Filmed on location in New York, the drama showcases the sometimes-complex process of determining guilt or innocence, while lives hang in the balance. Often inspired by the latest headlines, the plots highlight legal, ethical or personal dilemmas to which people can relate.
A young pregnant woman is found beaten and has a miscarriage. Cerreta and Logan are soon led to the lawyer she was working for, who may or may not have been involved in the attack. (S2 Ep6)
Skeletal remains of a boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment block. Finding the killer may ride on Dr Olivet's ability to uncover a possible witness's repressed memories. (S2 Ep7)
A high school student having an affair with one of his teachers is accused of killing her husband. Did the woman use him and set him up, or was the boy obsessed and act on his own? (S2 Ep9)
An arson at an Hispanic social club that killed 53 people is related to a powerful Cuban and the sale of fake green cards. (S2 Ep10)
The frozen body of a Broadway producer is found five years after his death. Stone thinks that a show investor and the producer's fiancée were involved, but it's hard to find a motive. (S2 Ep11)
An obsessed fan is charged with the brutal beating of a soap opera actress. But during the trial, he claims that a voice in his head told him to do it. (S2 Ep12)
Stone and Robinette go after a defence contractor, as well as his lawyer and the hit-man he allegedly hired, after two men are killed and a whistle-blower goes missing. (S2 Ep13)
A man from an old-money family is accused of killing his wife over an affair. The man she was seeing is reluctant to testify, and the case rides on the identification of an heirloom. (S2 Ep14)
A teen confesses to shooting a classmate, but claims it was by accident. Detectives discover that he was responsible for a similar shooting two years earlier, but records are sealed. (S2 Ep15)
The parents of a woman murdered in Manhattan try to get the case moved to Connecticut so that they can pursue the death penalty against the defendant, a suspected serial killer. (S2 Ep16)
A teenage drug addict claims that a nun molested her at a treatment house, but the investigation leads to an accusation of rape involving the chief executive of the facility. (S2 Ep17)
A baby is found frozen to death in a hospital emergency room. The case leads to accusations that a landlord hired people to turn off the heat and harass tenants to get them to leave. (S2 Ep18)
The badly burned corpse of a Jewish jeweller is found in an alley and initial evidence suggests that it could be a hate crime performed by a group of youths. (S2 Ep19)
An award-winning Chinese American high school science student is killed, and evidence points to the jealous family of one of the student's high school competitors. (S2 Ep20)
A councilman is found dead on a street, and the investigation reveals that he was being blackmailed because he was gay. (S2 Ep21)
The murder of a 'corporate raider' seems to be connected to a Brooklyn factory he shut down. The DA's office uncovers a connection to a banking scandal that leads to a former governor. (S2 Ep22)