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Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP38 "Motive, Means, And Opportunity"State's closing arguments with their thesis to the jury that Jade Janks ambushed, drugged, strangled and suffocated Tom Merriman to death. The lead prosecutor pushed the jury to take in all the physical and circumstantial evidence they presented. He highlighted the importance of understanding the motive, means and opportunity in this case. According to the stand, Janks had two plans. Plan A was homicide. Plan B was suicide.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP39 "Defense's Final Remarks To Jurors"Jurors listened to the defense's closing arguments. Jade Janks' lead attorney poked holes in the state's case against her especially his main assertion that a homicide in Tom Merriman's death never even happened. Lead defense attorney Marc Carlos dismissed the state's two main claims against her during closing arguments. One, was that Merriman was murdered, and two, that his own stepdaughter collaborated with several men to try to drug, suffocate, and strangle him to death.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP40 "No Proof Of Murder"A murder plot makes no sense was what Marc Carlos, lead defense attorney, during closing arguments. The defense ripped the prosecution's case that Tom Merriman's death was part of a murder plot that involved his stepdaughter-neighbor and several men she tried to recruit as potential hitmen. The defense delivered the final phase of their closing arguments arguing that the state failed to prove not only that Janks was responsible in a premeditated murder but that a homicide even occurred.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP41 "From Verdict To Sentencing"After just a day of deliberations, the jury reached their unanimous verdict. This came after eight days of trial proceedings where the state of California accused Jade Janks of plotting and carrying out the murder of her stepfather. Tom Merriman co-founded a nonprofit focused on the conservation and study of native butterflies. Janks faced life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder.
Taboo Photos Murder Trial
S1, EP42 "Remembering Tom Merriman"This sentencing phase happened over two months after Jade Janks was found guilty of first-degree murder. Ahead of her formal punishment, Judge Robert Kearney heard from family members and close friends to the defendant and the victim, Tom Merriman. Two of Merriman's brothers addressed the court recalling his life and character. The victim's family and supporters pushed for maximum sentence for Janks.
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Deadly Parade Crash Trial
EP34 "From Domestic Disturbance To Violent Road Rage"Immediately after the deadly Christmas parade crash, people wondered was this a case of domestic terrorism and could multiple people be involved?
Deadly Parade Crash Trial
EP36 "Parents of Children Hospitalized"Jurors heard the harrowing details of what survivors experienced that day when six people died and 61 were injured. Jurors listened as parents recalled how their children were injured in the deadly Christmas parade crash.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP64 "Defense Critiques Police Work"The defense critiques the police's handling of key evidence, claiming they actually contaminated it; the attorneys focus on a lack of fingerprinting, officers walking over the bodies, and items moved before and after they were photographed.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP65 "Contaminating Key Evidence"The defense tries to show jurors that the police did not preserve the crime scene as they are legally required to do; Judge Lance Ito allows the jury to visit the crime scene, while O.J. Simpson waives his right to go along.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP66 "Jury Tours Crime Scene"A huge security detail normally reserved for heads of state accompanies the jury on its tour of the condo where O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her friend were killed; the defense drills a police officer about police procedures done at the crime scene.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP88 "Robbery Homicide Division Take Over"One of two lead detectives who took over the case after it was reassigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division testifies for the state; evidence includes a bloody glove, bloody footprints and blood droplets.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP89 "Lead Investigator Testifies"The lead detectives are briefed by the detectives who have been handling the case, make preliminary searches of the entire property noting the clues before police can fully process the area, and begin asking questions to all those involved.
CA v. O.J. Simpson
S1, EP90 "The Beginning of the Investigation"The detectives scramble to get answers as to what happened to Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman; her ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, is out of town and their two children are at the police station.
Deadly Parade Crash Trial
EP20 "Witness Turned Victim"A woman who was injured in the deadly parade crash, Nicole White, testifies; she explains how more than 60 others were injured and six others died that day.
Deadly Parade Crash Trial
EP17 "High School Band Director"Jurors heard about the children and teens affected in the deadly parade crash. The State brought in a high school band director who was leading her students right before the SUV came into the crowd.