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Longer applied. and under the new rules it was better to be classed as a criminal than a jew. then for criminals were given a trial. by jews were fair game. we were tried on charges of attempted escape helping the enemy and forgery. but the public defense lawyer didn't show up. and as strange as it might sound today. we didn't want anyone to defend us anyway which is the best the longer the sentence the better. we already knew that prison would be preferable to a concentration camp and it wasn't very pleasant it's true let's say that we were locked in our cells twenty four hours a day the only...

>> reporter: family and friends stepped in, took care of his small kids who began a weekly ritual visiting dad in prison. taylor, the eldest. >> you go and get to see him for two hours a week and you've got a bunch of other people talking and it's loud. and you can't really have a private conversation. that was definitely the hardest part for us. i mean, he held it together well but -- >> reporter: what was it like driving home? >> quiet. >> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> that was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there ...

>> reporter: had cal harris won the lottery, it could hardly be as surprising as the news he heard in the prison yard in 2012. this is rare, though. i mean this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> reporter: what happened? new york's court of appeals overturned his second murder conviction, citing errors made by the judge and ordered trial number three. while everyone waited for that, cal once again went home to the house on empire lake and his four growing children. tanner, the youngest, was in eighth grade then. the rest were in high school. >> that was great. >> reporter: what a c...

>> reporter: watching his kids walk away week after week, said cal, was unimaginably hard. >> that was the worst. i went back to my cell and just laid there for hours and hours and just closed my eyes and tried to block it out. >> reporter: three years rolled by. but then came a day in october, 2012, when cal harris found himself crying for joy in the prison yard. coming up -- >> it's rare, though. i mean, this is really rare for that to happen. >> yeah. >> a new chance at freedom, new urgency from the kids. >> this is our time to do our part. >> and a whole new theory of the case. >> it's a...

14 civil complaints were filed wednesday. at least three other lawsuits have been brought since october 1. next week thomas "special report" will take you to las vegas to get answers. fox 10 in phoenix, guards at lewis prison in buckeye arizona recover a crash drone meant to deliver drugs and cell phones. the drone was found inside the prison fence but outside the prison yard. it's believed to be the first such attempt in arizona but at least a dozen others such schemes have been reported in the last five years. this is a live look at dallas. foggy, rainy dallas from fox 4. the big story there...