Hayes launches into damage-control mode following her controversial nationally televised interview, seeking to limit the repercussions within her family and to her mother's Senate campaign. Meanwhile, the CIU takes on the case of a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, convicted for hugging a wealthy woman whose privileged family took him in and treated him as one of their own. And Hayes' relationship with her family isn't the only tricky situation when she learns Wallace has hired a surprising person from her past to represent him in a high-stakes government investigation into his work as D.A.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 5 of Conviction was watched by 3,640,000 viewers, resulting in a 0.60 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Is Conviction Renewed or Cancelled for Season 2?

Conviction Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Bridge and Tunnel Vision
• s01e03 - Dropping Bombs
• s01e04 - Mother's Little Burden
• s01e05 - The 1% Solution
• s01e06 - #StayWoke
• s01e07 - A Simple Man
• s01e08 - Bad Deals
• s01e09 - A Different Kind of Death
• s01e10 - Not Okay
• s01e11 - Black Orchid
• s01e12 - Enemy Combatant
• s01e13 - Past, Prologue & What's to Come

Conviction Show Summary

Lawyer and former First Daughter Hayes Morrison is about to accept a job offered from her nemesis, NY District Attorney Wayne Wallis, to avoid jail time for cocaine possession and avoid hurting her mother's Senate campaign.

Working with his team at the new Conviction Integrity Unit will let her use her brilliant mind to turn over cases, where there is credible suspicion of wrongful conviction, and give her a chance to turn things around with her high-powered political family.