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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.
S1, EP19 "New Jersey v. Ravi"
Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi had only been roommates for a 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.
S1, EP20 "Florida v. Hartung"
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.
S1, EP21 "Florida v. Benayer"
As the saying goes, he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client; 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?
S1, EP22 "Florida v. Ferrell"
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.
S1, EP26 "California v. Manson"
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.
S1, EP25 "California v. Powell"
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.
S1, EP23 "Florida v. Dippolito"
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.
S1, EP18 "New Jersey v. McGuire"
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.