CHARLOTTE N.C. (Court TV)— Amber Turner, the ex-girlfriend who offered arguably the most damaging testimony against Rae Carruth, had an inexplicable change of heart about the ex-football player.

In several e-mails over several months to a Charlotte Observer reporter, Turner paints two vastly different portraits of the former Carolina Panther accused of plotting the murder of a woman carrying his baby.

But if the jury hears about the controversial e-mails, it won't be from the reporter, Judge Charles Lamm ruled.

Though the defense subpoenaed the reporter, Leigh Dyer, to testify, Lamm ruled in favor of the newspaper, which opposed Dyer taking the stand under the state's journalist shield law.

Although Dyer did not testify, Rudolf has the option of calling Turner back to the stand. The defense attorney claims that he did not know about the quotes until after Turner flew home to Colorado, because prosecutors don't have to warn the defense about rebuttal witnesses.

According to a story that appeared in Saturday's Charlotte Observer, Turner apparently e-mailed Dyer several times about Carruth — but told vastly different stories each time.

"Rae is not capable of shooting anybody," she is quoted in a January 23 Observer article. "I've never even heard him raise his voice."

That account differs from her testimony on Friday, when she testified that during her year-long relationship with Carruth, the former Carolina Panther threatened to kill her if she didn't abort his baby. Carruth is accused of killing Cherica Adams, a woman he dated long after his break-up with Turner, who also became pregnant by him. But unlike Turner, who went ahead with the abortion, Adams was choosing to keep the baby. Prosecutors charge that Carruth masterminded Adams' murder to avoid child support payments.

But long before she took the stand on Friday, Turner seemed to have an inexplicable change of heart.

In a March 29 e-mail to Dyer, Turner wrote: "I've had a chance to speak to quite a few people and have come to realize that Rae isn't exactly who I thought he was," the newspaper reported.

After a story that ran the same day about court documents that outlined the state's case, Turner sent another e-mail: "If you want my opinion, I think the article in (the) Wed. paper sounds just like something Rae would get caught up in," the Observer reported.

When asked if she had changed her opinion about whether Carruth was guilty, the article continues, Turner answered, "For the most part, I do. It has put together some things that I hadn't quite dwelled over before, but now looking back, I'm not surprised one bit that this happened!"

When Carruth was arrested shortly after the Nov. 16, 1999, drive-by shooting, Turner flew to Charlotte to be by Carruth's side. She admitted on the stand that she cut her visit short because she felt Carruth was ignoring her and left shortly after she overheard Carruth having sex with another woman.

Another ex-girlfriend of Carruth, Dawnyle Willard, testified Monday that she believed Amber Turner was a woman scorned.

With no more potential witnesses lined up for Monday besides Dyer, court was recessed until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when the defense will continue its surrebuttal case.