Photographer Erica Mercer hires British-born attorney Charles Wright to defend her in the charge of murdering her wealthy lover who was found in the trunk of her car.
Andrea Marcovicci plays a prominent lawyer accused of murdering her husband. Wright is the prosecutor going up against a lawyer called "the Cowboy" who claims he has never lost a murder case.
Wright is c asked by an upstate New York District Attorney to prosecute a murder case complicated by a rigged jury and two battling brothers whose company employs most of the town.