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Cobwebs, dirt, bugs, everything, >> thats a blow poke isnt it? >> reporter: in court, the defense played the moment for all it was worth. >> it appears to be. >> did i ever think he was capable of murdering my sister? no. did i know hed already found another woman dead at the bottom of a staircase? no. did i know he lied about his military awards? no. hes a writer of fiction, and thats what i found. he makes things up as he goes to suit the situation. >> reporter: when the case went to the jury,...

Lasted more than two months. and each day, michael petersons girls, margaret and martha, sat in court, suffering as prosecutors labeled their dad a killer. >> they would accuse my father of double murders, or the wife murder, or the staircase murders? >> and we couldnt stand up and say, "wait a second. this isnt true." >> reporter: michael peterson did not testify at his trial but he did sit down with us recently to answer questions about all the evidence against him, nothing was off limits. >> ...

>> agent deaver lied to this court and our jury not once or twice, but repeatedly. >> reporter: and with the peterson supporters holding their breath, the same judge whod presided over the murder trial now laid out his thinking point by point, rhetorical questions -- >> is a new trial required for newly discovered evidence, due process violations, and for perjured testimony? >> reporter: and there it was. michael petersons conviction was tossed out. his family was overwhelmed. >> i was weeping w...

>> every single day of that trial the courtroom was packed, and not packed with just media, and not packed with just lawyers, but people off the street. people took vacation to come in and watch that trial. >> reporter: and michael peterson didnt shy away from all the attention. in fact, he allowed a documentary crew to film him every step of the way. but the only audience that mattered was the 12-person jury. and when the trial began, the prosecution introduced them to the man behind the profes...

Choice that rocks everyone in the case. >> that was, wow. >> including michael himself. >> that was the most difficult decision i ever made in my life.

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Republicans. my whole life has been heat. there should be no reason for us not to get this done. brian: a couple of things happened. number one, i just thought overall how about democrats would be if steny hoyer was in charged. i found him to be very reasonable throughout. he was listening, the give and take. that is as close to real as i have ever seen in washington. and i was sitting next to marie harf on outnumbered and she is saying thats it. thats what its like in these meetings when there ...

Implement or are not implementing social media or counterhacking protocols because for the most part, they dont believe it. >> so then you have answered the third of three questions i think it takes to approach this, malcolm. the first being, do we know what theyre doing? the second is, if we know what theyre doing, do we know how to fight it? and you just answered the question about then do we have the will to do so. the first two questions, do kwee know what theyre doing and do we know how to ...

Griffith, listened to the entirety of the prosecutions case. all she heard were theories. >> they spun a story. and they told a story how they wanted it to go. and they had facts that supported their story. but did not prove it. >> and thats what keiths defense attorney, mark bryant, hammered home for the jury. >> what does no evidence mean? >> they didnt have dna. they didnt have any kind of forensics. they didnt have a confession. they had nothing. they had circumstantial evidence. >> in their...

Veteran attorneys to prepare a vigorous defense. >> it was a tough situation. >> reporter: brothers vic and jacque hawk saw a prosecution case full of titillating soapy drama. but when they started looking at the actual evidence, they were unimpressed: no forensics linked their clients to the murder. >> when you think about it, there were, they did all kinds of, um, csi type of testing within the house. nothing connected either becky sears or chris to the offense. >> reporter: no dna, no fingerp...