In Justice

In Justice
Intertitle
Created by	Michelle King Robert King
Starring	Jason O'Mara Kyle MacLachlan Marisol Nichols Constance Zimmer Daniel Cosgrove
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Production company(s)	Touchstone Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	January 1, 2006 – March 31, 2006

In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST. It was cancelled after its 13-episode run on March 31, 2006. The series was simulcast in Canada on CTV. In the UK In Justice was shown on UKTV Gold beginning September 17, 2006 and was later repeated on ABC1 in 2007.

Premise

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

Actor	Role
Jason O'Mara	Charles Conti
Kyle MacLachlan	David Swain
Constance Zimmer	Brianna
Marisol Nichols	Sonya Quintano
Daniel Cosgrove	Jon Lemonick
Tim Guinee	Richard Rocca

Episodes

The show's "sneak-peek" episode aired on January 1, 2006, while the original series pilot was aired on January 6, 2006. According to Variety, the program won its timeslot in the January 1 sneak airing and finished second in its January 6 timeslot, the latter just slightly behind CBS's Close to Home.^[1] The eighth episode, "The Public Burning", came in second to NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.^[2]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Viewers (millions)	Original air date	Production code
1	"Brothers and Sisters"	James Frawley	Tom Szentgyorgyi	10.50[3]	January 1, 2006	103
2	"Pilot"	Mick Jackson	Jeff Melvoin, Robert King & Michelle King	9.20[4]	January 6, 2006	101
3	"Golden Boy"	Paul Holahan	Robert King & Michelle King	8.70[5]	January 13, 2006	102
4	"Confessions"	Stephen DePaul	Terri Kopp	8.90[6]	January 20, 2006	105
5	"Another Country"	John Contner	Jeff Melvoin	7.60[7]	January 27, 2006	104
6	"The Ten Percenter"	David Straiton	Henry Robles	8.80[8]	February 3, 2006	107
7	"Cost of Freedom"	Paul Holahan	Barry M. Schkolnick	8.41[9]	February 10, 2006	106
8	"The Public Burning"	Marita Grabiak	Michael Oates Palmer	8.33[10]	February 17, 2006	108
9	"Victims"	Kevin Bray	Courtney Kemp	6.60[11]	March 3, 2006	109
10	"Badge of Honor"	Peter Medak	Marc Guggenheim	5.09[12]	March 10, 2006	110
11	"Lovers"	J. Miller Tobin	Terri Kopp & Karen Campbell	6.51[13]	March 17, 2006	111
12	"Side Man"	Paul Holahan	Michael Oates Palmer & Barry M. Schkolnick	6.72[14]	March 24, 2006	112
13	"Crossing the Line"	Paul Holahan	Henry Robles	5.52[15]	March 31, 2006	113

The team succeeds in clearing a convicted person in each episode, except in "The public burning", where justice fails and a mild mentally challenged man is executed just minutes before truth is revealed (though it is unclear if the team were able to expose the killer, since Conti confronts the murderer in his house)

International airdates

Country	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Weekly schedule	Alternate title
United States	ABC	January 1, 2006	Friday 9:00 PM
Australia	Seven Network 7Two	December 5, 2006 November 4, 2009	Tuesday 9:30 PM (Dec-Jan 2007) Tuesday 11:00 PM (Apr 2007) Mon-Fri 1:00 PM
Canada	CTV	January 1, 2006	Friday 9:00 PM
Croatia	HRT	January 11, 2007	Thursday 10:35 PM CET
Czech Republic	TV NOVA	July 11, 2007	Wednesday at 11:00 PM	Po právu
France	TF1	June 25, 2006[16]		Dernier recours
Hungary	Viasat 3	April 6, 2006	Thursday 9:00 PM	A törvény jogán Az igazság harcosai
Italy	Rai Tre	December 6, 2007	Wednesday and Thursday at 10:30 PM
Norway	TV 2 and TV 2 Zebra
Saudi Arabia and Arab World	Showtime Arabia, TV Land (Subtitled)	January 18, 2007	Thursday at 8:00 PM
United Kingdom	UKTV Gold ABC1	September 17, 2006 2007
Indonesia	Fox Crime	September 26, 2006 2007

See also

• Innocence Project
• List of wrongful convictions in the United States

References

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10. "WEEKLY PROGRAM RANKINGS FROM 02/13/06 THROUGH 02/19/06" (Press release). ABC Medianet. February 22, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
11. "WEEKLY PROGRAM RANKINGS FROM 02/27/06 THROUGH 03/05/06" (Press release). ABC Medianet. March 7, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
12. "WEEKLY PROGRAM RANKINGS FROM 03/06/06 THROUGH 03/12/06" (Press release). ABC Medianet. March 14, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
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14. "WEEKLY PROGRAM RANKINGS FROM 03/20/06 THROUGH 03/26/06" (Press release). ABC Medianet. March 28, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
15. "WEEKLY PROGRAM RANKINGS FROM 03/27/06 THROUGH 04/02/06" (Press release). ABC Medianet. April 4, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
16. "Dernier recours GUIDE DES SAISONS" (in French). Retrieved 30 March 2010.

External links

• In Justice at the Internet Movie Database
• In Justice at TV.com
• In Justice and Jason O'Mara