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Au Pair Juliana Magalhães Faces Cross-Examination in Banfield Trial | Court of Opinion Podcast

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Former au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães faces intense cross-examination as a key witness in Brendan Banfield’s murder trial involving the deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

0:04.8

Opinions.

0:05.8

All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

0:09.8

Sensitive topics are discussed.

0:11.8

Discretion is advised.

0:14.9

An O'Pair who flipped on her former boss and lover faces cross-examination.

0:20.1

We're breaking down her body language and testimony.

0:22.9

And in Ohio, the jury reaches a verdict in the case

0:26.0

where an elderly man shot an unsuspecting Uber driver

0:29.3

who did the jury believe.

0:31.0

And in Los Angeles, a rideshare driver is claiming assault.

0:34.3

What led to the arrest of 24 and designated survivor actor Kiefer Sutherland.

0:39.4

The court of law is done for the day in those cases. Let's call to order Court of Opinion.

0:49.5

Welcome to Court of Opinion. I'm Julia Jinnay. Thank you for joining us. A jury in Virginia listened to a second day of testimony today from a family's opair turned co-defendant. The defendant that is on trial is Brendan Banfield. He's accused of being the mastermind of an elaborate murder plot to kill his wife by luring a man that he found on a fetish dating website to his house.

1:13.4

Prosecutors say he and the family's live-in nanny, Juliana Magla Hayes.

1:17.8

They were having an affair and that she helped him plot the murders.

1:21.6

From there, prosecutors say Banfield staged the scene to make it look like this other man.

1:25.7

Joseph Ryan stabbed his wife and that Banfield only shot him in self-defense.

1:30.5

But the co-defendant O'Pair, she took the stand to expose her former lover's plan as part of a plea deal that the defense is calling a sweetheart deal.

1:39.8

Let's get you caught up on what you may have missed today from that testimony.

1:53.0

Thank you. get you caught up on what you may have missed today from that testimony. What ultimately made you decide that you were going to enter this plea?

1:58.1

Was the thought of being the right thing to do.

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