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Judgment Of The Synagogue Shooter With Ashleigh Banfield

TV-14 | Judgement with Ashleigh Banfield | Season 1 | 2026

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 of murder?

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