ADA Nick Potter (Jordan Bridges) tackles an easy case to win until a priest wants the charges dropped -- ADA Jessica Rossi (Milena Govich) is close to getting a conviction on a rape case until Bureau Chief Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) steals away her defendant for her own insurance fraud prosecution; while ADA Billy Desmond (J. August Richards) decides to network with an exclusive group of upwardly mobile black men, but the high powered connections come with a price, and his colleague Christina Finn (Julianne Nicholson) gets caught in a landlord/tenant lawsuit. Eric Balfour and Anson Mount also star.

Finn (Julianne Nicholson) investigates the suspicious suicide of a 12-year-old girl whose mother said her daughter was dying of cancer, but her autopsy shows otherwise. Potter (Jordan Bridges) goes to a birthday party and when his friend takes out cocaine he leaves, but his friend is arrested later that evening. He seeks help from Potter, who turns the case over to Desmond (J. August Richards) without filling him in on the details of the night. Cabot (Stephanie March) is on an anti drug campaign, and Peluso (Eric Balfour) has to prosecute a grandmother for heroin possession, when it was her grandson who was selling the drugs. Also starring Milena Govich and Anson Mount.

Finn (Julianne Nicholson) gets dragged into a tragic shaken baby case and the decision to pull life support from the infant. Against direct orders from his boss, Potter (Jordan Bridges) does not settle a case but wins the case anyway; Desmond (J. August Richards) continues his undefeated winning streak at work and has a one night stand with a woman who works at the courthouse, and Steele (Anson Mount) cancels a date with Rossi (Milena Govich) and gets intimate with Cabot (Stephanie March), right before she makes a stunning announcement. Eric Balfour also stars.

Steele must charge a 14-year-old-boy who murdered his brother as an adult -- Deputy District Attorney Steele (Anson Mount) is forced to prosecute Evan, a 14-year-old boy (Jordan Burt) who murdered his big brother with a baseball bat as an adult crime -- but the teenager's pushy father takes a hard-line stance in court that could cost his only living son dearly. Meanwhile, Assistant D.A. Peluso (Eric Balfour) investigates a promising high school athlete Rashard (Roderick Pannell) arrested for a hate crime against a gay man who was blackmailing him. Rossi (Milena Govich) tries to babysit an addicted prostitute to testify in her own rape trial. Also, a jealous Steele checks on Rossi's romantic activities; Finn (Julianne Nicholson) preps for a blind date and Peluso tries to help out a loan shark to whom he's in debt. Stephanie March, J. August Richards and Jordan Bridges also star.

Billy Desmond (J. August Richards) is enlisted to prosecute a superstar rap producer charged with murder; Nick Potter (Jordan Bridges) goes on a ride along with two ghetto cops, landing Potter in a meeting with Internal Affairs; Jessica Rossi (Milena Govich) prosecutes a wife beater, while wrestling with the same problem at home, when her mother tells her she's leaving her father for being abusive, and Christina Finn (Julianne Nicholson) gets caught up in a case with a spoiled diplomat's son and a strip club. Also starring Anson Mount, Stephanie March and Eric Balfour.

Another Law & Order spin-off from producer Dick Wolf, NBC's weekly, hour-long Conviction starred Stephanie March, recreating her familiar Law & Order: SVU role as Assistant DA Alexandra Cabot. Formerly imbedded in the Federal Witness Protection Program, Alexandra was once more able to move about and practice her trade, this time as bureau chief for a group of young, ambitious ADAs. Her new colleagues included deputy DA and law-office manager Jim Steele (Anson Mount); born-into-privilege lawyer Nick Potter (Jordan Bridges), who idealistically left a lucrative private practice to work with Cabot for a paltry 51,000 dollars per year; arrogant grandstander Billy Desmond (J. August Richards), who went to great lengths to secure for himself only those cases that he was sure to win; Jessica Rossi (Milena Govich), Nick Potter's unofficial assistant and a woman with a murky, working-class past; Brian Peluso (Eric Balfour), whose legal brilliance was mitigated by his slovenliness and his messy private life; and Christi