Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield

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This new weekly signature newsmagazine series will bring viewers storytelling at its best from the archives of the Court TV library, incorporating the most popular cases in the vault past and present that have captured national attention.
Florida v. Anthony
S1 E1

The mystery surrounding the death of Caylee Anthony grips the nation; the only thing more shocking than the testimony is the verdict itself.

Arizona v. Arias
S1 E2

The discovery of Travis Alexander's body, stabbed, slit and shot in the neck, shocked his friends and family; Arizona police charge his girlfriend Jodi Arias with his murder.

Florida v. Sievers
S1 E3

Mark Sievers thought he had arranged the perfect murder when he hired a childhood friend and another man to murder his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers; his best laid plan started falling apart when someone he trusted the most turned on him.

Nevada v. Simpson
S1 E4

Years after being found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson was back in a courtroom and again facing felony charges.

Texas v. Mowbray
S1 E5

Ten years after being found guilty of the murder of her husband, Susie Mowbray's conviction was overturned, and she would once again face a jury of her peers.

Texas v. Mallard
S1 E6

While driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Chante Mallard allegedly struck pedestrian Gregory Biggs, impaling him in the windshield; what she did and didn't do next, is what turned a terrible accident into a shocking case of murder.

Texas v. Guyger
S1 E7

Off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger found Botham Jean in her apartment; the only thing more shocking than the revelations of Botham Jean's murder was the act of forgiveness at the end of the trial.

Florida v. Carlton
S1 E8

Tommy Carlton owed his ex-wife Elizabeth $85,000 in back child support; so he allegedly paid a hit man $2,000 to make her go away permanently; the hit man was an undercover cop and Elizabeth helped stage her demise.

Florida v. Wuornos
S1 E9

Aileen Wuornos sold her body to survive; this generated a deep-seeded rage for those who would pay for her services which allegedly resulted in the deaths of seven Florida men.

Florida v. Nelson
S1 E10

When ex-con Scott Nelson looked at middle-aged nanny Jennifer Fulford he allegedly saw a target for his rage; Nelson had other plans when he entered the courtroom for his trial.

Florida v. Coday
S1 E11

William Coday fell in love with Columbian immigrant Gloria Gomez; when he lived in Germany, he'd thought he had a similar love; Gloria Gomez's life would come to a similarly brutal end.

California v. Spector
S1 E12

No one knows why actress Lana Clarkson decided to go to music producer Phil Spector's home for a nightcap, but they do know that by the end of the night she was dead; Spector claims she committed suicide, but the evidence says otherwise.

California v. Lyle and Erik Menendez
S1 E13

People couldn't imagine what made Erik and Lyle Menendez brutally murder their parents; the prosecution said it was greed and the defense said something much darker; a family secret that would shock and grip the nation.

California v. Murray
S1 E14

Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray took an oath to first do no harm, but that's exactly what prosecutors say Murray did when Jackson died from an overdose of a powerful anesthesia drug.

California v. Bardo
S1 E15

Rebecca Schaeffer was talented, pretty, and had her whole life ahead of her when she unknowingly opened the door of her Hollywood apartment to her killer Robert Bardo; Bardo's lawyers say his mental illness caused him to snap.

Florida v. Hartung
S1 E16

The murders of Voncile Smith and her sons John and Richard set Pensacola, Florida on edge; the courts try to decide if this was an occult ritual or something much more basic: greed.

New Jersey v. Ravi
S1 E17

Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi had only been roommates for few weeks when Ravi decided to secretly film Tyler kissing another man; soon after, Clementi took his own life and Ravi faced surprising criminal charges.

Florida v. Benayer
S1 E18

As the saying goes, he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. But in the case of Marc Benayer, who shot a man in his synagogue parking lot, was he a fool, or did his mental illness affect whether the jury would find him guilty?

Florida v. Dippolito
S1 E19

Mark Dippolito couldn't believe it when the police told him his new bride Dalia had hired a hitman to have him killed; he was even more surprised when she claimed in court that it was his idea.

Florida v. Ferrell
S1 E20

As shocking as the brutal double murder committed by vampire obsessed teenaged Rod Ferrell was, nobody expected him to plead guilty at the start of his trial, leaving just the monumental question of how young is too young for the death penalty.

New Jersey v. McGuire
S1 E21

Melanie McGuire made a living bringing life into the world as a fertility clinic nurse; the police accused her of shooting her husband, dismembering his body and disposing of it in suitcases dumped into the Chesapeake Bay.

New Jersey v. Neulander
S1 E22

Rabbi Fred Neulander was a pillar of his Cherry Hill, New Jersey community - the founder of a synagogue, a father and a husband. Little did anyone know, he was also an adulterer, one capable of hiring a hitman to murder his own wife.

California v. Sommer
S1 E23

Cynthia Sommer's world was turned upside down when her 23-year-old husband Todd died; nearly five years later she was under arrest and accused of poisoning him.

California v. Powell
S1 E24

For the four LAPD cops who beat Rodney King with batons, it may have been business as usual; but then the world learned that it had been captured on video, and those 81 seconds changed everything.