American Justice: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Justice Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Mass Murder: An American Tragedy
Jan 5, 1994
Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.
The Hostage Takers
Jan 12, 1994
Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.
The Wrong Man
Jan 19, 1994
Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.
Fugitives
Feb 2, 1994
How the American legal system deals with fugitives, focusing on John List, a killer who eluded the FBI for more than a decade.
Death Penalty
Feb 9, 1994
Capital punishment; Caryl Chessman; Gary Gilmore; Sister Helen Prejean ministers to death-row inmates.
Mob Rats
Mar 2, 1994
Joseph Valachi and Peter Maas are featured in this look at mobsters who turn against fellow criminals and help law enforcement agencies convict them.
Lorena Bobbitt: Women and Violence
Apr 13, 1994
Increasing violence in society; battered women.
Pleading Insane
May 4, 1994
John Hinckley Jr.; Daniel Sickles kills Francis Scott Key's son; the McNaughton rule; Kimberly Martin.
Cops on Trial
May 18, 1994
Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci uncover corruption in the New York Police Department.
Fighting Words: The First Amendment
Jun 1, 1994
The Supreme Court broadly defines free speech; Nazis march in Skokie, Ill.
Jim Bakker: Crime in the Name of God
Jun 15, 1994
Con artists who use religion for gain.
The Great Brink's Heist
Jul 6, 1994
In one of the most daring robberies in history, the 1950 Brink's robbery netted thieves more than $2.7 million.
Reginald Denny: Jury Under Siege
Jul 13, 1994
Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.
Attack at Waco
Aug 3, 1994
How the authorities may have misjudged David Koresh and the situation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
Sex, Lies and Harassment
Aug 17, 1994
The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case brings sexual-harassment issues under scrutiny.
Gangbusters
Sep 7, 1994
New York gang moves into Boston; Iowa street gang is implicated in a murder.
The Attica Riot: Chaos Behind Bars
Sep 14, 1994
Prison uprisings; 1971 Attica riot; New Mexico State Penitentiary.
Prostitution: Sex and the Law
Oct 19, 1994
Profiling the lives of street-corner hookers and high-class Hollywood call girls and examining how they are brought to justice.
Riot: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Nov 30, 1994
Events leading up to Chicago's 1968 anti-war riots; the "conspiracy to commit riot" trials.
Divorce Wars
Dec 14, 1994
An examination of the evolution of divorce in the United States.