Accused: Guilty or Innocent?

- Season 4

(2023)

A young man stabs another man who assaulted his brother and attempted to steal from their family-run gas station. Was it attempted murder or self-defense?

Police reopen the cold case of a young U.S. Marine, Keith Jones, who was killed in 1997 in a Florida motel room, and they charge the woman, Michelle Ashley, who was with him at the time.

Jerry Mittelstadt falls asleep while driving and accidentally kills a construction crew worker, Lawrence Leonarduzzi, in the road. Was Mittelstadt a reckless driver or an innocent man with an undiagnosed medical condition?

A traveling nurse assistant, Taiz Cruz, age 23, is an Ohio resident. She is employed as a COVID crisis response worker is pulled over by law enforcement for a traffic violation in New Mexico and is arrested on a warrant for a felony home-invasion burglary that happened on December 25, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. Is she a "thug for hire" or an innocent party in a dispute with a rock-solid alibi? She is charged with helping her girlfriend break into a house and assaulting two female occupants. This alleged crime was brought about due to a custody dispute between the mother ...

A woman driver, Margaret Ann Culp, faces a felony charge and a possible sentence of life in prison when a passenger in the car she is driving, Veronica Lynn Ott, is killed after Margaret collides with an 18-wheeler truck. Was she an intoxicated reckless driver or was this collision an unavoidable tragic accident? The unfortunate accident happened on Highway 5 on September 5, 2015 in Birmingham, Alabama. Eighteen months after the incident, in 2017, Margaret was charged with felony murder. There was a seven-year wait until her case came to trial. She is being charged ...

Las Vegas, Nevada. The Accused: Kristina Kerlus. The Criminal Defense Attorney: Ryan Helmick of Las Vegas, NV. On October 5, 2018, Kristina's 11-week-old son Jocai (pronounced Jo-SY) was rushed to the hospital and unfortunately died. Kristina also has three more children with her partner, Jaevone Davis: Khyree, age 9; twins Kairo and Jalil, ages 7. Nine months after the death of her baby, Kristina is charged with the death of Jocai. The prosecution believes that the baby died due to "Shaken Baby Syndrome". The defense attorney, upon obtaining medical advice, strongly ...

Florida, January 3, 2021: An argument erupts in a parking lot outside of a nightclub, the 'Hollywood Live Restaurant and Lounge' located at 2333 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, Florida. The victim, Anthony Sutton, is killed by a gunshot wound. The Accused, Guy Georges, is charged with his murder. Guy claims that he was certain that Anthony Sutton was going to shoot him and therefore feared for his life. Guy claims he shot Sutton in self-defense. In lieu of a jury trial, Guy's lead defense attorney, Andrew Rier, is presiding over a 'Stand Your Ground' motion in front of a ...

'Accused: Guilty or Innocent?' first covered the case of Angel Bumpass on the installment titled 'Cold Case Killer or Innocent Teenage Girl?' which aired on May 12, 2020. In 2020, Angel Bumpass was convicted of the 2009 robbery-gone-bad murder of Franklin Bonner, age 68. The homicide had been unsolved for 10 years. In 2009, when the crime took place, Angel Bumpass was only 13 years old. Prosecutors had matched her fingerprints on duct tape that was used to wrap Franklin Bonner's head, which suffocated him. Angel Bumpass' co-defendant, a person that Angel claims that ...