trials (murder)

Discusses the trial of Lizzie Borden and the murders of her parents.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.

In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess. But it wasn't her crime which shocked the nation, it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass for a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fianc?e, Freda Ward. When their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden to ever speak again. Freda adjusted to this with an ease that stunned the heartbroken Alice. Alice's subsequent letters went unanswered and on January 25, 1892, Alice publicly slashed Freda's throat. Alice spent months in jail and a jury eventually declared her insane and she was placed in an asylum where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later.

Three women from different eras struggle to overcome hardship on the Big Muddy Ranch in the Pacific Northwest.

Presents a detailed account of Hawaii's most notorious murder trial, chronicling the social history of Thalia Massie's accusation of five nonwhite men of gang rape, the ensuing trial, its hung jury, and subsequent murder of one of suspects, prompting another trial in defense of the murderers lead by criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Presents a comprehensive examination of injustices done to African-Americans in France from 1944 to 1946 through the testimony of Louis Guilloux, an eyewitness who acted as an interpreter at the courts-martial.

Dallas attorney Scott Fenney is assigned to defend a young woman charged with the murder of a Texas millionaire and son of a presidential hopeful; but as the case unfolds, Fenney is pressured to ease up in his defense of the woman.