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Criminal Justice is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2008 . Written by Peter Moffat , each five-episode series follows the journey of an individual through the justice system and was first broadcast over five successive nights on BBC One .   The first series , first shown in 2008 , starred Ben Whishaw as Ben Coulter , a young man who is accused of murder after a drunken and drug-filled night out , though is unable to remember committing the crime . It was directed by Otto Bathurst and Luke Watson . In 2009 , the second series featured Maxine Peake as troubled housewife Juliet Miller whose husband was stabbed in their bed . Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series .   The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer , three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy . The first season has been re-made into a HBO miniseries The Night Of , starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed .