
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 wealthy venture-capitalist is found dead in his home, Fontana and Green zero in on the victim's young wife (Andrea Roth) and her contractor boyfriend (Daniel Sunjata).

Evidence in the shooting death of a rap legend seems to point to his young protégé (Sean Nelson), who has been cutting his own music on bootleg CDs, so Fontana and Green listen for clues in the lyrics.

A woman witnesses the shooting of a low-level drug dealer, then she is murdered before she can identify the killers.

Briscoe and Green search for a killer and a motive when parts of an East Village resident's body are discovered in different trash piles.