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narrator: next up is a business that seeks to support people surviving in war-torn and volatile environments. hello, sharks. my name is matt griffin. please call me "griff." i'm donald lee. call me "lee." we're combat flip flops... [ chuckles ] ...and we're seeking $150,000 for 10% of our company. sharks, we're here today to enlist you into the unarmed forces. what we do is simple -- we make cool products in dangerous places. in our past lives, griff and i were army rangers. our motto states, "rangers lead the way." ooh rah. our mission is to create badass products by skilled entrepreneurs surviving in areas of conflict. this mission provides peaceful, sustainable change in areas that need hope. our footwear is made in bogotá, colombia. we support craftsmen, not cartels.

our belts, sarongs, scarves, and cashmere are made in afghanistan. we employ women and put little girls in school. we partner with a de-mining organization in lao to make a line of jewelry out of land mines. sharks, right now, you're probably thinking we're crazy. and you're right. [ laughs ] but somebody probably said the same thing to you once, and it didn't stop you. we know that businesses are more powerful than bullets. so, sharks, enlist in the unarmed forces today. we brought you some gear from colombia, afghanistan, and lao. these are for you. i love flip-flops. robert, we got you the -- the ak-47s. these are really comfortable. these are beautifully made. cuban: where'd you guys serve at? we served with the 2nd ranger battalion, 75th ranger regimen. where? we did two tours in afghanistan together. i did one tour in iraq. and did you start the businesses then? we -- we had always talked about starting a business together, right, and -- and just, through our experiences in afghanistan, we -- you know, we found that we wanted to do more for the country other than go over there and be soldiers, right? we wanted to kind of give back. and we -- and we thank you for that.

so -- so, i'm gonna speculate that these are your biggest sellers. they are. what does it cost you to make them and what do they cost landed, and then what do you sell them for here? so, our full-leather models -- the ak -- those will cost us $20 to make. and right now they cost us $4.90 to land each. so right around $25 because we're air-shipping them in. why are you air-shipping? well, because we just haven't been able to keep up with demand. we were selling them as fast as we had them. for the past three years, we've been sold out of product. what -- what do you sell them for? what will you sell them for? yes. we're selling them for $70. where were you selling them through? last year, we had 89% online, direct through our website, and 11% through wholesalers. what are your total sales, griff? last year, we did $134,000, and we just eclipsed last year's numbers. i think we're gonna hit $300,000. will you make money this year? we're already making money this year. how much you making? we're gonna be at 5% net this year. when you're dealing with various different territories, there are a lot of challenges, you know? i remember we opened a factory in africa, and we had to make sure that all the workers had -- had bikes. it took about a year to really understand where the challenges were. so i know that those are gonna be complicated.

now, with that being said, will you be able to scale this accordingly and to provide for people when they want it? we believe so. we don't know how to scale, we'll be very honest about it. but we got guys who do. hey, i'm a huge, huge, huge believer in business over bullets, and if we're gonna have any impact on the rest of the world, we got to export the american dream. so, you said you were making something in afghanistan. give me the scoop. so, we found a woman-owned factory, and we said, "hey, can you make some sarongs?" and their first question was, you know, "what's a sarong?" you're trying to talk about beachwear to afghan women, and they don't know. so, we had to -- i'm still shocked they let an afghani woman open a -- open a business and have a factory. her name's hassina sherjan. and she left afghanistan with her family, and she was educated in america. and she heard that afghan women were being persecuted. so she flew back. in the mid '90s, she funded underground, clandestine schools for girls... wow. ...during the years of the taliban. now she's managing all the secondary education for afghan women. she's taken the money from the factory

that she's making and educating? yeah, and we're matching her. that's amazing. first of all, thank you for your service. i'm challenged with how you scale this with so many products. love your background. love the discipline. nobody has discipline like vets. but it's too many products for the size you are. you've got to be narrow, and you've got to be very deep. or it's a personal cause, which is fine. but the challenge is, robert, if they go narrow and deep on this product, then they will be abandoning a lot of the territories they're helping that doesn't make this product. but the reality of the situation -- you're asking for $150,000 for 10% of the company. you're giving a value of $1.5 million on the company. and we have to, at this point, address that, to some extent. we just signed a canadian distributor that's selling into 390 stores. we just opened in negotiations with the military exchanges. -which products? -yeah, which -- they're gonna be buying the footwear. herjavec: just the footwear? just the footwear is what we're gonna focus on. o'leary: i think what you guys are doing is really -- it's good and it's noble and it's the right thing.

but the fundamentals of the business here -- the diversification you've put into your model adds a lot of operational logistics risk. i mean, supplying these products from different places is hard enough. i would have preferred to see a -- a myopic focus on the footwear, to build it up to a $5-million, $10-million business and, with the profits from that, support all these other initiatives you want to do because, in the end, a business has to make money to survive and keep all the people employed, which is what you guys want to do. i'm finding the deal too diversified and not focused enough, in terms of being an investment. so, for me, i'm out. i got something for you, kevin. [ laughter ] what is that? it's how we mark the dead. [ laughter ] yeah! wow. i love it. -i love that. -i love it. i should give you an offer just for that. cool. herjavec: griff, you have a great story, you have a great brand, but it's too many products for this size.

it's gonna be challenging to keep growing. i'm out. please don't give me an orange thing. [ both laugh ] no, we're good. grenier: i like the mission. i love what you've done for serving our country. very difficult to do what you're doing. i know that. i think daymond knows that, too. i do agree with the other sharks about focusing in on something that's your strength, like the flip-flops, then branching out, is smarter, to me. if another shark will go in with me... i'd be willing to make you an offer. what would you offer? i'd like to hear if someone else is interested in going in with me, if mark or daymond is. then that would just be 200k for 25%. mark? daymond? we're having a conversation over here. oh. i wanted to see if either of you were interested in coming in because i don't know where your heads are at. yeah. uh, i think mark -- mark wanted to give some thoughts right here. you want me to say it? yeah. okay. [ laughs ] you can -- you can say it. look, we're both big believers.

i mean, business over bullets every day. so, while from a purely business perspective, focusing, you know, on your core product would make perfect sense, there's a bigger picture here. you've got two stories going on, one in the -- the -- the footwear, one with the sarongs or whatever the heck these are called. we -- we want -- whatever you're making in afghanistan, we want to make more of it, right? we want to hire more people. we want more people to be educated. so here's the offer. you asked for 150k for 10%. what we'd like to do is give you 200k, but for 25%. so, daymond's willing to let me in on that offer. we're splitting it three ways. no. [ laughter ] like he said, lori, we don't want you. this is 12.5%, 12.5% over here. you don't have to put up any cash, and you get to pick any of the products that you feel work for your outlets. and what do i make from that? -your markup. -your money, your markup. just on those products. i would rather be a partner with you. i think the business needs a feminine touch, guys.

-no! -thank you. we're putting women in school. well, look, if you're gonna do that, then we're probably gonna have to come back and ask for 30%. would you do a deal, 30% for three sharks? that's a lot of -- that's a lot of horsepower. they would have to up the cash to do that. o'leary: well, maybe they will. you got to come back. can you do $300,000 for 30%? i'll do $110,000. i don't care. you guys? -done. -done! -done. business. let's go to work. thank you, sir. congratulations, griff. thank you very much. appreciate everything you've done. looking forward to working with you. -congratulations. -thank you. -thank you. -[ chuckles ] thank you, kevin. thank you. -congrats, guys. -thanks, guys. -thank you, mark. -good job. i just didn't want to take too much of the company, that's all. grenier: no, i totally get it. it's a good cause. -i got to tell you, i -- -it's a good mission. -i love their mission. i really love this product. -i agree. -yeah. [ laughs ] -we did it. -it's awesome. we're gonna help a lot of people and do a lot of good things. we think mark's gonna help us dominate the tech space where we want to be, daymond's gonna help us with branding, and lori's gonna help with distribution.

it's a dream team. right. we couldn't be more excited. yeah. . barb thayer, noticed a distracted michele getting ready for work. and how was michele that day? >> frantic. i know she had a headache and she was late for work. >> reporter: after the dinner

shift ended at 9:00 p.m., michele had some drinks with co-workers at lefty's to unwind and talk about the country's unimaginable day. then she left to visit her new boyfriend, 23-year-old brian earley, who insists michele returned home before midnight. then the following morning, barb thayer received a call from the harris home just after 7:00 a.m. who called you? >> cal. in the morning. >> reporter: what did he say? >> he just said, michele didn't come home, and would i come up and help get the kids ready for school? i said, "yes." and that had never happened before. >> reporter: concerned, thayer quickly drove to the harris house. she immediately noticed something strange. michele's ford minivan sitting at the end of their long driveway, with no one inside. keys in the ignition. from the time that you rolled into that driveway and saw that minivan. how long did it take you to know what happened?

>> i'm going to say maybe four minutes? >> reporter: four minutes until thayer says she started to suspect foul play. she rushed to the house to get some answers from michele's estranged husband, cal. >> i asked where michele was and i was told that she went to new york city. >> reporter: went to new york city? >> i doubt very seriously that anybody would have been able to get into new york city on september the 12th. it was just a completely implausible, nonsensical tale. >> it was like a blood-draining moment. the hair stands up on the back of your neck and you just know something. >> reporter: thayer says she found it curious that cal seemed more concerned with getting the kids packed off to school than locating his wife. he asked her to retrieve michele's car from the end of the driveway and off he went to work. the only ones panicking, it seems, were michele's friends. listen to this frantic voicemail from her friend nikki burdick.

>> where the hell are you? you need to call me as soon as freaking possible. i am worried to death about you. you need to call me on my cell phone. good-bye. >> reporter: failing to reach michele, burdick called michele's divorce attorney, robert miller. his son todd was there. >> and that's when my dad called the police. >> her divorce lawyer is the one that ultimately contacts the police. now that's a fine how do you do. >> common sense dictates that you do. call the authorities. good grief, my wife's not home. >> reporter: but was it foul play or had michele run off? within hours, a manhunt ensued. police prowling the harris estate, the dense forests and that glimmering lake. there was no sign of michele on the grounds. and inside the house, nothing seemed amiss at first.

but upon closer examination investigators find something alarming. blood. tiny droplets of blood. some spattered in a kitchen alcove. on the door and on the rug. and just beyond, through the door, police found what appears to be dried blood under peeling paint on the garage floor. upon closer examination, it seemed to investigators that someone had tried to wipe it up. dna testing confirmed some of the blood was michele's. why did they have michele's dna on them? >> not all of them have michele's dna on them. people have blood in their homes. you know that. everybody knows that. this is not a crime scene. >> reporter: but police weren't buying what this car dealer was selling. and they were now eyeing cal harris, not as a spouse spurned, but as a potential murder suspect. >> a helicopter on top of my house. i could see the pilot's face hovering right over the roof of

my home. >> cal always understood that he was going to be a suspect. i mean, it's -- they were going through a divorce. there were domestic issues. but i also believe that because he knew he was innocent, he had nothing to lose. >> reporter: months went by and the harris children began to wonder about their missing mother. when they asked you where their mommy was, what did you tell them? >> their mom was gone, and that she never would have left him that she was taken from them. >> reporter: after four long years there was still no michele, no murder weapon and no smoking gun, but finally there was movement. police arrested their prime suspect, michele's husband, cal harris. >> the chatter that was going on at that time was sort of like a, "well, it's about time" type of attitude. jury selection took a very long

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arrest for her murder four years later. what was that like? >> it was pretty rough. >> we didn't get to say bye, we just came home one day after school and our aunt and uncle and our nanny were there and told us about it. >> reporter: did they ever ask you, daddy, did you kill mom? >> no. they've never asked me that. >> reporter: now, normally the biggest event around owego is the annual strawberry festival. >> cal, anything to say? >> reporter: but in may, 2007, townsfolk got out their pitchforks for a different event. one of the wealthiest men in the county, cal harris, was about to stand trial. >> there was a lot of presumption that cal harris was guilty among all the residents in tioga county. >> reporter: but the case wouldn't be as easy to sell as one of cal's cars, that according to abc news legal anchor dan abrams and legal analyst and former prosecutor sunny hostin. >> you've got no murder weapon. you've got no body. >> you still have to be able to frame the story as a prosecutor. and so you're going to look at

motive. you're going to look at opportunity. and you're going to look at behavior. >> reporter: when it came to motive, prosecutors say harris had reason enough to kill his wife. >> you have a man who is in the middle of a bitter divorce. he doesn't want to give up half of his money. he doesn't want to lose custody of his children. there are a lot less reasons to kill someone. >> reporter: as for opportunity, prosecutors say cal's estate wasn't just an outdoorsman's playground but perfect grounds for foul play despite that exhaustive search by authorities. >> they live on over 200 acres of property that he knows extremely well. plenty of places to make someone disappear. >> reporter: and finally, prosecutors point to cal harris' behavior. they say he wasn't exactly acting like a bereaved husband. >> he acted really strangely. he didn't ask about her well-being. that's a pretty good story for a jury. >> i think the prosecution had a great and compelling story. they just didn't have a lot of evidence.

and that's the problem. >> that is the problem. >> reporter: but remember, prosecutors did have some physical evidence. that small amount of blood found inside the house. and the prosecution said the blood spatter pattern revealed that michele had been attacked with a blunt object. >> jurors love the c.s.i. effect, they love that kind of forensic testimony. you have that in this case. >> reporter: and ultimately, it was that blood evidence that largely carried the day. prosecutors scoring a stunning victory, cal harris was convicted of second degree murder. >> calvin harris was convicted of killing his estranged wife michele. a jury determined there was enough evidence to convict harris of second degree murder. >> i was in shock. i just went numb. all i could think about was that i'm not going to be going home. i'm not going to see my kids. >> reporter: and then, just days before he was to be sentenced possibly for life behind bars,

a stunning development that upends the entire case. from out of nowhere, this man emerges. a farmer named kevin tubbs who plants the seeds of doubt. claiming that at dawn on the day michele disappeared he spotted not one, but two vehicles at the front of harris' long driveway. here he is, telling cbs news what he saw. >> there's a man at the back of the pickup. there's a woman at the side of the pickup. she was a blonde-haired woman. it appeared that she was crying. and it appeared that he was a little upset. >> reporter: but how could michele have been alive that morning, when prosecutors argued that cal had killed his wife inside the house earlier during the night? >> if you believe kevin tubbs, you simply can't convict cal harris, because the prosecution's timeline has been completely shattered. >> reporter: and sure enough, the judge found tubbs' account to be credible and to the dismay of michele's family and friends he threw out harris' conviction.

>> the judge just looked down at me and said, unhandcuff him. and i just started bawling. i just started crying. >> the new evidence could possibly cause a different outcome. calvin harris is free on bail. >> reporter: but the prosecutors are relentless. in june of 2009, they put him on trial for a second time. now, jurors hear tubbs' account and harris himself takes the stand. and once more, the jury is not buying it. he's convicted again of michele's murder. he's headed to the slammer for 25 years to life. what was going through your mind? >> just missing the kids growing up. just missing all those special moments, those special events. >> reporter: but after spending over three years in prison, the topsy-turvy tioga trial saga takes yet another astonishing turn. this time for harris! an appeals court rules that the judge improperly allowed hearsay testimony in as evidence. believe it or not, cal harris' murder conviction was

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you'd be hard pressed to think of this as a backdrop for a murder. >> well, there wasn't a murder here. >> reporter: and if you're accused of murdering your wife, enough money to pay for the best defense, not once but four times. >> ultimately what cal was looking for, i think, is somebody that was going to be fairly aggressive both at obviously defending him but more to the point, to finding out who actually killed his wife. >> reporter: bruce barket took over cal harris' case before his third murder trial in 2015, and enlisted a highly paid dream team of former police detectives and private investigators to clear their client's name. so what did investigators see when they first started looking at this house? >> so this was the scene where they found the blood splatter. minute little droplets of blood. >> reporter: forensic expert natalie beyer was hired to take a closer look at those blood stains found inside the harris home. so the only place where there was blood spatter of any kind was in this area?

>> correct. and it isn't a crime scene. >> reporter: of course, you're paid to say that. >> i'm paid to review cases forensically, and it didn't exist here. >> reporter: the blood evidence was the crux of the prosecution's case against cal harris in those convictions in trials one and two. but the prosecution is relentless, hoping a third trial will be the charm. ten drops of blood? >> ten drops of blood. >> reporter: still, what were ten drops of blood and spatters about a millimeter wide, what were they doing here? >> good questions, no idea. >> reporter: seems jurors in cal's third murder trial couldn't figure that out either. and after 11 excruciating days of deliberation, they were hung. a mistrial was declared. some of the blood was michele's, right? >> some of the blood was michele's, but you can't tell at what time of the year, of the day, when that blood was deposited. >> reporter: still, prosecutors

aren't giving up. this past december, on the eve of harris' fourth trial, the defense hires bill flanagan to get a fresh perspective on the case. he's a retired deputy police commissioner turned grizzled private eye. >> the real crime scene here is out at the front gate where michele harris' van was found. >> reporter: flanagan says that's the spot local farmer kevin tubbs claimed to have seen a blonde woman fitting michele's description, and another man, the morning she went missing. defense team investigator dave beers. >> after kevin tubbs came forward, i went back to the drawing board to try to find out if any of the suspects in the case drove a dark pickup truck. >> reporter: so who was this mysterious man? to try to find out, the investigators start taking a closer look at some of the men michele might have known and any who might drive a dark pickup. they zero in on this man,

stacy stewart, who frequented lefty's bar where michele was slinging drinks. >> when i started looking into stacy, one thing led to another. >> reporter: he's the guy? >> he fit the physical description of kevin tubbs described, and he owned a 2000 black chevy pickup. so the red flags went up right away. >> reporter: as you might imagine, cal harris' attorneys were eager to talk to stacy stewart. what you're about to hear is a never before heard audio recording of an interview between stewart and cal harris' defense team. >> there were people that said you were obsessed with her. that you were giving her $100 tips, that, you know, that kind of stuff. >> damn. >> reporter: they want to know just how well he knew her. >> there were a couple of people that have told investigators and police over the course of time you were involved with her sexually. >> i have never been alone with that girl. >> reporter: stewart vehemently denies ever dating michele or even seeing her that night. but the defense feels they have a new lead after talking to him. stewart tells them around the

time michele harris went missing, this man, chris thomason, an old drinking buddy, came to his home with a female friend. they were covered in blood. >> they showed up with bloody clothes one night? >> it looked like they might have skinned a deer or something. >> what did they do with the clothing? >> they burned it. >> reporter: which brings us all the way back to that fire pit. this is where stacy stewart claims that it was chris thomason who burned those bloody clothes. remember that bra strap? the defense believes it could have been michele harris'. what are these? >> there's a bra strap. there is a button that appears to come from some form of women's apparel. >> reporter: this is more archaeology than criminology. >> it is, absolutely. >> reporter: you can see where this is going. these private eyes peering back into the past and seeing stacy stewart or chris thomason somehow linked to michele harris' disappearance or maybe even her murder. >> i don't know who's responsible for michele harris' demise.

what i believe at this jcture is that there are at least two people associated with this property and this pit that have more information than they have given to anyone at this juncture. >> reporter: tonight, chris thomason sits in a texas jail, incarcerated for an unrelated crime. we reached out to him, but he declined comment. but on those audio recordings he denies ever burning anyone's clothes. >> i didn't -- i didn't do anything. i don't know anything. >> reporter: as for stacy stewart, he was also called to testify in cal harris' fourth trial but ended up a no-show. so we tried to find him. real estate records obtained by "20/20" show an address for the elusive stacy stewart, 1,700 miles away in new braunfels, texas. but that address leads us to this empty lot. no sign of stewart here. >> i think texas is central to potentially finding michele. >> reporter: so we turned to

investigator bill flanagan for help. he helped us track down this woman, julie brinkman, stacy stewart's ex-girlfriend. julie told us about a strange conversation she had with stewart in january 2015 after a night of drinking. >> he initially said that he didn't know the victim in the case. >> reporter: but julie says stacy stewart's story gradually changed as the night wore on. >> he brought it up again later in the evening and he said, i was the last person to be seen with her alive. >> reporter: julie says it all seemed rather insignificant until stewart told her he "knew how to hide a body." but is the defense grasping at straws? watch what happens next. anything? can i h hey siri, what's at&t's latest offer? oh, i don't think that siri can... right now, switch to at&t for an iphone and get one free. wow, is that right? yeah, it's basically... yes. that is the current offer from at&t. okay siri, you don't know everything.

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>> reporter: it's a may morning in schoharie, new york. another tiny town with another native american name, but it's more than just a change of scenery for cal harris. it's a change of venue.

the defense fought to move the case here after their polling determined the name cal harris was toxic in tioga county. >> 97% of them, just by name, when you mentioned cal harris, knew that that was a case about a guy who was on trial who had been convicted twice before of murdering his wife. >> reporter: something else is different here at harris' fourth trial. defense attorney bruce barket is rolling the dice, opting for a bench trial instead of a jury trial, as he tries to convince a judge harris is not guilty of second degree murder. it's a very different thing trying to convince a single person, a judge rather than a jury. and you are theatrical. and you are -- your delivery -- >> i don't know if i'm theatrical. i think i'm just expressive. >> reporter: maybe a little too expressive for judge richard mott, a guy who likes to wear a bow tie and drive a jaguar, but doesn't care for flashy in his courtroom. >> the first day of the trial, i

was, i swear, 30 seconds late. and he said, "you're late. this will never happen again." really scolded me. >> reporter: what you're about to watch is the only portion of cal harris' four trials ever broadcast -- closing arguments. >> look at cal. people judge him, people look at him. >> reporter: the defense decides to confront a nagging issue that has dogged cal harris throughout his ordeal. >> i wanted to botox his forehead. because every picture that they would snap of him was like this. he would furrow his eyebrows. so he doesn't play to the press. he doesn't go out of his way to act innocent. he is innocent. and if you don't believe it, too bad. that's his attitude. >> reporter: but the defense had been dealt a huge blow. all that was uncovered at that burn pit? judge mott tossed it out, ruling that it was inadmissible because there was no dna link to michelle harris. and those audio recordings from alternative suspects?

they were thrown out, too. so barket then turns his attention to the evidence -- or lack thereof. barket claims the small amount of blood found inside the harris home is not evidence of a crime. >> even if it was all michelle's blood, and it clearly is not, ten drops fits in this vial. >> reporter: next, barket takes aim at that blood evidence in a different way, questioning the authenticity of those crime scene photos. >> the color is off by a significant margin. the exposure is wrong. you can't rely on that kind of evidence to convict a man of murder. >> reporter: barket says he knows why the photos are so red. >> it was one of the more deceptive things i've seen prosecutors engage in. they literally manufactured evidence here. >> reporter: barket says this video -- outtakes subpoenaed by the defense from cbs -- is proof the photos were tampered with. members of the prosecution's team and renowned forensics

expert dr. henry lee talking about pictures that had been altered to compensate for bad photography work at the crime scene. >> another thing that they did with some of these photographs where they had the flash problem is they exposed or they somehow treated them. >> exposure correction. they corrected the exposure. >> reporter: the state police say they didn't alter or enhance any photos that were submitted for evidence at trial. >> i could not believe that you had a district attorney, a senior investigator from the state police, and henry lee sitting there, talking about altered photographs. >> reporter: conversely, barket says the testimony of kevin tubbs is true blue. remember, he's the witness who testified he saw a man and a woman at the base of harris' driveway on september 12th. >> kevin tubbs had no reason to

fabricate, no reason to make anything up, no reason to come forward. he's not an attention seeker. >> reporter: now it's kirk martin's chance to sway the judge his way. the tioga county d.a. presented his argument in vivid detail. >> she bled on the floor of the garage, and the defendant cleaned up that blood. michele harris was murdered by that man sitting right there. >> reporter: the prosecution says the mere name stacey stewart is nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from cal harris. >> what possible diabolical motive would stacey stewart have to murder michelle harris, wife of the defendant? >> reporter: the prosecution says it was harris who had all the tools to make a body disappear. >> he's got vehicles to load michele's body into. there was the gator and the atvs in the garage. he's got garbage bags to put her in, and the stuff from the kitchen island. we acknowledge he found a good spot, a spot that he knew would make her disappear. >> reporter: and martin reminds the court cal harris had the

means and the motive and the opportunity. >> michele died in an act of domestic violence at the hands of her familiar adversary. her husband, the defendant, calvin harris. >> reporter: with that -- judge mott begins his deliberations. >> everyone here at the courthouse is now playing the waiting game like you said, waiting on judge richard mott. >> reporter: and just last week, the judge reached his decision. >> he has a somber expression on his face. and at that point, i thought, "oh, no." >> he came out. he was stern. he looked at nobody. >> and he says, "in the people versus cal harris, indictment number 2,009, i find the defendant not guilty. bail in the amount of $500,000 is exonerated." and he gets up and walks out. >> it was stunning. >> not guilty. that's the verdict calvin harris heard today at his fourth murder trial. >> reporter: in a reversal of

fortune, cal harris, a man who could easily have left this building in handcuffs, instead walks out a free man. >> i thought i was done and i was numb, and then when he came back with a not guilty, i was shocked. i was truly shocked. >> reporter: coming up -- cal harris talking tough. >> what we have on them is going to be shocking. music: "pretty woman" with♪roy orbison of course you go all out for date night... ♪ ...even if you're just staying in. ♪ walgreens has all the beauty products you need

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putting the courthouse and the case in his rear view mirror. >> total relief. just all this pressure and all this weight that's been on my shoulders, you know, for so long, finally, finally some calm in my life. >> reporter: but just beneath the calm, bitterness. harris isn't satisfied with exoneration. he wants retribution against those who prosecuted him. >> they were enjoying every moment of going after me. it was sport for them, it was entertainment for them. >> reporter: harris and his legal team say they'll file a civil suit in the coming months alleging misconduct by the former tioga county district attorney and new york state police. >> what we have on them is going to be shocking when it comes time for the trial. >> reporter: doesn't part of you just want to let this go? i mean you said that they robbed

you of 15 years of your life? >> no, no, why? >> reporter: don't you just want to put that behind you? >> why? >> reporter: so you can live the rest of your life. >> and let them do this to somebody else? >> reporter: in a statement the new york state police say, "we continued to pursue all leads, right through the last trial. we continue to stand by the work our investigators did on this case." the four harris children are now estranged from their mother's family, who declined an interview. those kids have stood by their father throughout the entire ordeal. >> reporter: do you think about sacrifice? do you think about the stuff that you've lost because your dad has been involved with this seemingly endless battle with the law? >> yeah, definitely. he was gone for like four years at one point. and that's a lot of time to miss when you're growing up as a kid. >> reporter: they have also grown up mostly without their mother michele, whose memory they hope will not be forgotten. you think about her often? >> yeah, i do. i try to be the person that she would want me to be. >> reporter: out of all of these is there one that you like best?

okay, why? >> she just seems so happy. >> reporter: cal harris is happy to be home but he is not basking in the glow of that legal victory. well aware of all that has been lost. >> there's going to be no celebrating at my house. there's no winners here. everybody loses. michele loses, her family loses, my kids lose, the taxpayers of tioga county lose, there's no winners here. >> so, based on what you just saw, how would you have voted on one of those juries? let us know. and tuesday night, robin roberts' exclusive interview with bobby brown. >> tuesday night, bobby brown, with whitney and bobbi

gone. emotion emotional, deeply private. >> that was the first time i saw her do drugs. >> cocaine? >> yes, ma'am. >> the marriage. >> i left the marriage with nothing. >> the unimaginable pain. >> the hardest thing i had to do in my life was let my daughter go. my baby is gone. >> now, the first steps on the road back. >> the robin roberts special "20/20" everyone will be talking about. tuesday night on abc. >> and tomorrow on "20/20" saturday, i look at o.j. fever. why o.j. simpson is back in the news. i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir. we'll see you tomorrow night. have a great friday night. good night.

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