Accused: Guilty or Innocent? Season 3
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.
Episodes
E1A US veteran shoots a wanted fugitive in the back.
E2A man is slashed with a knife in his kitchen by his neighbor, but there are no eyewitnesses and both men give different accounts of the incident.
E3A mother finds her child cold and her boyfriend nowhere to be seen. When the child dies and the boyfriend is found hanged, prosecutors may decide that she is to blame.
E4After years of domestic abuse, a woman shoots her husband to death.
E5After a child is injured in a swimming pool, the man looking after her is charged with aggravated child abuse.
E6When a woman is stabbed to death by her husband of three decades, his defense argues that he was insane at the time of the killing.
E7A tattoo artist is shot in his home. The case goes cold until two informants identify a young photojournalist as the shooter. The accused insists he has an alibi and was miles away at the time.
E8A fight between teenagers leads to an 18-year-old being killed by a single gunshot to the chest. Eyewitnesses claim that a 16-year-old student pulled the trigger, but he insists he is innocent.
E9When a mother is found fighting for her life at the bottom of the stairs of her home, suspicion falls on her firefighter husband. The defense claims that she sustained her injuries by falling down the stairs.
E10When 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…