Trial Watch

Trials featured in today's episode include a judge sentencing a child abuser to forced birth control as a contingent of probation, a custody battle stretching from a besieged mother and her scheming husband who takes their sons to Pakistan without her consent, and a female car dealer whose termination at work she attributes to gender discrimination.

The latest installment in this law-based series features segments on victims of a snowstorm whose entrapment led to amputations, a Brooklyn anti-drug activist whose wife was brutally murdered in response to his hostility towards drug dealers, as well as pieces on debt management & Arsenio Hall's ill-fated diner. All this & more this week on trial Watch!

The latest installment in this law-based series features a woman in a sexless marriage who accidentally shot her husband to death when he entered the home under the cover of darkness, a farmer couple who attributes their operation's hardships to the local power utility, & the world bubblegum champion who was arrested for popping a bubble in court.

Today's episode of Trial Watch follows such contemporary issues as a schizophrenic man who committed murder whilst playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons and was sentenced to death, a neighborhood man who took matters into his own hands and shot into a car full of alleged drug dealers for what he claimed was the protection of his neighborhood, and a rising college athlete whose life is cut short and his family's future is left hanging in limbo.

The completely true law stories relayed in the latest episode depict an elderly psychiatrist known for a sketchy history involved in the hiring of a hitman and the sale of hard drugs, and two brothers involved with union organizers whose former president had placed an international hit on their lives.

The hosts of Trial Watch dedicate this latest installment to segments on ninja-style bank robbers wreaking havoc on Albuquerque banks, and Brian Wilson's recent alleged brainwashing and hostage-like situation with an allegedly hostile live-in psychologist.

The latest installment of Trial Watch focuses on such gripping legal cases as a serial killer who put hits on his own family to redeem an insurance policy, a high school teacher encouraged by the football coach to cook a failing athlete's grades so that he is eligible to play ball, and a court entirely dedicated to dogs' and other domestic animals' alleged crimes.

Trial Watch takes on a variety of legal cases including a fast car collision between two separately drunk drivers, and an American mother's year-long battle to retrieve her sons from their questionable father's unlawful abduction and resettlement in Pakistan.

Today's series of law-based segments include an 11-month-old baby allegedly killed by the inadvertent folly of shaken baby syndrome and who can be held liable, a con man with an infamous reputation for seducing and taking advantage of unassuming women before robbing them clean of everything they owned, a potential murder suspect who did not believe himself to be guilty yet acknowledged he was high on PCP the night of the crime and did not remember his whereabouts.

Cases covered in this episode of Trial Watch include a kidnapping and murder of a young boy in Nevada and the falsely accused suspect who had to fight to prove his alibi of being miles away on the day of the crime, a journalist who finds himself in over his head with a trial alleging his role in a prostitution ring after attempting to allegedly write a piece on the industry, and a dog who has to fight the legal system to be place on parole to avoid euthanasia.

Legal cases included in this installment a shocking murder of a young boy that turns its small town upside down as investigators struggle to piece together the sketchy confessions of four young men alleged to have been present at the scene of the crime, a woman whose date turns sour and decided to sue her companion for allegedly not paying his fair share of the rendezvous, and an underage gambler who was denied a million dollar jackpot he won due to his age restriction.

Take an in-depth look into such unbelievable trials as one of a man who knew of his best friend's illegalities, was therefor an accomplice, and conceited to kill himself, as well as segments on the now-adult child actors from international hit TV show The Little Rascals suing the owners of the rights to their show for unpaid royalties, and an adoptive step-father who denies any financial obligations to what is in reality his wife's daughter even after their separation.

Today's episode focuses on the legal cases of a woman who murdered her husband by tampering with his medications and proceeded to tamper with super market produce to do the same to indiscriminate strangers, a man whose murdered wife's family have slandered him and his name by accusing him, and a female concertgoer who is ejected and fined for using the men's restroom.

Today's package of legal cases include stories of a war veteran who returned home to Detroit only to be murdered on his first night home, an undercover officer whose assignment brought her inside a prison and allegedly caused traumatic stress, and a lawsuit brought by the company that produces Barbie dolls against a fellow toy company using its likeness to Barbie as a marketing ploy.

Trial Watch includes a slew of interesting contemporary court cases, such as ones featuring a teenage couple who tries to reclaim their baby after they prematurely gave it up for adoption, a mother whose son's abrupt suicide strikes her as being a homicide disguised as a suicide, Joe Piscopo's ex-wife sues him for a cash percentage of his celebrity status, & a question of sex obligations by law in marriage.

Today's unusual legal cases include stories of a surrogate mother suing for the right to her biological child after the adoptive parents' marriage falls apart, and a bank robber who killed his apprehending FBI agent and fled the country to Mexico before being caught and sentenced.

Robin Leach hosts a special episode dedicated to Hollywood crime and the celebrity romanticism that comes when Hollywood goes on trial, featuring segments focusing on the infamous Menendez Brothers who brutally murdered their parents in cold blood out of selfish hatred, as well as the legal basis for paparazzi and their questionably unethical tactics, and even a woman whose investment in a commodity associated with Olivia Newton-John is putting her family's future in jeopardy.

Robin Leach returns to the studio to guest host the week's worth of Hollywood-themed legal cases, including stories of Hollywood's most prominent stuntman's untimely death due to the alleged negligence of his production, a backup vocalist who accuses Paul Abdul and her record company of unfairly denying a ghost vocalist her earned royalties for her contributions, and Groucho Marx' widow who has been accused of swindling him out of his money in his final years.

Robin Leach continues his guest hosting residency on Trial Watch with focused segments on the real life story behind the fictitious reenactment of the protagonist's life in the film Goodfellas, a photographer who claims Sylvester Stallone chased him at high speeds and threatened to injure or even kill him, and the voice actress of Bart Simpson suing her highly successful show for a share of the profits involving her voice's likeness.