S3: E5 – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Justin Rutherford

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06/20/24 • 37 min

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Justin goes before the Judge, and Stacey and Tyler face him for the first time since his arrest. Nothing can prepare them for what he says on the stand.

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Justin goes before the Judge, and Stacey and Tyler face him for the first time since his arrest. Nothing can prepare them for what he says on the stand.

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S3: E4 – Him or Me

With Justin behind bars, the Rutherford family tries to move forward. But grief and anxiety loom large. Meanwhile, Justin plots a way out of jail with the help of an unlikely accomplice – his elderly godmother.

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S3: E6 – Complexity

With Justin behind bars and Tyler on a path to healing, Stacey’s grief finally comes to the surface. She meets with Jordan Dann to make sense of the mess.

Jordan Dann, LP, is a dynamic psychoanalyst, author, teacher, and speaker. She is the author of Somatic Therapy for Healing Trauma and the creator of the Relationship Transformation Method. She is also a faculty member at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in Manhattan. Jordan is a nationally certified and NYS licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. You can follow her on Instagram @jordandann.

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Betrayal: Weekly - S3: E5 – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Justin Rutherford

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:01.479

Every defendant has the rights to what we call allocution. They have the right to speak on their own behalf. As a prosecutor, I have seen a lot of defendants gift statements, and I have seen it range. I've seen defendants be apologetic and truly apologetic. I've seen some of them apologize to their own families. But in my opinion, his allocution was one of the weirdest allocutions I've heard in my whole career.

Speaker 200: