In Justice focuses on freeing wrongly convicted criminals.
Kyle MacLachlan (of
Twin Peaks) stars as David Swain, a wealthy and successful lawyer who heads a high-profile organization called the National Justice Project (commonly abbreviated as "NJP") in the
San Francisco Bay Area, along with his lead investigator, ex–police detective Charles Conti (portrayed by
Jason O'Mara). Members of the National Justice Project work
pro-bono to overturn wrongful convictions, liberate the falsely accused and discover the identity of those who are really to blame. Although the NJP is fictional, there are organizations which examine cases involving people who may have been wrongly convicted (e.g. the
Innocence Project). Each new episode starts out with "what the jury believed", usually a scene in which the person who was wrongly convicted acts out the crime. Throughout the show, David and Charles unravel many clues to how and why the person they are trying to exonerate was convicted in the first place. Each episode revolves around separate cases and addresses the various reasons for
miscarriage of justice. The progress in the show relies less on the famous but largely fictitious forensic procedures used in the
CSI franchise and other procedural shows. In a few episodes "CSI-fiction" is mentioned as a description of theatre and inaccuracy, and sometimes forgery of forensics technology. The series deals with a few subplots. The most prominent is Conti's remorse from his time as a police officer, when he caused an innocent suspect's suicide by coercing him to confess to the murder of his family, and how it makes him obsessed with clearing the wrongfully convicted. Other subplots deals with Swain's uneasy relationship with judicial colleagues and the district attorney's attempts to discredit him, Sonya's personal motivations for clearing the wrongfully convicted—her brother being one of them—and Brianna's reservations and doubts about some of the cases. == Cast ==