you were in the courtroom. what was the emotion like there? i can only imagine. >> reporter: yeah, anderson, you know, it was so emotional that the judge started crying at one point, as soon as david ranta walked into that courtroom, his family members were just overcome with emotion. in particular, his daughter, priscilla, was 2 years old when her father was arrested. these family members have had their hopes dashed before so they were very nervous going into this hearing. >> if david ranta didn't kill the rabbi, who did? >> reporter: well, a woman had come forward in the 1990s to say that her husband had admitted to killing the rabbi, but her husband had been killed in a car accident not long after the murder. now, ranta's initial attorney said that he used that information to try and get the conviction overturned in the mid '90s and that didn't work. he said that there were questions about credibility that were raised, and now those