V soudní síni newyorského obvodu Queens musí mladík z chudinské čtvrti čelit obvinění z vraždy otce. Porotce č. 8 bojuje za jeho nevinu proti dalším jedenácti porotcům, kteří dospěli k názoru, že mladík je „vinen“, přestože důkazy svědčí v jeho prospěch.
Janine Nielssenová (BROOKE SHIELDSOVÁ) a její dlouholetá partnerka Sandy Cataldiová (CHERRY JONESOVÁ) touží mít dítě, aby jejich rodina ačkoli s dvěma matkami byla rodinou skutečnou. Sandy se chce dát uměle oplodnit a být tak biologickou matkou. Z dítěte se však dlouho spolu netěší, Sandy brzy po narození děťátka totiž zemře, což zavleče Janine do skutečného pekla zákonů a soudů. Evelyn a Frank Cataldiovi (ANNE MEARAVOÁ, AL WAXMAN), rodiče mrtvé Sandy, se totiž rozhodnou získat dítě do svého opatrovnictví a z hlediska práva mají pravdu jsou jeho jedinými skutečnými biologickými příbuznými. Proti právu však stojí bezmezná láska Janine k přítelkyně děťátku, které považuje za svoje. Kdo pomůže Janine v její téměř ztraceném boji proti chladným paragrafům?
A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's harsh judicial system.
A popular prime minister candidate and a well-known thriller book writer face each other in court after she accuses him of sexual abuse just before the election.
Two people have a plan and head to a party
A clinical review of judicial corruption, the good and the bad guys showcased. The need for complete, federal and state judicial reform, term limits, with no immunities.
Sara is a judge very committed to the cases she hears in her office. After meeting David, a young artist, on the beach, she must make decisions about her work and her relationship with Lucas, her husband. Sara, through the force of the sea, wants to achieve spaces of freedom. The encounters with a Caribbean woman, Rosa, and an enigmatic man from the city, Virgilio, will be decisive in resolving her personal dilemmas and better understanding the meaning of justice in a society indifferent to the most marginalized people and with enormous inequality.
AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
Each year, every French citizen has a one in 1,300 chance of receiving a summons to jury service from the Ministry of Justice. Ten former jurors recall being selected, hearing evidence, deliberating, and reaching a verdict: an examination of our society’s civil duty to pass judgement on the most serious cases.