they're as much a victim of what happened as anthony graves is. >> reporter: for his own troubles, anthonys should have been paid $1.4 million when he was released. that's what the state of texas figures 18 years of wrongful imprisonment is worth. but there was a paperwork snafu; his release documents never used the words "actual innocence," so texas refused to pay. >> two words, two words. they're holding me hostage behind two words. >> reporter: finally, after nine months of public pressure, the legislature passed and the governor was quick to sign a special measure awarding him the money. graves credited "48 hours mystery" for drawing attention to what he was owed. but he had already won the biggest fight of his life, for his life and for his freedom. >> you could put your hands out and touch both walls where i was living at, you know. >> reporter: he can come and go as he pleases as he tries to absorb how far he's come from a previous life he's still struggling to understand. >> they were trying to kill me. i still can't wrap my mind around how the hell did i go from home to death row

they're as much a victim of what happened as anthony graves is. >> reporter: for his own troubles, anthonyshould have been paid $1.4 million when he was released. that's what the state of texas figures 18 years of wrongful imprisonment is worth. but there was a paperwork snafu; his release documents never used the words "actual innocence," so texas refused to pay. >> two words, two words. they're holding me hostage behind two words. >> reporter: finally, after nine months of public pressure, the legislature passed and the governor was quick to sign a special measure awarding him the money. graves credited "48 hours mystery" for drawing attention to what he was owed. but he had already won the biggest fight of his life, for his life and for his freedom. >> you could put your hands out and touch both walls where i was living at, you know. >> reporter: he can come and go as he pleases as he tries to absorb how far he's come from a previous life he's still struggling to understand. >> they were trying to kill me. i still can't wrap my mind around how the hell did i go from home to death row fo

anthony graves committed the capital murder with robert carter, and we found nothing. >> reporter: otto hanak tried to confirm the testimony from sebesta's jailhouse witnesses. >> we can't find anybody that can positively say, in court or in this room, that "i heard anthony graves say this, i heard robert carter say this." >> reporter: he looked into roy reuter's knife. >> the blade is flimsy. >> reporter: and, according to hanak, a knife this flimsy could not have caused the kind of wounds to the skulls that were found on some victims. >> i personally do not believe that that blade is strong enough, nor is this knife made well enough to go through human skulls. >> it's a switchblade knife. they're made pretty sturdy. >> reporter: d.a. charles sebesta had argued graves' identical knife had inflicted 66 stab wounds the night of the murder. >> there's no doubt that that knife could have survived that. we had texas ranger testimony that it could have done it. >> reporter: but hanak, who is a

anthony? she would be in grave damage and forced to attend a defamation trial against her. anthony acquitted in july of murdering her daughter is being sued by gonzalez. anthony gave cops her name as the nanny to allegedly kidnapped caylee. a judge ruled anthony should attend the trial and would likely receive protection. he also ruled gonzalez attorney can subpoena anthony for trial. >> we know too well some of the best moments are caught on live tv. this one is no exception. presidential pops beau. beau up staging her running through the shot. how about that? that is your 5@5:00. >> beau is pretty smart. >> beautiful weather to get out there and run on the front lawn of the white house. on that note it is time for your first degree weather update with maria molina. >> good to see you and good to see the other heather as well. we are looking at warm temperatures across the area east of the rockies. temperatures are so warm they should be more like what you are expecting during the month of may. get out and enjoy it. although you will have to deal with showers especially acr

toobin says the law appears to be in grave trouble right now based on the questions and the comments made by the justices. listen to the swing justice on the court, anthonycare mandate. >> here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in the previous cases. that changes the government toward the individual in a fundamental way. >> you tweeted today and you said this was a train wreck for president obama, what you heard. you were in the court during those two hours. a train wreck. william brennan, the famous liberal justice used to say the most important rule of the supreme court is the rule of five. with five votes you can do anything you want and there sure looked to me five votes to strike down the individual mandate. chief justice robert, justice scalia, kennedy, alito and thomas and that's all you need. >> the united states since the '60s has mandated or required that all of us, in effect, buy insurance. medicare insurance, social security insurance, to pay for expenditures down the road. what's different about mandating health insurance for ev