Accused: Guilty or Innocent? takes viewers inside the lives of people alleged to have committed serious crimes, offering an intimate account of what happens when someone is formally charged with a crime and sent to trial. Presented solely from the perspective of the accused, their legal team and family members, each episode follows the accused person's journey through the planning of their legal defense, the trial and, ultimately, the verdict. As evidence mounts and the trial approaches, these emotional stories provide a first-hand look at what it is like when your freedom is on the line.
When a young man is found stabbed to death, police follow a trail of blood to a trailer. A shocking tale emerges of a robbery honeytrap gone wrong. As a teenage boy faces a Capital Murder charge, his Defense team claims he is being set up.
When a young man is found stabbed to death, police follow a trail of blood to a trailer. A shocking tale emerges of a robbery honeytrap gone wrong. As a teenage boy faces a Capital Murder charge, his Defense team claims he is being set up.
In Pennsylvania's Mennonite community a father takes his young daughter out on the farm for the tobacco harvest. Tragically she falls to her death under the wheel of a horse drawn wagon. Is the father guilty of the neglect and death of his child?
On a regular Saturday morning drive, a father of two becomes involved in an altercation at an intersection. Believing his life is threatened, he shoots and kills the other motorist. The Prosecution say the deceased posed no physical threat.
Following a drunken altercation outside a Long Island Nightclub, a mystery gunman fires several shots injuring a club doorman. The whole incident is captured on CCTV and the next day the accused is arrested and charged with Assault in the First-Degree.
A pregnant mother gets into an altercation with her boyfriend's ex. When the mother is maced, she grabs her gun and shoots; fatally wounding the ex-girlfriend. A reckless killing or a woman defending herself and her unborn twins?
A drive home ends in tragedy when a handyman travelling over the speed limit, crashes into a turning vehicle, killing the other driver. The Defense will try to convince the Jury that speed was not the only factor. Was the driver reckless?
When an explosion burns a real estate broker's property to the ground, a seeming accident turns to tragedy when the broker learns his stepson died in the fire.
