accused of having ties to al-qaida and to nuclear facilities in our country, not a combination we want. plus fresh controversy surrounding 60s radical bill a ayers. a group of professionals want to give him a very special honor. we talk with the group that he used to lead. the petit family got the verdict they hoped for in the horrible home invasion murder trial in connecticut. does that mean they ll see this man put to death, ahead. we really thank the jury for their due diligence and careful consideration of the charges in reaching what we feel is an appropriate verdict, and we hope they will continue to use the same diligence and clarity of thought as they consider arguments in the pepbld phase of the trial penalty phase of
we thank the jury for their diligence and consideration of charges in reaching what we feel is appropriate verdict. and we hope they will continue to use the same diligence and clarity of thought as they consider the penalty phase of the trial. there is some relief but my family is still gone. it doesn t bring them back. it doesn t bring back the home that we had. but certainly a guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than builty than a verdict of not guilty. megyn: what are the odds that
things that occurred to her in her life, such as the ms, and i think probably they were all praying for our strength to be able to be here beginning back in january of this year when jury selection began. dr. petit was there any point in this trial where you felt that maybe this outcome wouldn t have turned out the way it did? no, i thought the evidence was fairly overwhelming and i thought mr. derrington and mr. nicholson did a very nice job in presenting the state s case. [unintelligible] i don t know if it was a
reaction. i think the family thought from the beginning that each of the defendants would point the finger at the other defendant as being more culpable so we sort of expected it thee years ago. are you disappointed that one of the counts was not guilty. no. will you going to be able to do it again. you have a penalty phase, another trial, another penalty phase, three more trials? people keep asking that question, why do you do it, or how do you do it. i think m most of you out here, you know, are good human beings, i think that you probably would all do the same thing for your families if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for their family. it s the one thing you can do,
hayes and today is the day of justice for the petit women who have now officially identified one of their killers, that is steven hayes. the family is leaving the courtroom. these are some of the family members. we seat microphones there, do we know if he ll be making a statement? reporter: we ve been sitting outside this courtroom every since this trial began with those microphones. he s only come out to talk very briefly, i believe only twice, once to say it s been a very difficult day, that was when the crime scene photos and the burned out beds of his daughters were shown, one of the worst days of the trial for dr. petit and his family. he came out and folk once more when the other suspect s lawyer came out to say that he didn t want the petit family to believe that the 11-year-old was sexually assaulted in the way