Accused: Guilty or Innocent?

- Season 3

(2022)

On September 28, 2018 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, a retired US veteran, Michael Ward, shoots a wanted felon fugitive, Sean Allen (age 35) in the back. Allen was on the veteran's property and had allegedly previously stolen items from Michael Edward Ward. Allen's autopsy showed that he was high on methamphetamine at the time of his death. The legal system must decide whether the veteran was acting in self-defense or murdering the fugitive. The trial takes place in the Mayes County Courthouse, with defense attorney Misty Fields representing Ward.

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?

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

A woman who claims to be a victim of domestic abuse shoots her husband to death. Were her actions justified?

When a young child is severely injured by falling in a swimming pool, the man who is supposed to be looking after her is arrested by the police. Should he be held criminally responsible for every parents' nightmare? Or was this an unfortunate accident?

A community is shocked when a man kills his partner of decades, but he claims that he was insane at the time, whereas the prosecution says he was rational.

A tattoo artist is shot in his home and the case goes cold for two years until two informants step forward and identify a young photojournalist, but the accused insists he has an alibi and was miles away at the time of the shooting.

A fight between teenagers turns deadly when an 18-year-old is killed by a single gunshot to the chest, and while eyewitnesses claim a 16-year-old student pulled the trigger, he insists he is innocent.

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 alleges she was the victim of a devastating assault.

A landlord shoots a problem tenant dead in Florida and investigators charge the landlord with murder. The suspect claims self-defense because the tenant was carrying a machete at the time of the shooting and threatened to kill him.