En talentfuld teenager impliceres i et røveri, som ender med mord. Nu må han forsvare sin uskyld og integritet i et retssystem, som allerede har dømt ham på forhånd.
Da advokaten Collete skal mødes med sin nye klient Eleanor, en patient i den psykiatriske afdeling på et hospital i San Francisco, aner hun ikke, hvad hun går ind til. Udover at ville kæmpe en hård juridisk kamp for at forbedre forholdende for psykiske patienter, er Eleanor også en dame med en mission om at transformere Colettes liv til det bedre.
Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears' fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence.
Den afro-amerikanske enlige mor Dee Roberts bor sammen med sine børn i en lille flække i Texas og lever en slave tilværelse for at kunne klare til opholdet. Under hendes normale arbejdstid som servitrice på den lokale landevejs kro stormer politiet stedet og lægger hende i håndjern. Hun tilbageholdes uden en forklaring! Hun regnede med, at den misforståelse snart ville være løst, men får hurtigt den chokerende nyhed, at hun står anklaget for handel med lægemidler baseret på et tvivlsomt vidneudsagn.
Presset af en skarp anklager får Dee tilbudt prøvetid, hvis hun erkender forbrydelsen, frem for at risikere en lang fængselsstraf. Hun nægter at forhandle, og nu begynder en kamp for retfærdighed, der vil få enorm indflydelse på både Dee's liv og på Texas retssystem...
Tre kvinder påstår, at de alle har været gift med den berømte sanger Frankie Lymon. Nu efter hans død, mener de alle at have krav på arven efter ham. Det er ikke nogen let nød at knække for advokaten Morris Levy, der har fået samtlige hustruer som klienter. Men måske er det alligevel muligt at bevise hvem af kvinderne, der først blev gift med Frankie og hvem, der elskede ham højest.
A searing examination of the contamination that sparked an international catastrophe and the decades’ long battle with some of the world’s largest chemical companies for justice and compensation.
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator. After many delays, they deny his application. Then, he finds a way to turn the tables on them for the boy's own good.
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.
A compelling call for justice, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry—an industry notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability. As the legal battle unfolds, families, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgent crisis with ramifications—and inspiration—for us all.
You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.
Basheer (Jagathy) is rescued by a cargo ship while lost at sea. Basheer has had a partial memory loss and he struggles to find out what has happened to him. The captain of the ship (Lalu Alex) tries to get him back to land, but he runs into several legal troubles due to the lack of documents with Basheer to prove his identity. Bhaskara Pillai (Mamootty), a lawyer decides to help out Basheer seeing his plight. The plot thickens when there's an attempted murder on Basheer.
Almost four decades as the Princess of Pop, superstar Britney Spears, continues to be in the public eye on the brink of winning a legal battle with her father that would end a conservatorship and at long last give her control of her life.
“In God We Teach” is the story of Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny (NJ) public high school who secretly recorded his history teacher, David Paszkiewicz in class, and accused him of proselytizing for Jesus.
The Steven Avery case has become a national obsession. ID Front Page brings you the story of the man who served 18 years in prison for a crime he never committed... only to find himself back behind bars just two years later, charged in a brutal murder.