The criminal justice system through the eyes of America's most misunderstood and maligned profession, Public Defenders.
Set in San Francisco, Presumed Guilty breaks new ground as it allows viewers to step inside holding cells, courtrooms, law offices, and police stations and into the inner sanctum of lawyer-client confidentiality while following two high-profile murder cases.
I'm an outlaw. My crime? Being poor. I, or I should say we, have taken over empty houses to live in, stolen thrown-away food and eaten it, found used clothing and worn it, and for those simple acts of survival the city is out to throws us in jail... I never thought I'd be and outlaw, so here's how it happened.