TV Lawyer's Role Reversal

Celebrity defense lawyer Daniel Horowitz is now talking in public about his wife's murder.

He doesn't appear to be a suspect but he says it's hard to be in the same spotlight as some of his clients, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

Horowitz stopped briefly Tuesday at the estate he shared with his wife, Pamela Vitale. The two were staying in a mobile home on the grounds, deep in the hills outside San Francisco, while a hilltop mansion was being built for them.

Horowitz discovered Vitale's body at the mobile home Saturday. He says he can't return to live in the mansion.

The legal commentator was back on television Tuesday, this time with the painful story of finding his own wife murdered. He told CNN's Nancy Grace, "It didn't matter anymore what was around her, the horror. I just had so much time with Pamela. I just looked at her face, and it was beautiful." Then he broke down on camera.

He told Grace he knew he'd be treated as a suspect when investigators arrived.

"I kept saying, 'Can I say goodbye to my wife one more time? Can I just walk over there?" he said. "And they kept saying, 'You just can't.' (I'd ask), 'Why?' (And they'd respond), 'It's a crime scene.' "

As a defense attorney, Horowitz has been battling in court with the Contra Costa County sheriff's department, which is now investigating his wife's murder.

That's one reason a mistrial was called in the murder trial of Susan Polk. She has admitted stabbing her husband to death, but claims it was self-defense. Horowitz had been defending her in the courtroom, and in media interviews.

Now, Polk remains in jail awaiting a new trial, and possibly a new attorney.

She told "Inside Edition" that, "There are times in our lives when we really have to look at what we have to do and not just think of ourselves and, really, I am thinking about Mr. Horowitz right now, and his wife and their family."

And, Blackstone says, Horowitz is faced with finding the answers in a murder case that is entirely personal.