the family would have known. sarah, always outspoken, wasn't the type to suffer in silence. >> sarah told everybody, she's a chatty person, she had just been with her family for an entire weekend without ryan being there. if there were any problems, believe me, they all would have known it and i probably would have known it because sarah probably would have called and yelled at me about something that my son was doing that wasn't nice to her. >> but none of that mattered now. the jury had spoken and the defense lawyer still couldn't get over the guilty verdict. >> it was awful. it was on my shoulders. it was my duty to get a proper verdict and i failed. >> ryan had become more than a client to him. >> i absolutely believed him. i had him to my home, i had him around my wife and kids. there was no question in my mind he was innocent. innocent. >> he did what lawyers often do after losing a case. he wrote a motion to have the judge let ryan go free or order a new trial.