History Series / ProvenInnocent

** Some of the transwomen in "The Struggle for Stonewall" note that when they fought to defend themselves from transphobic bigots, the police instead arrested ''them''.

* SurprisinglyRealiisticOutcome: ** The series has Madeline and Levi Scott convicted of the murder of their high school classmate Rosemary. After ten years in jail, the duo are freed when newer evidence proves their innocence. However, not everyone is willing to accept this and many (including Rosemary's parents and the D.A. Bellows) are still convinced the duo are guilty.

* RealityEnsues: In "Seal Team Deep Six", Madeline's legal training repeatedly fails her when dealing with a military court, which has very different rules from a civilian court.

''Proven Innocent'' is a series which aired on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammer, Creator/RachelLefevre, Creator/RileySmith, Creator/RussellHornsby and Creator/NikkiMJames.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Levi accuses Madeline of this when she intervenes in his assault case, claiming that she needs to feel like everyone else depends on her.

* {{Transgender}}: In "The Struggle for Stonewall", Madeline and Easy take up the case of Cindy Whitman, a trans woman convicted of murdering a trans woman activist.

''Proven Innocent'' is a series which aired on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammer, Rachel Lefevre, Creator/RileySmith, Creator/RussellHornsby and Nikki M. James.

''Proven Innocent'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammer, Rachel Lefevre, Creator/RileySmith, Creator/RussellHornsby and Nikki M. James.

''Proven Innocent'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammer, Rachel Lefevre, Creator/RileySmith, Creator/RussellHorsnby and Nikki M. James.

''Proven Innocent'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammer, Rachel Lefevre, Riley Smith, Russell Horsnby and Nikki M. James.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: In the second episode, Violet forces Madeline to go on a date in the hopes that it will make her less high-strung.
* YourCheatingHeart: Bellows appears to have a wandering eye, as he enthusiastically takes Isabel Sanchez under his wing and openly flirts with Susan Alders (and it's implied they have sex in "The Shame Game").

* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Bellows is constantly warned that he may ruin his career if he goes after Madeline for Rosemary's murder again and fails to convict her. At the end of "In Defence of Madeline Scott", [[spoiler:although the trial ends with Madeline being fully cleared and the true killer exposed as one of Bellows' campaign supporters, Bellows manages to turn it in his favour by killing the man in a manner that is staged as a suicide and exaggerating his emotional investment in the situation to atone for his 'mistake', thus regaining the campaign support he might have lost]].

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Madeline had a relationship with a female inmate during her time in prison. She's dating a man later, but she and Wren still share a kiss when Maddie goes to visit her. After she finds out Noah's a reporter who's been investigating her, Madeline dumps him and rekindles the prior relationship.]]

The series was canceled after one season.

** "Shaken" looks at a positive version of this; after the team determine that [[spoiler:Deborah Vanderhey is responsible for the death of her granddaughter as part of a long history of domestic abuse that was covered up by her family's lawyers and doctors, the judge informs Deborah that while she cannot charge Deborah of anything as the statute of limitations on her crimes has expired, she is certain that the woman will be tried in the court of public opinion.

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Many of Bellows' convictions were achieved by dragging the defendants through the mud, so that by the time they reached trial, everyone already believed they're guilty.

* EvilCounterpart: Isabel Sanchez, Bellows' new second-in-command, is set up to be the evil counterpart (for a given value of "evil") to Madeline Scott. Whereas Madeline suffered a wrongful conviction because of Bellows' glory-hounding, Sanchez not only lost the chance to see the man who killed her parents get punished because of a slick defense attorney, but he only had a chance to kill her because he was released after an assault charge a month before her mother died.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:In "In Defense of Madeline Scott", Levi agrees to testify against Madeline in order to avoid going back to jail; ultimately subverted when it turns out he only did it so that he could call Bellows corrupt while testifying.]]

** While he claims his quest to prove Madeline is guilty is guided by justice, it's clear Bellows can't get over Madeline ruining his record by her innocence and this is really about his wounded pride, [[spoiler:although he does show regret when meeting with Madeline in private after they have learned the truth]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In "Acceptable Losses", while a character comes across as an arrogant entitled man in his first meeting with Easy and Bodie, when he learns that one of his friends raped his then-girlfriend when they were in college, he immediately apologizes for what happened and puts his own reputation at risk by revealing his association with the rapist to make amends for what happened.

* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Bellows is constantly warned that he may ruin his career if he goes after Madeline for Rosemary's murder again and fails to convict her. At the end of "In Defence of Madeline Scott", [[spoiler:although the trial ends with Madeline being fully cleared and the true killer exposed as one of Bellows' campaign supporters, Bellows manages to turn it in his favour by killing the man in a manner that is staged as a suicide and exaggerating his emotional investment in the situation to atone for his 'mistake', thus regaining the support he might have lost]].

** On a more positive note, during "In Defence of Madeline Scott", [[spoiler:Heather Husband finally recognises that she was wrong about Madeline when new evidence emerges that Ravi is still alive and is trying to stop the trial, although Madeline cannot let Heather testify in her defence as a witness changing sides would actually hurt her case]].

** [[spoiler:Kaufman]] frames a man previously acquitted of serial murders with faked emails indicating that he killed [[spoiler:Adele's]] stepmother, insuring her acquittal on the charge.

* ItsPersonal: Madeline makes no secret of the fact that her quest to bring down Bellows is driven by the damage that he did to her and Levi's lives.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In "Acceptable Losses", while a character comes across as an arrogant entitled man in his first meeting with Easy and Bodie, when he learns that one of his friends raped his then-girlfriend when they were in college, he immediately apologises for what happened and puts his own reputation at risk by revealing his association with the rapist to make amends for what happened.

* AlphaBitch: Heather Husband, one of Maddie's old classmates, still refuses to believe that she and her brother Levi are innocent, and in the first episode, she and her husband Brian decide to frame Levi for assault so that he'll lose his job and get sent back to jail.

* FormerBigot: In "Cross to Bear", Madeline takes on the case of a former white supremacist who was framed for the murder of a black man. He claims to have renounced his former beliefs, but it's left ambiguous whether he actually did, causing tensions between Maddie and her black associates, who are understandably uncomfortable with defending a white supremacist.

** In "Shaken", after the case has concluded by exposing a long history of child abuse from Deborah Vandenhey, the grandmother of the dead infant, although Deborah was not responsible for the infant's death directly, the judge makes it clear that she is only not opening charges of child abuse against Deborah because the statute of limitations has exposed, but expresses full confidence that Deborah will be tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.