The way we were smoking it, it would have stayed in our systems for a long time,” Pettis said.

Attorneys for Johnson-Klein used the Pettis testimony to illustrate that a double standard existed within the athletic department.

Former women’s basketball player Amy Parrish took the stand Wednesday afternoon. Her testimony appeared to help the defense at one point.

Parrish said she was relieved when Johnson-Klein as suspended and Adrian Wiggins became the interim women’s basketball head coach.

"There was too much emotion. There were too many ups and downs which caused too much stress. Basketball was fun before that. In college it shouldn't be something you dread," Parrish testified.

Johnson-Klein’s attorneys contradicted Parrish’s testimony during re-cross examination. They claim Parrish had said Johnson-Klein was a good coach, a good role model and that she had made these comments as late as Nov. 2004, Johnson-Klein’s last season at Fresno State University.

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