could do as good a job as she could. >> reporter: carol pogash is a journalist who lives in the orinda hills home and has covered the case from the very beginning. >> she was convinced that this was her only chance to speak out and she was going to say what she had to say, and she wouldn't give in. >> reporter: and especially to a prosecutor susan polk seemed to despise. >> susan polk really hated paul sequeira, and at times paul sequeira, the d.a., really hated susan polk. >> she'd say i was a baby. she'd say i was a liar. >> reporter: cameras were not allowed in the courtroom, but the drama inside was more bizarre than any fiction. polk accused the prosecutor and the judge of conspiring against her. she objected hundreds and hundreds of times, demanding almost daily a mistrial. >> probably the most memorable thing she said about the judge was the judge was trying to explain to her the law saying you're arguing apples and oranges. and she said oh, judge, that's your problem, this is a murder trial and you think it's about fruit. >> reporter: but sometimes says prosecutor sequeira she was a