September 1, 1948: LAPD officers burst into a Laurel Canyon cottage and arrested movie star Robert Mitchum, joint in hand. Was it a sting, a setup, or both? Mitchum walked back into a thriving career. Budding actress Lila Leeds - who received the same charges and sentence as Mitchum - didn’t. Adriana Collado examines the arrest, the informant, and why Mitchum's conviction later vanished while Leeds’s remained on the books.

Busby Berkeley turned chorus lines into kaleidoscopes. Precision was his trademark. Then one night in 1935, he got behind the wheel, and three people died. Witnesses claimed to smell alcohol on Berkeley. Manslaughter became murder. Lawyer to the stars Jerry Giesler took his case, but even with one of Hollywood's most celebrated defense attorneys, Berkeley's fate would take three trials to decide. What made this case so hard to resolve? Criminal defense attorney Adriana Collado breaks down the legal fight that changed the stakes.

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.