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Breakdown

Veteran AJC journalist Bill Rankin presses on to expose injustices in this award-winning true crime podcast. He pores over trial transcripts and court records to break down the story and the criminal justice system.

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 20: It’s All Politics

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 19: The Referee

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 18: Eastman’s Prophecy

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 17: What Trump Knew

Coverage of the Trump Grand Jury

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Trump probe: How would the Fulton County special grand jury work?

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Key players in the Fulton DA’s Trump probe

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Fulton DA’s Trump probe enters more combative phase

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Flynn to testify today before Fulton grand jury

Florida appeals court directs Flynn to testify before Fulton grand jury

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 20: It’s All Politics

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S.C. court directs Meadows to appear before Fulton grand jury

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Season 9 — The Trump Grand Jury

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‘Breakdown — The Trump Grand Jury’ Ep. 1: The Jan. 2 phone call

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‘Breakdown’ Episode. 2: ‘A force of nature’

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‘Breakdown’ Ep. 3: ‘Is There a Criminal Case?’

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‘Breakdown’ Ep. 4: ‘A Guilty Mind?’

Season 8 — The Ahmaud Arbery case

‘Breakdown’ S08, Ep.1 : The Ahmaud Arbery case begins

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‘Breakdown’ S08 Ep.2: Defendants in Arbery case get their day in court

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‘Breakdown’ S08 Ep. 3: How Georgia lets citizens arrest fellow citizens

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‘Breakdown’ S08, Ep. 4: Father and son

Season 7 — Judgment Call

‘Breakdown’ S07, Ep. 1: ‘They’re here to help me’

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‘Breakdown’ S07 Ep. 2: The road to indictment

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‘Breakdown’ S07 Ep. 3: ‘Impervious to pain, superhuman strength’

‘Breakdown’ S07 Ep. 4: Policing a mental health crisis

Season 6 — A Jury of His Peers

‘Breakdown’ S06, Ep. 1: A Jury of His Peers

‘Breakdown’ S06, Ep. 2: Voice of a killer?

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‘Breakdown’ S06, Ep. 3: A trial by jury

‘Breakdown’ S06, Ep. 4: Deliberation

Season 5 — The McIver Murder Case

‘Breakdown’ S05 Ep. 1: The Tex McIver case

‘Breakdown’ S05 Ep. 2: Whirlwind romance, storybook wedding, tragic death

‘Breakdown’ S05 Ep. 2.5: McIver trial delayed, with fireworks

‘Breakdown’ S05, Ep. 3: Muddy Waters

Season 4 — Murder Below the Gnat Line

‘Breakdown’ S04, Ep. 1: Was the right man convicted in South Georgia murder?

‘Breakdown’ S04, Ep. 2: Two key witnesses change their stories

‘Breakdown’ S04, Ep. 3: A murder and a mask

‘Breakdown’ S04, Ep. 4: ‘You will die in prison, never to be released’

Season 3 — Predator, M.D.

‘Breakdown’ S03 Ep. 1: Predator, M.D.

‘Breakdown’ S03, Ep. 2: Allegations dogged doctor for decades, went unheeded

‘Breakdown’ S03, Ep. 3: Why would a doctor abuse his patients?

‘Breakdown’ S03, Ep. 4: Doctor relocates his practice, and his problem

Season 2 — Death in a Hot Car

‘Breakdown’ S02 Ep. 1: Death in a Hot Car — Mistake or Murder?

‘Breakdown’ S02 Ep. 2: Did the police get the evidence right?

‘Breakdown’ S02 Ep. 3: Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged

‘Breakdown’ S02 Ep. 4: Deciding the case before it begins?

Season 1 — Railroad Justice in a Railroad Town

‘Breakdown’ S01 Ep.1: Railroad justice in a railroad town

‘Breakdown’ S01 Ep. 2: Public defender lost but never gave up

‘Breakdown’ S01 Ep. 3: The view from the stoop, a botched appeal

‘Breakdown’ S01 Ep. 4: Interlude--Of prison riots and mountain trackers

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