Offers an overview of the American jury system, explaining how juries are choosen, how they function, how the jury system has responded to historical and social pressures, and other related topics.
Uses a "composite" trial as a vehicle to illustrate aspects of the jury system as a whole. Examines how and why a jury reaches a decision and its ramifications for the justice system.
Dr. Rennie Newton, having served on a jury that acquitted notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada, forms an uneasy alliance with Fort Worth detective Wick Threadgill when Lozada makes her the target of his fatal attentions.
Susan Linwood and David Clark are both called to sit on the grand jury where they hear evidence against an elderly Chinese couple who are accused of trafficking in heroin, but there is something not right about the proof and the two jurors find themselves in the midst of an investigation of high-level corruption.
