
Lives hang in the balance as detectives and prosecutors pursue justice in New York City. In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place -- and keep the worst offenders off the streets.

When a controversial conservative talk-show host is shot to death, detectives sift through many possible suspects, eventually focusing on the man's widow and a woman who may have been stalking her.

A man strangled in his rent-controlled apartment leads detectives to the building's owner, who wants to convert the building to a co-op, but a basketball player's fingerprints are found at the scene.

When a medical student is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Walker and Calvino uncover a shocking motive; Price faces a defense that asks whether a crime was committed at all; Maroun struggles with what the law demands and what feels fair.

The detectives proceed with skeptical caution when a radio personality, known to stage fake muggings for publicity, claims to have been shot and almost killed.