Welcome to Pretty Lies and Alibis. Let's seek the truth and travel the long road to justice together. What you know, alabiers, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and alabies.

I'm Gigi.

Good to have you here.

It's Monday.

The state rested in the Ashley Benafield trial today.

Rebuttal in the morning, closings in the afternoon. We will be streaming it live

and then we will be on verdict watch. I'm going to keep a clock going so that everybody can still stay in chat while we're waiting for that jury to come back.

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Music fact of the day, what was the biggest concert of the 1970s?

That would be the summer jam at Watkins Glen.

That was on July 28th 1973 600,000 people attended and only three bands were playing

the Alman Brothers Band the Grateful Dead the Band. That would have been a good one.

So the first witness on the stand today is Bruce Ferris. He is a licensed

mental health counselor.

He's an expert court witness for domestic violence cases.

Just to note, he did not treat Ashley or Doug at any point.

He shows this power of control wheel and it has different elements of abuse.

They talk about economic abuse, preventing her from getting or keeping a job,

making her ask for money, giving her an allowance, taking

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