Conviction
Conviction
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Conviction

For the wrongly convicted, there's one last hope.

6.8 / 10
2016
1 season
13 episodes
Drama

A brilliant young attorney, who is also the daughter of a former U.S. president, is blackmailed to head up LA's new Conviction Integrity Unit. She and her team investigate cases where people may have been wrongly convicted.

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Seasons

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    7.0
    03-10-201642m

    Hayes Morrison needs to dig herself out of what could be a publicly embarrassing situation. She makes a clandestine deal with her adversary, Conner Wallace, to take on the Convicti...

  • Bridge and Tunnel Vision

    2.Bridge and Tunnel Vision

    9.0
    10-10-201642m

    Wallace's career-making case is reexamined by CIU team, but there are unforeseen complexities in this rape and robbery case, and the woman at the center of the crime becomes victim...

  • Dropping Bombs

    3.Dropping Bombs

    9.0
    17-10-201642m

    The CIU team tries to exonerate a political activist with suspect views who is serving a life sentence for bombing a mosque and killing an influential Imam and three followers.

  • Mother's Little Burden

    4.Mother's Little Burden

    8.5
    24-10-201642m

    Hayes and the team tackle the case of a mother convicted in the death of her autistic son.

  • The 1% Solution

    5.The 1% Solution

    9.5
    07-11-201642m

    Hayes launches into damage-control mode following her controversial nationally televised interview, seeking to limit the repercussions within her family and to her mother's Senate...

  • #StayWoke

    6.#StayWoke

    7.2
    14-11-201642m

    The accidental death of a young African American boy, shot by a cop, sparks a racial firestorm and inspires Hayes to re-examine the controversial case of Porscha Williams. Williams...

  • A Simple Man

    7.A Simple Man

    10.0
    21-11-201642m

    The next case Hayes accepts for the CIU is that of Leo Scarlata, a man with diminished mental capacities, imprisoned for burning down his family’s restaurant with fatal repercussio...

  • Bad Deals

    8.Bad Deals

    8.0
    28-11-201642m

    CIU revisits the case of Sierra Macy, a teenage girl who was kidnapped ten years ago and assumed dead—until she manages to escape her captor’s home after he suffers a heart attack...

  • A Different Kind of Death

    9.A Different Kind of Death

    8.0
    05-12-201642m

    Wallace brings the case of a death-row inmate, Earl Slavitt, to the CIU. Earl was convicted of murdering federal prosecutor Tom Simon, one of Wallace’s best friends. Simon did not...

  • Not Okay

    10.Not Okay

    6.2
    01-01-201742m

    After Hayes and Wallace share a passionate night together, Hayes returns to reality and cautiously considers sticking her toe into relationship waters with Wallace. Simultaneously,...

  • Black Orchid

    11.Black Orchid

    7.0
    08-01-201742m

    While Hayes and Wallace struggle to balance their professional and personal lives, they are summoned to a crime scene that fits the M.O. of the infamous “Black Orchid Killer.” Is t...

  • Enemy Combatant

    12.Enemy Combatant

    8.0
    15-01-201742m

    Former President Morrison pays Hayes an unexpected visit and lobbies her (and CIU) to take on the case of Omar Abbas, a Muslim-American citizen held for years without trial in a mi...

  • Past, Prologue & What's to Come

    13.Past, Prologue & What's to Come

    8.5
    29-01-201742m

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