'Black Swan' Convicted Murderer Ashley Benefield Could Get A New Trial, As Judge Postpones Sentencing!
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🗓️ 22 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a special report from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | Could the ballerina, the Black Swan ballerina that is known as Ashley Banfield, |
| 0:23.5 | who was convicted of murdering her husband get a new trial? |
| 0:27.8 | The judge who presided over Ashley Benefield's murder trial is currently weighing whether or not the ballerina should get a new trial. |
| 0:35.5 | But emotions hearing on Monday, Benefield's defense, |
| 0:39.9 | when it argued that a juror that was selected to be on that very jury was biased |
| 0:45.2 | and did not disclose information about their past that could have tainted their guilty verdict. |
| 0:51.1 | After hearing the arguments, the judge determined he needed to look at all the court |
| 0:55.2 | filings by both defense and the state about the motion for a new trial before making a ruling. |
| 1:02.5 | Before all of this Benefield sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday, but that has now been |
| 1:07.0 | postponed. Let's go to the courtroom to hear that very hearing where those arguments |
| 1:12.3 | were made. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. We're here in 2020 CF 3014, state of Florida |
| 1:19.6 | versus Ashley Christina Benefield. Ms. Benefield is not present in court. Her presence has been |
| 1:25.0 | waived by her attorneys mr. Taylor and mr. |
| 1:28.3 | Pennell present for the state is miss O'Donnell and miss Freel we're here |
| 1:33.2 | today for the oral arguments closing arguments related to the motion for new |
| 1:41.1 | trial when we were last here mr.nell, you were not able to make it for some reason, so the request was made as opposed to written closings that we do them orally. And it was my understanding that you're going to be doing that. so that's why we continued it or left it on for today. |
| 2:04.7 | Are you ready to go forward? |
| 2:06.6 | I am. I just want to confirm that you also received my written submission. |
| 2:10.9 | All right, so here's what I received recently. |
| 2:19.3 | I have an email from you |
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