trials (murder)

Brothers David and Michael Sanderson have been inseparable since childhood, but when one tragic event changes their lives forever, the surviving brother must find a way to go on with life, despite his grief and guilt.

In the early 20th century, the U.S. Navy dominated Hawaii. Most Americans thought of the islands as a Pacific paradise, but in 1931, a dark incident shattered the tranquil veneer of the islands and exposed growing racial tensions. The wife of a Navy liutenant accused 5 local men of rape. One man was killed. In the trial that followed, celebrity attorney Clarence Darrow offered an impassioned defense on behalf of the husband, calling the murder an "honor killing.".

Accused of murdering a white man, a young black man in South Africa is helped by his minister father and by a white attorney, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice from being done.

Bennie Rosato is surprised by the physical resemblance between her and her new client, and when her client announces she is Bennie's identical twin, Bennie doesn't believe her, but she finds herself drawn to her and as she investigates her client's case, she uncovers secrets her family would kill to keep from her.

In mid-twentieth-century, British-controlled Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere, a native prosecutor who has embraced English culture more than his true heritage, takes on the case of a murdered English tea grower and finds that his standing with the ruling class is not as it seemed.

In southern Mississippi, an African-American father kills the two white men who raped and beat his ten-year-old daughter, and a pair of idealistic but inexperienced young lawyers take the case only to find themselves targets of hatred and bigotry in a racist community.

Myrlie Evers has fought for years to see the man who murdered her husband, African-American civil rights worker Medgar Evers, brought to justice. Yet, after two hung juries and 30 years, justice has not come. Finally, in the 1990s, a brave lawyer reopens the case to fight for the conviction of the murderer.

Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.