sitting through 14 grueling weeks of a family tragedy played out in the courtroom-like theater, the six women and six men on the jury were finally getting the case. >> there was trouble for some of the jurors to get their feelings out of it. there was. >> reporter: the case for some took an emotional toll. for others, it was surreal. >> i mean, every time i would go into the jury room, i couldn't believe that this was real, because the whole situation was so wild. >> reporter: as the jury sifted through the evidence, adam and gabriel polk gave an interview to court tv, hoping to resurrect their fath they said he'd been publicly dragged through the mud ever since his death. >> really, the fact of the matter is that 99% of what went on in court in terms of the muckraking that my mom engaged