Conviction is a legal drama series from Dick Wolf is a fast-paced, character-oriented story focusing on young assistant district attorneys of the New York District Attorney's office, headed by bureau chief Alexandra Cabot, who handle tough, high-profile cases that challenge their experience.
Nick Potter leaves a cushy private firm to join the chaos of the New York District Attorney's office, headed by new bureau chief Alexandra Cabot. Their current assignments include prosecuting a drug dealer, while newbie Sara Finn frets when she loses key evidence in her own case. But the Assistant D.A.s are shocked when a member of their team is gunned down -- and one of their own might be responsible.
Deputy District Attorney Steele is forced to prosecute Evan, a 14-year-old boy who murdered his big brother with a baseball bat, as an adult crime -- but the teenager's pushy father takes a hard-line stance in court that could cost his only living son dearly. Meanwhile, Assistant DA Peluso investigates a promising high school athlete Rashard, arrested for a hate crime against a gay man who was blackmailing him. Rossi tries to babysit an addicted prostitute to testify in her own rape trial. Also, a jealous Steele checks on Rossi's romantic activities; Finn preps for a blind date and Peluso tries to help out a loan shark to whom he's in debt.
Potter goes to a birthday party and when his friend takes out cocaine he leaves, but his friend is arrested later that evening. He seeks help from Potter, who turns the case over to Desmond without filling him in on the details of the night. Cabot is on an anti drug campaign, and Peluso has to prosecute a grandmother for heroin possession, when it was her grandson who was selling the drugs.
Nick Potter goes on a ride along with two ghetto cops, landing Potter in a meeting with Internal Affairs; Jessica Rossi prosecutes a wife beater, while wrestling with the same problem at home, when her mother tells her she's leaving her father for being abusive, and Christina Finn gets caught up in a case with a spoiled diplomat's son and a strip club.
Against direct orders from his boss, Potter does not settle a case but wins the case anyway; Desmond continues his undefeated winning streak at work and has a one night stand with a woman who works at the courthouse, and Steele cancels a date with Rossi and gets intimate with Cabot, right before she makes a stunning announcement.
Brian Peluso gets pressure from his recently reunited girlfriend; Christina Finn, who is light on case work, is loaned out to a hard-driving, nasty prosecutor; Alexandra Cabot feels the pressure to hire an image consultant; Nick Potter fills in for Desmond on a bail reduction case that has tragic consequences, and Jessica Rossi finds herself in the middle of a family battle when prosecuting a deaf girl's boyfriend for stabbing the girl's father.
Brian Peluso gets ready to move in with his girlfriend until he learns of her infidelity; Jessica Rossi's uncertain case involves a model who claims she was beaten and raped by a high-profile professional; Jim Steele's case involves a gay couple who recently broke up and the "suicide" of one is questioned when his former partner is charged with murder and Christina Finn meets a hot doctor when he becomes her star witness for a case.
ADA Jessica Rossi is close to getting a conviction on a rape case until Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot steals away her defendant for her own insurance fraud prosecution; while ADA Billy Desmond decides to network with an exclusive group of upwardly mobile black men, but the high powered connections come with a price, and his colleague Christina Finn gets caught in a landlord/tenant lawsuit.
ADA Brian Peluso faces a "wall of blue" when prosecuting a cop-shooter; Christina Finn and her colleague ADA Nick Potter have been summoned to Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot's office where she sends them to acting class to improve their court appearance, and ADA Jessica Rossi has to contend with her dysfunctional family.
A respected female attorney kills her husband, and goes head-to-head against Jim Steele when she decides to defend herself in the courtroom.
Jim Steele tries to prosecute a rape case but the plaintiff's father stands in the way. A.D.A. Potter takes over an easy drug case from colleague Rossi but bungles it badly; A.D.A. Desmond has to deal with an Upper West Side couple and a wacky fortune teller; Bureau Chief Cabot has an elegant engagement party.
The bouncer at the bar is the prime suspect in the case; while a wild shoot-out in the courthouse finds members of the ADA office in a tense and emotional hostage situation.
The bouncer at the bar is the prime suspect in the case; while a wild shoot-out in the courthouse finds members of the ADA office in a tense and emotional hostage situation.
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