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Double rainbow tonight. >> finally, on day four, late in the afternoon, news. >> the court officer who knows us very well, he sort of came in very gently, and he says, hey, folks, we have a verdict. >> reporter: we have a verdict. >> and immediately upon that moment of hearing that, my heart starts racing. >> and i walked back with cara to the courthouse, and she was breathing, you know, really deep breathing. i said, cara, it's going to be okay. >> the defendant would please rise. >> inside the courtroom, a verdict read by the foreman off camera. >> she's guilty of murder in the first degree....

Remain silent so -- >> it's like, you can't believe it. there's nothing, nothing to point to cara. how could this possibly be the worst possible outcome, how? >> afterwards, her past your lamented. breanna's clearly lost her other mother now, in a sense. >> yes. god, where art thou? >> ann's family was also stunned but pleased. >> murder one? it's still -- i'm still reeling on that one. it's what we wanted for the last two trials. >> it was a surprise, but really just an affirmation of everything we had done. >> this possibility that it could have been anyone else and adhere to the timeline --...

It. there's nothing. nothing to point to cara. how could this possibly be the worst possible outcome? how? >> reporter: afterwards, reverend lori souder, cara's pastor, friend, and firm defender, lamented. brianna has clearly lost her other mother now, in a sense? >> yes. god, where art thou? >> reporter: ann's family was also stunned. but pleased. >> murder one -- i'm still reeling on that one. it's what we wanted for the last two trials. >> it was a surprise but really, just an affirmation of everything we had done. >> the possibility that it could have been anyone else and adhere to the tim...

Think it's going to lead to more convictions, more vindications for police officers? >> i hope more cameras lead to more transparency. i do want to make one observation. i think antonio might agree with this. there's a different presence with the law enforcement and national guard here. there's more room for the protesters to be peaceful. i was republican chairman, the judge was a republican appointee 28 years on the bench. if you look at the ruling. he lays it out. maybe people wish it was a different decision. it's not outside of what the facts were. i think the story is the prosecutor who c...

Appointee. if you look at the ruling, as antonio said, it's not outside of what the facts were. i think the story is that the the prosecutor who charged this as murder one, this guy -- the guy that was killed has records. he clearly had been in trouble, but she charged it wrong. prosecutors set this up where she put all her chips in the center and the judge said i can't do that. she played politics to play to the black lives matter movement in st. louis and she lost that case because of it. >> well, i disagree a little bit with ed about those facts, but i'll say this. the attorney's office is ...