false imprisonment

Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.

Reviews five trials in which people were wrongly convicted of serious crimes, including manslaughter, murder, and conspiracy.

After sixteen-year-old Michael Grove is convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Lisa Conroy, tried as an adult, and sent to prison, the true murderer confesses; after his release, Michael has trouble escaping the stigma of criminality and decides to take suprising recourse to set things right.

A prosecuting attorney Ted Jaffe who, twelve years after condemning a convicted murderer to death row, returns to the courtroom to save that same man's life.

Recounts the true story of the 1999 scandal in the small Texas town of Tulia, where more than forty African-American men and women were arrested for dealing drugs and later convicted based soley on the testimony of an undercover officer who was later exposed as a liar.