. >> reporter: robert bailey junior, michael bell, brian purvis, theo shaw. four young me, part of a group of defendants known as the jena #, a racially charged case that divided the nation. the teens were charged with attempted murder, then battery following is 2006 schoolyard fight that left a white classmate unconscious. >> i know what i did, but when i heard the term attempted murder, i'm think, like, man, attempted murder. all i did... >> michael bell was the first of the six teens to be tried and convicted in adult court. a ruling that sparked anger across the country. what is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase jeana 6 anger. pain. >> reporter: now a 24-year-old student at southern university in baton rouge, bell wants to set the record straight. >> it's important for the country to know what happened with the jeana 6. they stood up and said they had nothing to do with it and i did everything. it was important for everybody to know what happened. if you had a part in it you should have said at the time that you had something to

memories. >> 25-year-old brian purvis lives in dallas with his son. he started a tort company and plans to release a book on the case this winter. >> i don't believe justice was served. i believe the case was resolved, but i don't believe in justice. i'll make knew routes, i never give up. >> reporter: robert bailey junior lives in rushton, near his gramling university. >> reporter: there was no jena 6, a jena 1. he feels he was hung out. you share a similar concern, and does that make sense where he is coming from, he's the scapegoat. >> it makes sense if you are in his shoes. if you look at it, you know the issue. he did more time than everybody else, he didn't see what we saw, 20,000 people on the streets. he didn't see that or witness that, or the meet of the whole case. he was incarcerated, everything. not to experience what was going on, i hear it will make it. >> reporter: bailey, a 24-year-old father of two graduated in may and starts grad school this summer and says the jena 6 case is behind him. >> i'm not mad at no one about nothing. i have