Proven Innocent – I Tried It, You Should Too

Christina Horton

5 years ago

Proven Innocent

There are a lot of procedurals out there today and it can be hard to pick one to watch. (If any!)

Honestly, I didn’t think I would be that interested in Proven Innocent, but I finally gave in and tried it – mostly for Russell Hornsby. And, I loved it.

This show takes the basic lawyer drama and gives it a deadly twist. It’s also is good at keeping the killer a mystery.

Let me introduce you to the characters and the storyline for the first six episodes and you can decide for yourself.

Rachelle Lefevre in the “A Minor Confession” episode of PROVEN INNOCENT – Cr: Jean Whiteside/FOX

Let’s start with the story

The story revolves around Madeline and Levi Scott who at 18 were wrongfully convicted of their best friend Rosemary Lynch murder.

Now Madeline runs a firm named The Injustice Defense Group and with her partners tries to free the innocent.

Working against her though is state attorney Gore Bellows. Bellows is running for Attorney General and still believes Madeline and her brother are guilty.

Each episode finds Madeline and her team trying to free innocent people while Madeline tries to solve who really killed Rosemary.

The Characters

Rosemary Lynch

Played by: Casey Tutton

She was found murdered in a quarry after a party ten years ago,

Madeline Scott

Played by: Rachelle Lefevre

She is the main character and founder of the Injustice Defense Group. Her and her brother were wrongly accused of Rosemary’s murder and spent ten years in prison for it. She is determined to find Rosemary’s true killer.

Levi Scott

Played by; Riley Smith

Madeline’s brother who struggles with an oxycodone addiction brought on being convicted and time in jail.

We also find out he was dating Rosemary and they had kept it a secret.

Gore Bellows

Played by: Kelsey Grammer

He is the state attorney of Illinois who is also running to become attorney general.

He put the Scott siblings behind bars and still believes in their guilt.

Greta Bellows

Played by: Laurie Holden

The wife of Gore Bellows. She is always by his side and had a miscarriage during the Scott trial due to the stress of it.

Isabel Sanchez

Played by: Catherine Lidstone

A young up and coming lawyer who joins Gore’s team and his campaign.

Her mother was shot and killed while holding her by a man Gore freed believing he was innocent.

Ezekiel “Easy” Boudreau

Played by: Russell Hornsby

Easy was a reinsurance lawyer until he was the only one out of the 2,736 lawyers Madeline wrote to about her innocence.

He took Madeline’s case and won and now works for the injustice defense group.

Nikki M. James in the “Cross to Bear” episode of PROVEN INNOCENT – Cr: Jean Whiteside/FOX

Violet Bell

Played by: Nikki James

The media consultant and runs the “Proven Innocent” podcast for the Injustice Defense Group.

Bodie Quick

Played by: Vincent Kartheiser

He is the firms chief investigator and likes to go undercover even when not deemed necessary. Also is an avid ninja fan.

Dylan

Played by: David Alpay

Dylan is a journalist who dates Madeline to get insider information

Charles Lynch

Played by: Brett Rice

Rosemary’s father and against Bellow’s new law named after his daughter since he knows it’s about winning the campaign.

Evan Esteban-Miller

Played by: Eddie Diaz

Gallow’s opponent for Attorney General. He is supported by Rosemary’s father and Madeline.

Barbara Lynch

Played by: Natalija Nogulich

Rosemary’s mother who still believes that Madeline and Levi are her daughter’s killers. She backs Bellow’s Rosemary’s law ( a ploy to get voters) that would make the time you have for an appeal of a verdict shorter.

Wren

Played by: Candice Coke

Wren is an inmate who has a relationship with Madeline while she is in prison and pushes her to get her degree.

Heather Husband

Played by: Caitlin Mehner

Heather is a classmate of Madeline’s who brings up Rosemary’s death whenever it suits her.

She also pushes her husband into attacking Levi with a bat and then takes Levi to court for assault.

Brian Husband

Played by: Ben Martin

The halfwit husband of Heather. He does everything she says and still seems like a teenager.

L-R: Guest star Laurie Holden and Kelsey Grammer in the “Pilot” series premiere episode of PROVEN INNOCENT – Cr: Jean Whiteside/FOX

Playing Detective

Each week this shows give the viewers the chance to play detective.

They do a great job of laying out the suspects while never letting on to anyone as the killer. We haven’t even seen Rosemary’s death actually happen, just her body.