Dan Abrams

At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer.What normally would have been a local case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln's debates with Senator...

Chronicles the epic 1915 libel case in which Theodore Roosevelt, weighing a last presidential run, turned on former allies to challenge corruption in the political party that made him. "The bestselling authors of Lincoln's Last Trial take readers inside the courtroom to witness the epic 1915 case in which Theodore Roosevelt, weighing one last presidential run, defended his integrity and challenged the political system. 'No more dramatic courtroom...

A defendant has multiple outbursts at trial. A man about to be sentenced attempts a courtroom escape. A judge is frustrated by a defendant's constant disruptions; and more.

Joshua Aide, a former Marine, is on trial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend's father, as well as her attempted murder and that of a family friend. He claims he was ambushed by the three.

An unflinching look at emergency first responders in action. Moped accident in Arkansas, hit-and run in Arizona, alligator rescue in Florida.

A defendant facing life in prison takes a deputy's gun, resulting in a tragic event; a defense attorney is brutally attacked by the man he's representing; a man enters an Oklahoma courthouse with no pants; and more.

A man convicted of double murder elbows his own attorney in the face; a defendant misses his virtual hearing by falling asleep; the judge loses his patience during a tenant/landlord dispute; and more.

Bone chilling courtroom drama surrounding a man who committed a grisly murder... of his own parents; the right person is finally convicted for a decades old crime; a scofflaw repeatedly tests the patience of judge; and more.

Stay-at-home mom Danielle Redlick was arrested and charged with 2nd Degree Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence the death of her husband, pro sports executive Michael Redlick.

A man accused of killing not one, but two of his girlfriends is brought to justice; a deputy recalls his miraculous discovery deep in the Montana wilderness; multiple bailiffs are targeted during a defendant's violent outburst; and more.