>> billy richardson felt responsible for the client's predicament. >> we did not do as good of a jobs we were capable. so i made up my mind right then that i was going to be the lawyer that i was supposed to be. so i got off of my butt and i went to work. >> they quickly filed an appeal to the north carolina supreme court, and they had to the decide what to emphasize from the mishandling of evidence to possible perjury. >> they quickly settled on the photographs. that presentation was thought to have riled up the jury and pointed at him over and over again and you see that picture? he did it. you see that picture? he did it. >> our supreme court didn't just read the briefs but they got a projector and saw the show themselves, and within 22 days, they said, give them another trial. >> it broke all of our hearts, because we had to call gary and say, you have to go through it one more time. >> billy richardson reinvestigated every aspect of the case. >> we were so much better prepared for the second trial. when i started digging, we found how many things that we didn't know at the first