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Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP39 "Washington v. Haq"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.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP41 "Oregon v. Worthington"When 15-month-old Ava Worthington became ill with a cold, her parents Carl and Raylene did what they always did, and insisted the power of prayer was the only cure she needed.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP44 "State's Rebuttal Case"The State's rebuttal case was underway. This would be the last attempt by them to convince the jury to recommend the death penalty for Scott Nelson in the murder of Jennifer Fulford. Prosecutors brought in a mental health expert who evaluated him. Three different doctors testified for the Defense's case claiming Nelson had mitigating factors that led him to murder which included serious cognitive impairment. Prosecutors wanted to challenge those assertions.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP45 "Personality-Driven Criminal Behavior"Was it a major mental illness that caused Scott Nelson to kill Jennifer Fulford or was it personalty-driven? In the State's rebuttal, a forensic psychologist, who evaluated the defendant, concluded that his actions was due to flaw in his character. Dr. Greg Prichard dismissed Nelson's mental illness diagnosis concluding instead that he dealt with personality disorders that produced poor character flaws leading him to criminal behavior including the murder of this nanny.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP46 "Conduct Disorder"Dr. Greg Prichard, a forensic psychologist, answered questions under cross-examination. The Defense challenged his claim that Scott Nelson did not suffer from any mental illness at the time he killed Jennifer Fulford. Dr. Prichard remained steadfast in his claim that Nelson's criminal behavior revealed a mix of personality issues of bad character traits. The mental health expert went on to say that Nelson exaggerated his time behind bars in federal prison.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP47 "Antisocial Behavior"Cross-examination continued on the State's mental health expert who dismissed the diagnosis that the defendant suffered mental illness when he killed Jennifer Fulford. The State wanted to show the jury that aggravating factors not mitigating factors was the culprit in these alleged crimes. According to psychologist Dr. Greg Prichard, Scott Nelson had the opportunity to do better and stay away from the same prison system that he hated.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP48 "Aggravating Factors"In the State's closing arguments, the prosecutor highlighted key aggravating factors that led to Jennifer Fulford's death. It included a cold, calculated plan for murder and the defendant's violent criminal past. According to the prosecution team, Scott Nelson committed this murder so he can have his day in Court where the world will finally hear his grievances on what he had to go through in the federal criminal justice system.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP49 "Kidnap, Torture And Murder"During the State's long closing argument, jurors were retold the timeline of events that led to Jennifer Fulford's murder. The prosecutor reminded the jury how in a short period of time on one fateful morning Nelson kidnapped, carjacked, robbed, and then killed this 56-year-old nanny. Torture was one of the aggravating factors prosecutors claimed led to this murder. The State hoped the same jury that convicted Nelson of murder would also recommend that he faced the death penalty.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP33 "Arizona v. Falater"Scott Falater claims he was sleepwalking when he brutally stabbed and drowned his wife and the mother of his children.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP26 "Arizona v. Johnson"At one point, Baby Gabriel's mother Elizabeth Johnson claimed she killed him; at another, she said that she gave him to a mysterious couple in Texas.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP23 "Intention To Rob And Kill"Scott Nelson's defense team delivered their closing arguments to jurors in his murder trial. His lawyer claimed Nelson never premeditated the suffocating and stabbing Death of Jennifer Fulford. Therefore, he argued this wasn't felony murder. But later, prosecutors reminded jurors that Scott Nelson brought and used duct tape and zip ties to intentionally rob and kill this innocent nanny. Jurors would have the last say on what was really on Nelson's mind before he attacked Fulford.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP24 "Verdict"After just four hours of deliberations, the jury rendered their verdict in Scott Nelson's role in Jennifer Fulford's death. Next, the life of a once homeless drifter and former-felon-turned-murderer was now in the hands of these jurors. The death penalty phase was underway and this same jury who convicted Nelson of murder would decide if he should be executed by the state of Florida.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP25 "Aggravating Factors"Cold, calculated, and premeditated were the aggravating factors prosecutors contended led Scott Nelson to kill Jennifer Fulford. In their opening statements in his penalty phase, the prosecution team pushed for him to be executed by the state of Florida. Next, a victim of an earlier crime he was accused of testified against Nelson. She was a bank teller for the time he attempted to rob her branch with a fake bomb. Jurors were learning more of Nelson's violent criminal past.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP26 "Bank Robberies"Bank robberies was on Scott Nelson's resume years before he graduated to being a convicted killer in Jennifer Fulford's death. Prosecutors brought in two cases of him when he attempted to rob bank branches with threats of a bomb and a gun. Prior acts and aggravated factors are key elements prosecutors wanted to use against Nelson in their attempt to persuade jurors to recommend he face the death penalty.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP27 "Victim-Impact Statements"Prosecutors turned the jury's attention to victim-impact statements. First up, was Jennifer Fulford's daughter who testified remotely for the jury. Next was her son. Fulford was killed on the same exact Day her granddaughter was born. Emotions filled this courtroom when jurors and the Gallery Heard both her daughter and son talk about their painful grief in losing their mother.
Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
S1, EP28 "Remembering Jennifer Fulford"Stipulations from written statements and court testimony took over trial proceedings. This was his death penalty phase where prosecutors were presenting evidence to the jury in Scott Nelson's role in killing Jennifer Fulford, a woman he never met before. Prosecutors recalled the chief medical examiner back to the stand. Jurors listened to graphic detail again on how Fulford lost her life from suffocation and multiple stab wounds to her body.