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Judgment Of The Beating Of Rodney King With Ashleigh Banfield

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

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. Soon after came a headline grabbing trial that forced the nation to address long simmering racial justice issues that continue today.

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Judgment Of Dalia Dippolito With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of OJ Simpson With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Talk Show Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

Scott Amendure thought the Jenny Jones Show was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him. Three days later, Schmitz...

Judgment Of The Insurance Money Murder With Ashleigh Banfield

Ten years after being found guilty of the murder of her husband, Susie Mowbray's conviction was overturned, and she would once again face a jury of her peers. W...

Judgment Of The Blue Moon Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

The murders of Voncile Smith and her sons John and Richard set Pensacola, Florida on edge. Was it an occult ritual? Or related to secret government work? Or was...

Judgment Of Reverend Foos With Ashleigh Banfield

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 reve...

Judgment Of The Antifreeze Murder With Ashleigh Banfield

Julie Jensen suspected her husband and the father of her children Mark Jensen wanted her dead, so she put pen to paper telling the world just that. But will Mar...

Judgment Of Dr. Jack Kevorkian With Ashleigh Banfield

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 mur...

Judgment Of The Firefighter Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

Harry Beck thought he was doing the right thing when he agreed to talk to his brother Dave's on-again off-again girlfriend Kimberly Passwaters about their relat...

Judgment Of The Hit-And-Run Murder With Ashleigh Banfield

While under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Chante Mallard struck pedestrian Gregory Biggs with her car, impaling him in the windshield. What she chose to d...

Judgment Of The Synagogue Shooter With Ashleigh Banfield

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, wa...

Judgment Of Casey Anthony With Ashleigh Banfield

The mystery surrounding the death of little Caylee Anthony gripped the nation. Was she the victim of her neglectful, party-girl mother Casey, or was a darker fa...

Judgment Of The Teacher Turned Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

Nancy Seaman never denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet. The question is, did she plan it or was the murder a desperate attempt to save her own life...

Judgment Of Phil Spector With Ashleigh Banfield

No one knows why actress Lana Clarkson decided to go to music producer Phil Spector's home for a nightcap, but they do know that by the end of the night she was...

Judgment Of The Jewish Center Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

No one argued that Naveed Haq suffered from mental health issues when he walked into the Seattle Jewish Federation office and started shooting, wounding six wom...

Judgment Of The Followers OF Christ Part 2 With Ashleigh Banfield

Prosecutors said the death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley was completely preventable; so much so his parents were charged with criminally negligent homicide. As me...

Judgment Of The Poisoned Marine Murder With Ashleigh Banfield

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....

Judgment Of The Vampire Clan With Ashleigh Banfield

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 t...

Judgment Of The Transgender Murder With Ashleigh Banfield

Friends and family of Angie Zapata say she never hid from the men she dated that she was a transgender woman. Michael Andrade claims she did and that the revela...

Judgment Of Mary Kay Letourneau With Ashleigh Banfield

Some called it a love affair. Others, a crime. The shocking story that 34-year-old married schoolteacher and mom Mary Kay Letourneau was having sex with a 12-ye...

Judgment Of Dharun Ravi With Ashleigh Banfield

Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi had only been roommates for few weeks when Ravi decided to secretly film Tyler kissing another man. Soon after, ...

Judgment Of Rabbi Neulander With Ashleigh Banfield

Rabbi Fred Neulander was a pillar of his Cherry Hill, New Jersey community – the founder of a synagogue, a father and a husband. Little did anyone know, h...

Judgment Of The Followers OF Christ Part 1 With Ashleigh Banfield

When 15-month-old Ava Worthington became ill with a cold, her parents Carl and Raylene did what they always did – relied on the tenets of the Followers of...

Judgment Of Kellen Winslow Jr. With Ashleigh Banfield

With a beautiful wife, loving family and plenty of money in the bank, NFL star Kellen Winslow II seemingly had it all when he left the game behind. But then fiv...

Judgment Of Dr. Conrad Murray With Ashleigh Banfield

Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray took an oath to first do no harm. But that's exactly what prosecutors say Murray did when Jackson died from an o...

Judgment Of The Beating Of Rodney King With Ashleigh Banfield

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 ...

Judgment Of The Love Triangle Murderer With Ashleigh Banfield

Police dispatcher Shawna Nelson thought she had committed the perfect crime when she shot her romantic rival Heath Garraus execution style, but she underestimat...

Judgment Of The Beating Of Frank Jude Jr. With Ashleigh Banfield

Frank Jude nearly lost his life when a group of drunken off-duty Milwaukee police officers brutalized him over a missing badge. But his real fight would be taki...

Judgment Of Aileen Wuornos With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of Melanie McGuire With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Menendez Brothers With Ashleigh Banfield

People couldn't imagine what made Erik and Lyle Menendez brutally murder their parents. The prosecution said it was greed. The defense said something much darke...

Judgment Of Charles Manson With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Murder-For-Hire Masquerade With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of Scott Nelson With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Cop Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Hollywood Stalker With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of Amber Guyger With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The "Sleepwalking Killer" With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Valedictorian Turned Murderer With Ashleigh Banfield

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Judgment Of The Armored Car Killer With Ashleigh Banfield

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 ...

Judgment Of "Evil Twin" Jeena Han With Ashleigh Banfield

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