Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's award-winning podcast "Breakdown," tells deeply human stories about the Georgia justice system. Season 11 explores how a young military couple found themselves at the center of something neither expected. Something terrible. Something… criminal.

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S06_Ep4: Deliberation
The state's case isn't perfect; it may not even be good enough
36 min
77
S06_Ep5: The Verdict
Time to decide: The final episode of Season 6 of Breakdown.
45 min
78
S06, Ep1: A Jury of His Peers
Kevin Riley, editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, goes deep inside a double-murder case in Atlanta.
24 min
79
S07, Ep8: The State Strikes Back
45 min
80
S07, Ep9: The verdict
52 min
81
S07, Ep7: Three eyewitnesses
29 min
82
S07, Ep5: A trial run
29 min
83
S07, Ep6: Unarmed. Unclothed. Unable to Harm?
40 min
84
S07, Ep4: Policing a mental health crisis
28 min
85
S07, Ep3: 'Impervious to pain, superhuman stren...
32 min
86
S07, Ep2: The road to indictment
34 min
87
S07, Ep1: 'They're here to help me'
29 min
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S08, Ep. 19: Life in prison
Bill Rankin and Asia Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution look at the emotional sentencing hearing for the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
57 min
89
S08 Ep20: Jackie Johnson goes to trial
AJC journalists Tamar Hallerman and Shaddi Abusaid examine the trial of former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson
19 min
90
S08, Ep. 16: 'We don't want any more Black past...
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution's Bill Rankin, Asia Burns and Shaddi Abusaid follow detail-by-detail, the first week of testimony in the case of the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick
57 min
91
S08, Ep. 17: Ahmaud Arbery's killer takes the w...
80 min
92
S08, Ep. 15: 11 white jurors, one Black juror
58 min
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S08, Ep. 18: 'We have a verdict'
The 18th episode of Season 8 of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast covers the verdict’s outcome and its aftermath.
72 min
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S08, Ep3: How Georgia lets citizens arrest fell...
41 min
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S08, Ep. 9: Is Ahmaud's imperfect past relevant?
49 min
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S08, Ep. 7: The immediate aftermath
39 min
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S08, Ep. 6: The McMichaels plead for bond
49 min
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S08, Ep1: The Ahmaud Arbery case
46 min
99
S08, Ep2: Preliminary Hearing
35 min
100
S9 Ep. 31: What’s next?
In the final episode of this season’s Breakdown, AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman examine the recent federal indictment against former President Donald Trump in Washington and look ahead to what is about to happen in Fulton County.
33 min