Accused: Guilty or Innocent? offers an intimate account of what happens when someone is formally charged with a crime and sent to trial – all solely from the perspective of the accused, their legal team and family members.
After a construction company boss is found shot dead in his office in 2005, no arrests are made. An employee says he'd been bound and gagged by a gang just before the shooting. But 14 years later police charge him with murder.
A young father and his family come under attack at a busy drive-thru. Terrified of his aggravated assailant, and with his young baby and girlfriend also trapped in the car, he fires his gun and allegedly injures an innocent bystander.
A 68-year-old father shoots and wounds his daughter's boyfriend when the couple arrive outside the family home. Believing his daughter is trapped in an abusive relationship, he fires three shots to force the boyfriend to leave.
In 2018, 16-year-old Sakai French was charged with murdering an 18-year-old on school property. After years of denial, Sakai finally admitted to the shooting, pleading guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter.
When a veteran and his young family are confronted by an angry neighbor, harsh words escalate to a fatal shooting. Is the accused an enraged murderer or a family defender?
A former NFL player and his wife are shot dead in Houston while they sleep. Their home is locked and alarmed, so, with no signs of an intruder, suspicion falls on their 16-year-old son.
Two Houston parents are shot dead as they sleep, and their teenage son stands accused of murder. The legal battle deepens as new evidence is discovered. A jury must decide: is this a bereaved son or a parent killer?
When a landlord shoots a problem tenant dead in Florida, police and prosecutors act swiftly--charging the landlord with murder. The landlord claims that the tenant was carrying a machete at the time of the shooting and threatened to kill him.