Tempers flare when the father of a white teenager murdered by African-American drug dealers uses racial epithets in the station house. A woman's body is found stuffed inside a refrigerator.
When Alex tries to convince a woman to leave her husband, who is in jail for spousal abuse, her husband becomes irate and vows to get his wife back or make Alex pay the price.
A documentary crew records the attorneys as they fight to win a stay of execution for a man convicted of murdering a young girl.