'Proven Innocent' Season 1: Fox's legal drama has focused on cases involving minorities, here's possibly why
Fox's new legal drama, 'Proven Innocent,' has made for a good watch so far. With the second episode just in, the fight to prove one's innocence just got even more real as Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre) saved yet another person wrongfully convicted of murder, who again happened to be a minority, an African-American.
A fact I point out because being invested in the show I have been prompted to ask why? Is it because of an undertone to racism, overlooked or is there more to it? Research on the topic conducted by Michigan State University College states African-American prisoners who were convicted of murder are about 50 percent more likely to be innocent than other convicted murderers and spend longer in prison before exoneration. That has been in keeping with the cases of Fox's 'Proven Innocent,' we have seen so far.
