Movies and TvShows featuring "self-defense-plea" theme.

A woman suspects her husband is having an affair and hires a private detective to gather evidence. When her suspicions are confirmed, she confronts him and they have a heated argument. In the heat of the moment, she stabs him to death with a knife. The woman is charged with murder and her trial begins. The plot follows the courtroom proceedings as the defense argues for self-defense, while the prosecution presents evidence of premeditation. The story explores themes of infidelity, betrayal, and the consequences of one's actions.

Socrates, a philosopher in ancient Athens, is accused of treason and condemned to death. He chooses to drink hemlock, thus sacrificing his life for the pursuit of knowledge and the freedom of speech.

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.

In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.

A prostitute living in Panama shoots her pimp and is charged with murder. The lawyer who gets her off fronts her money to start a new life in NY where she becomes a successful business woman and meets wealthy businessman, Harry Davenport. He knows nothing of her past. Then someone from the past shows up. Will she be exposed? Will she follow through on her plan to marry?

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.