Description of series

Top-lining "Oskyldigt Dömd“ is internationally acclaimed Swedish star Mikael Persbrandt, best known as Inspector Beck‘s colleague Gunvald in the hit Swedish crime series "Beck.“ Produced by Filmlance International for TV4, the series provides solidly constructed, suspenseful whodunits shot through with moral ambiguity. Another inimitably, absorbingly Scandinavian crime series!The thought is enough to make your blood curdle: to be convicted of a crime you didn‘t commit and be locked up in jail for years, maybe even till the end of your life. However, you‘re in luck if law professor Markus Haglund hears about your case, since he and his four students devote themselves to reviewing cases and freeing the unjustly sentenced. But what if the person who comes free is actually guilty?Markus Haglund, 43, is a charismatic and brilliant legal mind, but a tormented, cynical human being. As a lawyer, he became a household name ten years ago when he defended an alleged murderer and got him off. Two days later the suspect raped and killed a young mother and her eight-year-old daughter. Markus quit practicing, sold his flat and spent the next year drinking. He was saved by his old friend Caroline, now Dean at the Uppsala Law School, who gave him a desk job. There Markus thrived and, no longer hampered by his fear of freeing the guilty, soon obtained his professor‘s title. But old habits die hard, and his drinking and womanizing won him an increasing number of enemies. Again, Caroline stepped in and gave him an ultimatum: "Head this new class – or quit.“The class he heads takes him back to his own private hell: examining cases of convicted felons who claim they‘re innocent. Each of his students – Anna, Fia, Belal and Roger – has a strong personal motive for assuming this challenge. For the best way to prove someone‘s innocence is to find the true perpetrator. Markus and his team realize that they are often unleashing dangerous forces by delving into such cases. But the path to the truth is dangerous and paved with fear and lies. And sometimes you almost have to break the law in order to apply it.