Laken Snelling's sentencing anchors COURT TV's courtroom week
The former Kentucky student-athlete received a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
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Former Cheerleader Laken Snelling Sentenced for Infant’s Death
A guilty plea, followed by sentencing, supplied COURT TV's most-watched new upload: "Former Cheerleader Laken Snelling Sentenced for Infant's Death." The report covers the former University of Kentucky student-athlete's sentence for the death of her newborn son, bringing a completed stage of that case into a week otherwise filled with ongoing proceedings.
The upload reached roughly 270,000 views and also has the strongest daily viewing momentum on the channel. In the comments, the length of the sentence dominates the discussion, with courtroom noise drawing attention too.
Alex Murdaugh's pretrial hearing received both a live broadcast and a separate excerpt focused on ballistics. The excerpt covers the judge's denial of defense requests for new shell-casing testing and a list of similar shootings, alongside an order requiring prosecutors to provide raw ballistic data and images to a defense expert. Those are distinct decisions, something the shorter upload gives viewers room to examine apart from the full hearing.
Elsewhere, Vinnie Politan's investigation examines statements Naresh Bhatt made after Mamta Bhatt disappeared. That report and medical-examiner testimony in a Wisconsin child-death trial are also among the channel's busiest videos right now.
Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while daily views are running above their usual level. COURT TV's new-upload slate remains rooted in two complementary formats: extended courtroom access and shorter reports that isolate a ruling, testimony or sentence.
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- Channel
- COURT TV
- Subscribers
- 2,490,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 9,156,285
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 16, 2026
- Video views so far
- 270,624
- Views on its first day
- 198,808
The numbers
Here is COURT TV's week in views and subscribers.
