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"Conviction" (2006): Season 1: Episode 12 -- A young woman leaves an after-hours bar and is found murdered -- part one and two.
"Conviction" (2006): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Noted female attorney kills her husband and represents herself in court.
"Conviction" (2006): Season 1: Episode 9 -- ADA Billy Desmond and Jim Steele have uphill battle prosecuting a case where a teenager dies during a choking game.
"Conviction" (2006): Season 1: Episode 8 -- ADA Nick Potter tackles an easy case to win until a priest wants the charges dropped.
"Conviction" (2006): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Nick Potter becomes a victim when he is robbed and beaten at gunpoint after trying to get a witness to testify.

Overview

User Rating:
6.2/10   244 votes
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Creator:
Dick Wolf
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
3 March 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
ADA Alexandra Cabot from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" returns as the bureau chief for the group of young ADAs... more
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The best lack all conviction: Existential TV, maybe? more

Cast

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Eric Balfour ... Brian Peluso / ... (13 episodes, 2006)

Jordan Bridges ... Nick Potter / ... (13 episodes, 2006)

Milena Govich ... Jessica Rossi / ... (13 episodes, 2006)
Stephanie March ... Alexandra Cabot (13 episodes, 2006)

Anson Mount ... Jim Steele / ... (13 episodes, 2006)

Julianne Nicholson ... Christina Finn (13 episodes, 2006)

J. August Richards ... Billy Desmond / ... (13 episodes, 2006)
Catrina Ganey ... Cheryl (13 episodes, 2006)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Young Prosecutors" (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
USA:60 min (with commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

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Uses some of the same sets used for the short-lived "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005). more
Quotes:
Brian Peluso: You are gorgeous, absolutely, unequivocally, unrelentingly, gorgeous. With a perfect, I repeat perfect, body. more
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Featured in J. August Richards: 'Conviction' (2006) (V) more

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16 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
The best lack all conviction: Existential TV, maybe?, 19 March 2006
Author: jshoaf from Florida

I was impressed by this show, of which I've seen two episodes. The theme seems to be that the pace of life and of crime today is so fast that one can no longer seek truth or justice--one must just keep doing what one is doing and perhaps try to be kind to those who can't keep up.

The classic crime show follows the track laid down by Sherlock Holmes and beloved of all mystery readers: the Good Guys are the recurring characters, and they are completely dedicated to Justice, and in each episode/story they track down Bad Guys who have violated the law or morality in some way and try to see that the legal system punishes the Bad Guys for what they have done. Maybe sometimes it turns out that there is no crime actually committed--no Bad Guy this time; maybe sometimes the Bad Guy turns out to be sympathetic and virtuous; sometimes legal system is unable to follow through. But all these conflicts are registered for us through the wisdom of the Good Guys, who represent the desire for Truth and Justice.

In Conviction, the protagonists are not in fact particularly Good Guys. The head of the group of DAs, Cabot, will bend truth, justice, and/or the law to obtain a desirable conviction, and clearly gets a personal thrill not out of Truth or Justice but out of Winning. In another show, she would be shown up as stupid or incompetent, but here she is the smartest and most competent person around. The assistant DAs who make up most of the cast could be divided between those who will bend the law to protect themselves and those who are naively committed to some version of Justice--except that the law-benders have consciences and the committed ones find themselves compromising, and compromised too. Winning a case can be worse than losing one, even if Justice is served for a few minutes in the courtroom. What's more, in some cases even we the audience don't get to know the truth about a case--all we get to know is what the DA knows, and that may not be conclusive.

It is really impressive to have such a large cast, each member with a case, all moving around, bumping into each other, often lying to each other, in one episode. The plot is just a pattern glimpsed in chaos. There is no illusion that when one case ends, the DAs can sit down and congratulate each other; more crime is out there, other cases are bubbling up as the criminals and victims of the preceding one sink into the background. I feel that this could be a very truthful and moral show, precisely because it does not comfort one with the triumph of Truth and Virtue.

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