Judge Wenona Sansbury is a minor character on How to Get Away with Murder. She is a federal judge who presided over the Ben Carter Retrial and Shooting at the Hapstall Mansion case.
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Wenona was the judge during the preliminary hearing for Catherine Haptall and the case involving the shooting of Annalise and the death of Emily Sinclair. During the hearing, Denver presented Annalise's 911 call as evidence as well as her written testimony. A.D.A Robin LaForge objected the use of a written testimony and it was sustained by judge Sansbury. Laurel stepped outside the room and rang Annalise, asking what to do since the judge ruled against her written statement being admissible evidence. Annalise said she would be right over. She arrived while Dr. Takahamo was on the stand. He testified that Emily Sinclair's injuries were not just consistent with a fall and he believed the body had been struck prior to the fall. A.D.A LaForge interrupted to alert the court that Annalise had arrived. During Annalise's testimony, she began to zone out, prompting the judge to check if she was ok.
Afer a recess, Catherine ended up confessing to the crimes for which she was charged. ("What Happened to You, Annalise?")
Season 4[]
 The judge ruling in the case. ("It's for the Greater Good") |
Near a year later, the judge was in a case with Annalise Keating again. This time, she was representing a client (Ben Carter) who was convicted of killing his fiancée who is up for a retrial. The former gang member, who was covered in tattoos, told Annalise she jumped to her death after a fight over their daughter, who wasn’t actually his. Annalise kept the paternity secret but argued in court that she was suffering from postpartum depression. After recess, Nate was called to testify, revealing a newly-recovered voicemail in which Ben's fiancée begged him to come back to her. The ADA on the case was then given evidence of Annalise's deleted voice message where Ben admitted that his daughter wasn't his own. This was then spun by the ADA to make Ben sound like he killed his fiancée because his daughter wasn't his own. However, once receiving evidence of the security footage which showed Ben's fiancée killing herself, Annalise called the chief public defender, Virginia Cross, to the stand as she was the person who secretly gave the tape to Annalise. Annalise requested to the judge that she be able to treat Virginia as hostile. She questioned why this evidence was withheld during Ben’s first trial and played the footage. She claimed she only learned of it during the appeal and was too overworked during the prior trial to sift through all the evidence. This was enough for the judge to dismiss the case and release Ben Carter. ("It's for the Greater Good")
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| Season 2 | |||||||||||
| "It's Time to Move On" | "She's Dying" | "It's Called the Octopus" | "Skanks Get Shanked" | ||||||||
| "Meet Bonnie" | "Two Birds, One Millstone" | "I Want You to Die" | "Hi, I'm Philip" | ||||||||
| "What Did We Do?" | "What Happened to You, Annalise?" | "She Hates Us" | "It's a Trap" | ||||||||
| "Something Bad Happened" | "There's My Baby" | "Anna Mae" |
| Season 4 | |||||||||||
| "I'm Going Away" | "I'm Not Her" | "It's for the Greater Good" | "Was She Ever Good at Her Job?" | ||||||||
| "I Love Her" | "Stay Strong, Mama" | "Nobody Roots for Goliath" | "Live. Live. Live." | ||||||||
| "He's Dead" | "Everything We Did Was For Nothing" | "He's a Bad Father" | "Ask Him About Stella" | ||||||||
| "Lahey v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" | "The Day Before He Died" | "Nobody Else Is Dying" |
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