June 25, 1906. Madison Square Garden. America's most famous architect takes three bullets to the face in front of a packed audience — and the shooter just stands there, waiting for the police. What follows is the case the press crowned "the trial of the century" before there were any others to compare it to and a defense so audacious the lawyer had to invent a brand-new mental illness — "dementia Americana" — to sell it to the jury. It nearly worked. And the legal fallout — jury nullification, the traps hidden inside an insanity plea — still shapes courtrooms today.

On Good Friday 1958, mob associate Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death in the pink bedroom of actress Lana Turner’s Beverly Hills home. Turner’s 14-year-old daughter confessed. Just one week later, a coroner's jury reached a verdict after less than 25 minutes of deliberation. But questions – and a crime boss’s vengeance – remained.

In February 1943, Errol Flynn — Hollywood's romantic leading man — walked out of Los Angeles Superior Court acquitted of sexually assaulting two teenage girls. This episode examines the legal strategy behind that acquittal, the courtroom tactics used against the accusers, and what the verdict reveals about the criminal justice system of the era — and our own.

1921. One of Hollywood's biggest stars is charged with manslaughter after a woman dies at his party. The DA builds his case around a witness who’s running a shakedown - and never testifies. Three trials, an  astonishing jury statement, and a verdict that couldn’t save him. Criminal defense attorney Adriana Collado goes behind the evidence — and the headlines.