Felbin Legal Dramas

Bobby Decker, a white police officer, arrests a young black burglary suspect one chilly spring night, but can't explain how the suspect's skull was fractured. The elected prosecutor with aspirations of a judicial, appointment claims Decker, smashed his skull with a flashlight. Black activists, still critical of that prosecutor's recent failure to convict a white police sergeant for the brutal beating of a mentally challenged young man in his own home, sees this as yet another case of police brutality and wants justice. A murder charge is, brought by an anxious, politically motivated, prosecutor before the brain autopsy is completed. In the wake of media efforts to rekindle hostilities between the police and the black community, the jury trial begins. How will the deadly injury be, explained by the accused officer? How will the prosecutor prove her theory? Can a fair jury be, selected in this racially charged environment? In the end, the jurors will decide the fate of Bobby Decker, or will they?

At the insistence of an influential black state senator and a lack of evidence, Joan Cardwell, an elected prosecutor, amidst racial tensions, brings a murder charge against a white police officer for the death of a black burglary suspect. In return, the prosecutor is, promised a judicial appointment. Shortly after, that promise is, fulfilled, the senator's son is charged with murdering his girlfriend and the case is assigned to now Judge Cardwell. Jonathan Felbin, the police officer's former attorney is, hired to represent the senator's son and quickly suspects that the fix is in. When the trial ends, will Felbin's suspicions about the judge be verified? Will the real killer be, identified or will Felbin search for answers that will lead down a dangerous path filled with twists, turns and dead ends? In the end will the guilty be, identified or will politics define the criminal justice system?

Judge Joan Cardwell is back. As an assistant prosecutor many years ago, she prosecuted a black man for rape. After seventeen years in prison, Larry Jenkins contacts the Innocence Project proclaiming his innocence and seeking a DNA test. At the insistence of Cardwell, Karen Braxton, the elected prosecutor, resists the DNA test. Her resistance leads to an evidentiary hearing. As the evidence develops in the Jenkins case, the prior murder prosecution of Garner Lee, the son of Cassandra and Senator Winston Lee surfaces. Questions are, raised as to whether that murder case was fixed by Braxton, Cardwell, Cassandra and Senator Lee to protect the senator's gubernatorial candidacy. Did the senator put Cardwell on the bench and would the favorable resolution of the murder case be a payback? As the Innocence Project and Jonathan Felbin gather the evidence for a DNA test, Braxton becomes concerned. Something may not be right with the way Cardwell handled the Jenkins case. Did she prosecute and convict an innocent man who had spent the last seventeen years in prison for personal political gain? Was perjured, testimony used to obtain the rape conviction? Although not involved in the decision to prosecute Larry Jenkins, Braxton was involved in the Garner Lee murder prosecution. Will her role along with the involvement of the Lees and Judge Cardwell be uncovered? Will Garner Lee who has repeatedly denied killing his girlfriend, Amy Deland, be exonerated with the identification of the real killer? Will Larry Jenkins be, freed? Will Garner Lee and Larry Jenkins be, vindicated? Or ,will Joan Cardwell, Karen Braxton, Cassandra and Winston Lee be allowed to remain in their offices as though they did nothing wrong?