Vinnie Politan

Court TV anchor Vinnie Politan is an Emmy Award-winning legal journalist who anchored the original Court TV. A lawyer and former prosecutor, he has been covering the world of crime and justice for over 20 years, also hosting legal and news programs on HLN, Sirius XM, and, most recently, with NBC in Atlanta. His father was a federal judge and his older brother is a partner at a large national law firm. Politan earned his law degree from Seton Hall University after doing his undergraduate work at Stanford University. He began his legal career as a prosecutor in Bergen County in his home state of New Jersey before entering private practice, where he handled a multitude of complex cases. His career has included covering trials involving Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, Casey Anthony, and Jodi Arias. Politan was the first television news journalist to do a national interview with the parents of Trayvon Martin.