The Rodney King case transformed the public debate over police violence in the United States. In 1991, King was beaten by LAPD officers after a car chase in Los Angeles, and the incident was recorded on video by George Holliday. This episode reconstructs the arrest, the impact of the footage, the state trial of the officers, the 1992 acquittals, the Los Angeles riots, and the later federal civil rights trial, which ended with two convictions. A case about racism, use of force, video evidence, juries, and the gap between what society sees and what a court declares proven.

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The Steven Avery case combines two legal stories that are difficult to separate: a wrongful conviction and a later murder conviction. Avery spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2003, and was later accused of murdering photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. This episode reconstructs the investigation, the evidence presented at trial, the civil lawsuit against Manitowoc County, the defense theory of planted evidence, Brendan Dassey’s role, and the impact of Making a Murderer. A case about institutional trust, forensic evidence, reasonable doubt, and justice under suspicion.

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The Eichmann case brought one of the Holocaust’s key administrative organizers to trial. Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi official, was captured in Argentina in 1960 and tried in Jerusalem in 1961 for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. This episode reconstructs his escape, his life under a false identity, the operation that brought him to Israel, the debate over jurisdiction, his defense of following orders, and the testimony of Holocaust survivors. A case about bureaucracy, memory, individual responsibility, and the impossibility of hiding mass crimes behind obedience.

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