i said i shot charles campbell to stop him from beating my father with a bat.t's not depraved injustice murder. >> i'm happy that it came back in the light that i wanted it to come back in but i can't feel a victim. two families were totally detroited. >> but there was something about the case against richard diguglielmo. two witnesses came forward and said diguglielmo was acting in self-defense and were pressured to chang their stories. bellantoni was an appeals court justice. >> what i dealt with was whether or not certain witnesses were coerced and if so whether the jury was made aware of this coercion. >> although some witnesses from the original trial supported the prosecution's version of the shooting, two who were closest to the shooting were not. one of those witnesses was michael dillan. >> after giving his original statement on the night of the shooting, he was picked up by police officers night and day until he changes his statement. >> the dobbs ferry detectives just kept asking me the same questions over and over again, night after night. it was li

charles campbell, outnumbered three to one, went to his car. but rather than leave, he pulled out a bat. >> this man with a bat in his hands, how much more of a threat did that make him to your father? >> it made him a deadly threat. >> reporter: back in the store, rich said he saw campbell strike his father not once, but twice with the metal bat. >> i just saw him up with the bat and he started to swing and that's when i reached for the gun. >> reporter: the off-duty officer grabbed the gun from under the cash register and raced outside, firing three times, hitting charles campbell in the middle of his chest. >> somebody was shot! >> from the time that bat came out until the time the incident was over, it was a matter of four seconds, five seconds, and my training just kicked in. >> reporter: he doesn't remember the moments immediately after the shooting, only that one of the responding officers handed him the gun and asked for help removing the bullet clip. then he, his father and brother-in-law were taken to the police station. >> we want wh

instead prosecutors claimed diguglielmo shot charles campbell in a murderous rage. assistant district attorney patricia murphy telling the jury, quote, this is a case about revenge. had is a case about retribution. this is a case about payback. prosecutors argued the father, son and son-in-law ganged up on campbell so that campbell had no choice but to grab a bat from his car. >> i know chaz. when he grabbed that bat, the idea of getting that bat was to just show, all right, y'all, back on up, you know, i'm not trying to start nothing here but i will finish it. they kept charging him. so he swung i think once

charles campbell outnumbered 3-1 went to his car.ther than leave, he pulled out a bat. >> this man about a bat in his hands, how much more of a threat did that make him to your father? >> a deadly threat. >> back in the store, rich said he saw campbell strike his father not once but twice. >> i saw him up with the bat and he started to swing. that's where i reached for the gun. >> the officer grabbed the gun and raced outside, firing three times, hitting charles campbell in the middle of his chest. . >> by the time it came out, my training kicked in. >> he doesn't remember the moments, but only that one of the responding officers handed him the gun and asked for help removing the bullet chip. he, his father and brother-in-law were taken to the police station. >> the shooting was racially motivate and confirmed by the district attorney. >> there were racial epitaphs that the victim was stabbed at the time prior to the shooting. that information has been confirmed. >> did you ever use any racial slurs? >> we never used a curse word or

this was triggered by an argument between the police officer's father and 37-year-old charles campbellver a parking space and escalated fatally when campbell pulled out a baseball bat. >> i was convicted of second-degree murder with i am prafed indifference in 1997 and sentenced to 20 years to life. >> new york city police officer rich around served 11 years in prison before a judge tossed out his conviction and he was sent home. his friends and family celebrating his release. >> when you walked out -- >> it was surreal. i couldn't believe it. my ankles weren't shackled and i'm like, wow, this is real. >> a free man, he spent two years rebuilding his life. he got a job, an apartment, a wife, then just as suddenly in a twist of the criminal justice system, it was all taken away. >> i still cannot adjust being back here. it is difficult. it is difficult. >> deb, it really is a bizarre case. it seems to have cast a lot of doubt on the county, westchester county there in new york. so why was he sent back to prison? >> you know, what happened is, an appeals court judge, the one who overturn