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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of "A CinderHella Story" as [[spoiler: the gang realize Adele and Kaufman played them by setting up a serial killer as the supposed murderer of Adele's mother and the team freed her. Worse is that the team know they have to keep it quiet, first because it violate lawyer/client confidentiality to reveal it. More importantly, nothing will destroy the reputation of an "innocence project" more than revealing they did get a guilty person out of jail. Thus, the team is forced to learn from their mistake of letting a twisted killer go free.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of "A CinderHella Story" as [[spoiler: the gang realize Adele and Kaufman played them by setting up a serial killer as the supposed murderer of Adele's mother and the team freed her. Worse is that the team know they have to keep it quiet, first because they say it violate violates lawyer/client confidentiality to reveal it. More importantly, nothing will destroy the reputation of an "innocence project" more than revealing they did get a guilty person out of jail. Thus, the team is forced to learn from their mistake of letting a twisted killer go free.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of "A CinderHella Story" as [[spoiler: the gang realize Adele and Kaufman played them by setting up a serial killer as the supposed murderer of Adele's mother and the team freed her. Worse is that the team know they have to keep it quiet, first because it violate lawyer/client confidentiality to reveal it. More importantly, nothing will destroy the reputation of an "innocence project" more than revealing they did get a guilty person out of jail. Thus, the team is forced to learn from their mistake of letting a twisted killer go free.]]
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* DickDastardleyStopsToCheat: DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: [[spoiler:In "A [=CinderHella=] Story", Adele Meyerson was guilty, and Bellows had DNA evidence proving it, and it would have been a slam dunk... if he had just stuck to what he could prove. Instead, he resorted to his usual underhanded methods to ensure that he got a conviction, which gave the Injustice Defense Group a lot of fodder to get Adele exonerated.]]
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* DickDastardleyStopsToCheat: [[spoiler:In "A [=CinderHella=] Story", Adele Meyerson was guilty, and Bellows had DNA evidence proving it, and it would have been a slam dunk... if he had just stuck to what he could prove. Instead, he resorted to his usual underhanded methods to ensure that he got a conviction, which gave the Injustice Defense Group a lot of fodder to get Adele exonerated.]]
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* HollywoodLaw: In "A [=CinderHella=] Story" after Violet records [[spoiler:Adele and Kaufman]] talking of how they got the former off, she says they can't use it because of attorney-client privilege. However, that only applies to communications between attorneys and clients, but the pair agree with her even so. She is not a lawyer in any case, so the evidence could be delivered to the police regardless. However, eavesdropping like she did is illegal under Illinois law, so there could be some repercussions for it. Bellows likely would be happy to get it though and decline to prosecute (though she could be sued nonetheless).
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* HollywoodLaw: In "A [=CinderHella=] Story" after Violet records [[spoiler:Adele and Kaufman]] talking of how they got the former off, she says they can't use it because of attorney-client privilege. However, that only applies to communications between attorneys and clients, but the pair agree with her even so. She is not a lawyer in any case, so the evidence could be delivered to the police regardless. However, eavesdropping like she did is illegal under Illinois law, so there could be some repercussions for it. Bellows likely would be happy to get it though and decline to prosecute (though she (Violet could be sued nonetheless).for this however).
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* HollywoodLaw: In "A [=CinderHella=] Story" after Violet records [[spoiler:Adele and Kaufman]] talking of how they got the former off, she says they can't use it because of attorney-client privilege. However, that only applies to communications between attorney attorneys and clients, but the pair agree with her even so. She is not a lawyer in any case, so the evidence could be delivered to the police regardless. However, eavesdropping like she did is illegal under Illinois law, so there could be some repercussions for it. Bellows likely would be happy to get it though and decline to prosecute (though she could be sued nonetheless).
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* CassandraTruth: Bellows tells Maddie [[spoiler:Adele]] really was guilty, saying they had DNA evidence against her that got suppressed on a technicality. She doesn't believe it, but he turns out to be right.
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* CassandraTruth: Bellows tells Maddie [[spoiler:Adele]] really was guilty, saying they had some DNA evidence against her that got suppressed on a technicality. She doesn't believe it, but he turns out to be right.
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* FrameUp: [[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.
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* HollywoodLaw: In "A [=CinderHella=] Story" after Violet records [[spoiler:Adele and Kaufman]] talking of how they got the former off, she says they can't use it because of attorney-client privilege. However, that only applies to communications between attorney and clients, but the pair agree with her even so. She is not a lawyer in any case, so the evidence could be delivered to the police regardless. However, eavesdropping like she did is illegal under Illinois law, so there could be some repercussions for it. Bellows likely would be happy to get it though and decline to prosecute (though she could be sued nonetheless.)nonetheless).
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* CassandraTruth: Bellows tells Maddie [[spoiler: Adele]] [[spoiler:Adele]] really was guilty, saying they had DNA evidence against her that got suppressed on a technicality. She doesn't believe it, but he turns out to be right.
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Kaufman]] [[spoiler:Kaufman]] frames a man previously acquitted of serial murders with faked emails indicating he killed [[spoiler: Adele's]] [[spoiler:Adele's]] stepmother, insuring her acquittal on the charge.
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* HollywoodLaw: In "A [=CinderHella=] Story" after Violet records [[spoiler: Adela [[spoiler:Adele and Kaufman]] talking of how they got the former off, she says they can't use it because of attorney-client privilege. However, that only applies to communications between attorney and clients, but the pair agree with her even so. She is not a lawyer in any case, so the evidence could be delivered to the police regardless. However, eavesdropping like she did is illegal under Illinois law, so there could be some repercussions for it. Bellows likely would be happy to get it though and decline to prosecute (though she could be sued nonetheless).nonetheless.)
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Toby Kissell hangs himself after Maddie and Levi threaten to expose his past.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In order to take down Detective Falcone, Madeline Scott makes a deal with Bellows, giving him ammunition against his political opponent.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Bellows almost refuses to free a former white supremacist, even if doing so would give him ammunition against his opponent.]]
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:In order to take down Detective Falcone, Madeline Scott makes a deal with Bellows, giving him ammunition against his political opponent.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Bellows almost refuses to free a former white supremacist, even if doing so would give him ammunition against his opponent.]]
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* TheAtoner: In "Cross to Bear", Madeline and Easy take the case of a former white supremacy who has renounced his racist views since being locked up.
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* DirtyCop: In "Cross to Bear", the Injustice Defense Group declares war on a crooked cop who's put dozens of people in jail.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Bellows appears to have a wandering eye, as he enthusiastically takes Isabel Sanchez under his wing and openly flirts with Susan Alders.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Bellows appears to have a wandering eye, as he enthusiastically takes Isabel Sanchez under his wing and openly flirts with Susan Alders.Alders (it's implied they have sex in "The Shame Game").
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Just as it looks like Sarah Bukhari is going to lose her appeal, the deputy prosecutor in her case suddenly announces that she'll accept a plea to a lesser crime and offer a sentence for time served. The deputy prosecutor does this after getting tired of the sexist, condescending judge talking over her for the whole trial.]]
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Just as it looks like Sarah Bukhari is going to lose her appeal, appeal in court, the deputy prosecutor in her case suddenly announces that she'll accept a plea to a lesser crime and offer a sentence for time served. The deputy prosecutor does this after getting tired of the sexist, condescending judge talking over her for the whole trial.]]
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* LawfulEvil: Gore Bellows and Isabel Sanchez are both prosecutors with a ruthless bent towards punishing people they believe to be guilty.
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** Levi Scott hits back when Brian Husband assaults him with a bat. Brian and Helen, his wife, then claim Levi ''attacked'' him, so he's facing assault charges.
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** Levi Scott hits back when Brian Husband assaults him with a bat. Brian and Helen, his wife, then claim Levi ''attacked'' him, attacked ''him'', so he's facing assault charges.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Explored in "The Shame Game", in which Madeline struggles to exonerate a Muslim woman wrongfully accused of an illegal abortion. Throughout the case, Madeline has to fight against an openly pro-life judge who's blatantly biased against them. Easy too is pro-life, but he takes a much more lenient view, believing that even assuming their client was guilty, twenty five years is excessive punishment and thinks women who have abortions should be treated mercifully.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Explored in "The Shame Game", in which Madeline struggles to exonerate a Muslim woman wrongfully accused of wrongly convicted for an illegal abortion. Throughout the case, Madeline has to fight against an openly pro-life judge who's blatantly biased against them. Easy too is pro-life, but he takes a much more lenient view, believing that even assuming their client was guilty, twenty five years is excessive punishment and thinks women who have abortions should be treated mercifully.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Explored in "The Shame Game", in which Madeline struggles to exonerate a Muslim woman wrongfully accused of an illegal abortion. Throughout the case, Madeline has to fight against an openly pro-life judge.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Explored in "The Shame Game", in which Madeline struggles to exonerate a Muslim woman wrongfully accused of an illegal abortion. Throughout the case, Madeline has to fight against an openly pro-life judge.judge who's blatantly biased against them. Easy too is pro-life, but he takes a much more lenient view, believing that even assuming their client was guilty, twenty five years is excessive punishment and thinks women who have abortions should be treated mercifully.
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Madeline had a relationship with a female inmate during her time in prison. She's dating a man now, but they still share a kiss when Maddie goes to visit her.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Explored in "The Shame Game", in which Madeline struggles to exonerate a Muslim woman wrongfully accused of an illegal abortion. Throughout the case, Madeline has to fight against an openly pro-life judge.
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* LawfulEvil: Gore Bellows and Isabel Sanchez are both prosecutors with a ruthless bent towards punishing people they believe to be guilty.
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:Just as it looks like Sarah Bukhari is going to lose her appeal, the deputy prosecutor in her case suddenly announces that she'll accept a plea to a lesser crime and offer a sentence for time served. The deputy prosecutor does this after getting tired of the sexist, condescending judge talking over her for the whole trial.]]
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* DarkCounterpart: Isabel Sanchez, Bellows' new second-in-command, is set up to be the dark counterpart to Madeline Scott. Whereas Madeline suffered a wrongful conviction because of Bellows' glory-hounding, Sanchez lost the chance to see the man who killed her parents get punished because of a slick defense attorney.
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* DarkCounterpart: EvilCounterpart: Isabel Sanchez, Bellows' new second-in-command, is set up to be the dark evil counterpart (for a given value of "evil") to Madeline Scott. Whereas Madeline suffered a wrongful conviction because of Bellows' glory-hounding, Sanchez lost the chance to see the man who killed her parents get punished because of a slick defense attorney.
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* DarkCounterpart: Isabel Sanchez, Bellows' new second-in-command, is set up to be the dark counterpart to Madeline Scott. Whereas Madeline suffered a wrongful conviction because of Bellows' glory-hounding, Sanchez lost the chance to see the man who killed her parents get punished because of a slick defense attorney.
* LyingToThePerp: William Hurston was tricked into handing over incriminating evidence to the police because they led him to believe that he wasn't a suspect in the murder of a grocery store owner.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: In the second episode, Violet forces Madeline to go on a date in the hopes that it will make her less high-strung.
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* YouNeedToGetLaid: In the second episode, Violet forces Madeline to go on a date in the hopes that it will make her less high-strung.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.
* YourCheatingHeart: Bellows appears to have a wandering eye, as he enthusiastically takes Isabel Sanchez under his wing and openly flirts with Susan Alders.
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** Levi Scott hits back when Brian Husband assaults him with a bat. Brian and Helen, his wife, then claim Levi attacked'' him, so he's facing assault charges.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Violet likes to help Madeline in her love life so that she can live vicariously through her.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Violet likes to help Madeline in her love life so that she can live vicariously through her. Her own dating life appears to be stalled due to her swearing off dating apps.
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* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Many of Bellows' convictions were achieved by dragging the defendants through the mud, so that by the time they reach trial, everyone already believes that they are guilty.
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* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Many of Bellows' convictions were achieved by dragging the defendants through the mud, so that by the time they reach reached trial, everyone already believes that they are believed they're guilty.
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** Tamara Folson admitted to police that she slashed the man who tried raping her. However, they use this as a confession to murdering a different man. The judge hearing her petition uses this initially as proof a pattern of her supposed violent history "aggression" as well, despite it being to defend herself.
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** Levi Scott hits back when Brian Husband assaults him with a bat. Brian and Helen, his wife, then claim Levi attacked'' him, so he's facing assault charges.
** Tamara Folson admitted to police that she slashed the man who tried raping her. However, they use this as a confession to murdering a different man. The judge hearing her petition uses this initially as proof of her supposed violent history as well, despite it being to defend herself.
** Levi Scott hits back when Brian Husband assaults him with a bat. Brian and Helen, his wife, then claim Levi attacked'' him, so he's facing assault charges.
** Tamara Folson admitted to police that she slashed the man who tried raping her. However, they use this as a confession to murdering a different man. The judge hearing her petition uses this initially as proof of her supposed violent history as well, despite it being to defend herself.
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* 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.
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* 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.job and get sent back to jail.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Madeline spent ten years in prison for a murder she didn't commit.
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* TheTeetotaler: The first time Madeline got drunk was the night that her best friend Rosemary got murdered. Her intoxication at the time helped Bellows convict her. As a result, she has never gotten drunk since.
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* LadyMacbeth: Mrs. Bellows cheerfully encourages her husband's darker political impulses.
* RapeAsBackstory: In the second episode, Tamara Folsom spent years being sexually abused by her stepfather, and as a result, took to carrying a knife around everywhere in order to defend herself. This did not endear her to the cops investigating the murder of Tim Manning.
* ShipperOnDeck: Violet likes to help Madeline in her love life so that she can live vicariously through her.
* TheTeetotaler: The first time Madeline got drunk was the night that her best friend Rosemary got murdered. Her intoxication at the time helped Bellows convict her. As a result, she has never gotten drunksince.since.
-->"The last time I got drunk, I got convicted and spent ten years in prison, so I'm a party seltzer girl now."
* YouNeedToGetLaid: In the second episode, Violet forces Madeline to go on a date in the hopes that it will make her less high-strung.
* RapeAsBackstory: In the second episode, Tamara Folsom spent years being sexually abused by her stepfather, and as a result, took to carrying a knife around everywhere in order to defend herself. This did not endear her to the cops investigating the murder of Tim Manning.
* ShipperOnDeck: Violet likes to help Madeline in her love life so that she can live vicariously through her.
* TheTeetotaler: The first time Madeline got drunk was the night that her best friend Rosemary got murdered. Her intoxication at the time helped Bellows convict her. As a result, she has never gotten drunk
-->"The last time I got drunk, I got convicted and spent ten years in prison, so I'm a party seltzer girl now."
* YouNeedToGetLaid: In the second episode, Violet forces Madeline to go on a date in the hopes that it will make her less high-strung.
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''Proven Innocent'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Fox}}, starring Creator/KelseyGrammar and Rachel Lefevre.
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Years after being exonerated for a murder that she didn't commit, defense attorney Madeline Scott learns that Gore Bellows, the District Attorney who sent her to jail, is running for State Attorney General. Incensed that the man who ruined her life is angling for a promotion, she and her firm start going through his old cases, seeking proof that he's corrupt.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* 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.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Many of Bellows' convictions were achieved by dragging the defendants through the mud, so that by the time they reach trial, everyone already believes that they are guilty.
* 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.
* TheTeetotaler: The first time Madeline got drunk was the night that her best friend Rosemary got murdered. Her intoxication at the time helped Bellows convict her. As a result, she has never gotten drunk since.
Years after being exonerated for a murder that she didn't commit, defense attorney Madeline Scott learns that Gore Bellows, the District Attorney who sent her to jail, is running for State Attorney General. Incensed that the man who ruined her life is angling for a promotion, she and her firm start going through his old cases, seeking proof that he's corrupt.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* 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.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Many of Bellows' convictions were achieved by dragging the defendants through the mud, so that by the time they reach trial, everyone already believes that they are guilty.
* 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.
* TheTeetotaler: The first time Madeline got drunk was the night that her best friend Rosemary got murdered. Her intoxication at the time helped Bellows convict her. As a result, she has never gotten drunk since.
