Accused: Guilty or Innocent? - Season 3

A US veteran shoots a wanted fugitive in the back on his land--murder or self-defense?

Neighborhood drinks turn bloody when a fight breaks out between friends. Was this self-defense or a brutal attack?

A mother wakes to find her child cold and her boyfriend nowhere to be seen. When the child dies and the boyfriend is found hanged, will prosecutors decide that she is to blame?

An intimate account of what happens when someone is formally charged with a crime and sent to trial.

After a child is injured in a swimming pool, the man looking after her is charged with aggravated child abuse. The former US Army medic claims he did everything possible to save the young girl's life--but the prosecution allege he is to blame for her injuries. Tragic accident or child neglect?

After a woman is stabbed to death by her husband of three decades, shockwaves echo around a community. The prosecution claims this is a clear case of murder. For the defense, however, this is a one-in-a-million event. They argue that the husband was insane at the time of the killing. Will a jury believe that there is a medical explanation for this tragic event? Or will the husband spend the rest of his life behind bars?

In the dead of night, a tattoo artist is shot in his home. For two years, the case goes cold--until two confidential informants step forward and identify a young photojournalist as the shooter. The accused insists he has an alibi and was miles away at the time of the shooting. However, with forensic evidence linking him to the weapon, the prosecution believe they have their man. With a maximum of 15 years in prison on the table, who will prove their case--the defense or the prosecution?

A fight between teenagers turns deadly when an 18-year-old is killed by a single gunshot to the chest. Eyewitnesses claim that a 16-year-old student pulled the trigger--however, the young student insists he is innocent. With no forensic evidence tying the student to the crime, will he be cleared or convicted?

When a mother is found fighting for her life at the bottom of the stairs of her home, suspicion falls on her firefighter husband. The prosecution allege she was the victim of a devastating assault. The defense claim she sustained her injuries by falling down the stairs. With life in prison as a possible sentence and hidden secrets revealed, was this murder or an accidental fall?

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. With the landlord facing life in prison if found guilty, is this self-defense or murder?