Watch Justice on Trial

To mark the 100th Anniversary of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate this landmark case. John Thomas Scopes, a high school teacher, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee law prohibiting teaching any explanation for the creation of the earth other than the account in the Book of Genesis. By teaching Charles Darwin

Is inflammatory speech protected under the 1st Amendment? Judge Judy Sheindlin and her team recreate trials pitting the father of a deceased Marine against the Westboro Baptist Church, a group known for publicly protesting the inclusion of marginalized groups in public institutions. They picketed Albert Snyder

Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate the case of Leonardo Turriago, who confessed to brutally killing a rival over a drug dispute. Troopers stopped Turriago for a speeding violation on the New York State Thruway, which led police to an unexpected and grim discovery in the back of his truck: a decomposing body locked in a steamer trunk. But was the search of the truck legal? This case examines the delicate balance between police search powers and constitutional privacy protections. The Troopers claim they asked to search the back of Turriago

Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate the infamous trials of Clarence Gideon, a Florida man accused in 1963 of burglarizing a pool hall. Forced to represent himself in court due to a Florida law that only the mentally incompetent and those accused of a capital crime can be appointed an attorney, Gideon was found guilty. This sparked a legal battle that changed American judicial system. While in prison, possessing only an 8th grade education, he successfully appealed to the Supreme Court that the 14th Amendment

In part 2 of the story of Jeffrey Deskovic, after being exonerated of assault and murder following 16 years in prison, he fights back with a civil suit. Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate this trial to examine the limits of police and prosecutor liability in wrongful conviction cases. Once Deskovic was exonerated by the Innocence Project, who proved the DNA taken from the victim matched a convicted killer, he sues for damages, namely against the administrator of the fake polygraph test that caused him to falsely confess. Next, the prosecutor who convicted Deskovic after knowing his DNA wasn

Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate the trial of Jeffrey Deskovic, a 16-year-old high school student charged with murdering and assaulting his classmate, Angela Correa. As detectives investigated, they immediately focused on Deskovic as their prime suspect, employing the

Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team recreate the chilling case of Archie Dixon, who, along with an accomplice, Timothy Hoffner, confessed to brutally murdering his roommate and burying him alive to profit from selling his car. After murdering Chris Hammer, Dixon forged a driver

Judge Judy Sheindlin and her expert legal team revisit one of the most personal and complex cases of her career