. >> robert bailey junior, michael bell, brian pervis, theo shaw - four young men part of a group of defendants known as the jena six. a racially charged case that divided the nation. >> it just happened. >> reporter: the teens were charged with attempted murder then battery following a 2006 schoolyard fight that left a white classmate unconscious. >> i know what i did, but when i heard the term attempted murder, i'm thinking "man, attempted murder,." >> 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 the jena 6. >> anger. i won't say hate red, but a lot of pain. >> reporter: now a 24-year-old student at southern university in baton rouge, bell wants to set the record strait. >> it's important for the country to know what happened with the jenna 6, that they stood up and said they had nothing to do with it, that i did everything. it's important for everywhere to know what happened. if you had a part in it you should have stated that

robert bailey junior jessie ray beard, carr win jones and theo shaw pleaded no contest to battery in 2009. >> it brings back a lot of memories. >> reporter: 25-year-old brian lives in dallas with his son, started a tort company and plans on releasing a book. >> i believe the case was resolve, i don't believe it was justice i fight for adversity. i make new routes. >> robert bailey junior lives in louisiana, near his alma'am arda, gram line university. >> there was no jena 6 he says there was a jenna 1 and feels he was hung out. do you share a similar concern, does that make sense to you where he's coming from is he a scapegoat? >> it made sense if you are in his shoes. you know the issue. he did more time than anybody else. he didn't see what we saw, the 20,000 people on the streets. he didn't see or witness that. he didn't witness the meat of the whole case. he was incarcerated during the media. it will make you feel solitude. >>> bailey a 24-year-old father of two, graduated in may and starts grad school this summer. he says the jena 6 case is behind him. >> i'm not mad at no one a