Tempers flare as the jurors determine whether a teenager committed a premeditated murder against a rival on the basketball court, or was simply careless as he celebrated New Year's Eve with friends by firing his father's gun from the rooftop of his apartment.
The jury is charged with deciding whether a teenage girl was murdered by her boyfriend, or was a willing participant in an incomplete double suicide pact.
Greenfield presents a credible case for reasonable doubt in her defense of a man accused of the murder of his mail order bride.
Hawthorne urges both sides to come to a swift plea agreement after he learns that gangbangers have intimidated the jurors deciding the fate of two of their members on trial for murdering a woman who opposed their drug dealing in her apartment building; Walker's dark mood during the case is explained when he reveals a painful incident from his past to Dixon.
The jury weighs whether a inmate's grudge prompted him to kill the prison chaplain during a riot, or if his arrest was set up by a fellow inmate and correctional officers.
The jury debates whether they can rely upon the memory and the testimony of a little girl in determining if she was molested by her neighbor.
The jury must determine if the evidence of a contentious relationship and a hat left at the scene is enough to convict a boxer of the death of his manager.
The jury must decide if a highly decorated police officer is guilty of vehicular manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a homeless man even though there are no witnesses that can place him at the scene, and no damage to his vehicle.
The jury examines the possible motives of romantic jealousy, greed, politics, business conflicts, and revenge in determining whether a woman is guilty of soliciting the murder of her business partner and lover.
The jury has a great deal of difficulty in determining whether a psychiatrist attempted to murder a woman who claims they had a sexual relationship while she was his patient.