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Aug 2024
28m 33s

The ballerina is guilty. In a San Diego ...

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Ashley Benefield is convicted of manslaughter. Could San Diego police have done more to prevent a murder? And after a third high-profile hung jury in two months, we ask a jury expert what's going on. 
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