By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The judge in the honeymoon drowning death trial abruptly dismissed the case on Thursday, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive details on what his ground-breaking decision means for the future of former murder suspect Gabe Watson.

After being embroiled in court trials for the past eight years both in the U.S. and Australia for the October 2003 death of Tina Thomas Watson, 26, and serving 18 months in prison in Queensland, 34-year-old Gabe is now a free man.

He will not be retried for this crime, that is it - it’s over,” Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Dana Cole told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview on Friday. “Once the case is dismissed, double jeopardy applies and any retrial is barred.”

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Judge Jimmy Nail ruled that prosecutors failed to present enough evidence of a crime to send the case to jurors, and ended the two week trial by dismissing the case personally.

“The only way to convict him of intentional murder is to speculate. Nobody knows exactly what happened in the water. I'm sure we'll never know,” he told the court.

Cole went on to explain how events in the Birmingham, Alabama courtroom came about. “After the prosecution presents its case, the judge has a right to intervene and determine whether enough evidence was presented to allow the case to go to jury,” he told Breaking Celebrity News.

“He thought it was insufficient to proceed so he was able to use his discretion to dismiss the case. Which is the same as an acqu