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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.
Just weeks after a jury found four LAPD officers innocent of brutally beating Rodney King, the LAPD was once again put in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
When Charlie Manson and members of his family were given the death penalty for the Helter Skelter murders, people thought their reign of terror was over, but then California overturned the death penalty, making parole an option.
Gina and Sunny Han's rivalry was so intense it led to a murder plot and trial filled with twists and turns that have to be seen to be believed.
Emotions ran high in the days following the Nov. 11, 2001 attack on the U.S.; for the most part, the grief and anger brought people together but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.
Mary Kay Letourneau, 34-year-old married schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12-year-old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world; it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.
No one argued that Naveed Haq suffered from mental health issues; he walked into the Seattle Jewish Federation office, started shooting, wounding six women and killing one; the jury has to decide if his mental health issues make it less of a crime.
Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian thought it was an act of mercy to help over 130 terminally ill patients die a peaceful, pain-free death; Michigan prosecutors said it was murder and spent years trying to get a jury to agree with them.