Conviction (TV series, 2006)

Television series
Original title	Conviction
Country of production	United States
original language	English
year	2006
length	45-48 minutes
Episodes	13 in 1 season
genre	Crime series , drama
idea	Dick Wolf
script	Rick Eid Walon Green
production	Carter Harris Peter Jankowski
music	Jason Derlatka Jon Ehrlich
camera	John Thomas
cut	Charles Bornstein Cari Coughlin
First broadcast	March 3, 2006 on NBC
occupation
Stephanie March : Alexandra Cabot Eric Balfour : Brian Peluso Jordan Bridges : Nick Potter Milena Govich : Jessica Rossi Anson Mount : Jim Steele, Deputy District Attorney Julianne Nicholson : Christina Finn J. August Richards : Billy Desmond Fred Dalton Thompson : District Attorney Arthur Branch Hudson Cooper : Arrangement Clerk Samantha Shelton : Diane Kastle Jill Flint : Lisa Sandorff Craig Walker : Jason Rossi Jas Anderson : young colored man William H. Burns : Patrol Officer

Conviction is a series in the Law & Order series universe and launched in March 2006 in the United States . The television series was discontinued after only three months due to low ratings, and 13 episodes were created.

action

The series is about a group of young employees of the New York District Attorney's Office and gives insights into their explosive cases and also into their private lives.

Characters

• Deputy District Attorney Jim Steele is the Vice Chairman of the Assistant District Attorney (ADA). He is strong-willed and determined to avenge the death of a friend who was murdered by drug dealers. Steele is a strict boss, but he is also secretly proud of his employees. His relationship with Cabot is controversial.
• Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot is actually engaged, but had an affair with Assistant District Attorney Jim Steele. She has a tense relationship with her colleague Jessica Rossi and is very suspicious. Before a drug lord convicted by her investigation died in prison, she had undergone a witness protection program because her life was in danger.
• Brian Peluso is a very laid back ADA. He often goes to parties and has a corresponding “woman consumption”. There are subtle indications of gambling and potential drug problems.
• Billy Desmond is smart, politically motivated, and never lost a case in his three years in the prosecutor's office. At first he seems more interested in winning cases and his political stature.
• Jessica Rossi is a very young public prosecutor who comes from a poor family. Because of her strained origins, she is a steadfast and often relentless ADA who often bypasses her bosses and takes great risks to punish the criminals she persecutes.
• Nick Potter is a new and inexperienced ADA. He graduated from New York University (NYU) Law School and comes from a prominent family. In the pilot, he leaves his high-paying job at a private law firm to get a position with the Manhattan District Attorney . Nick is drawn to Jessica Rossi. He is an idealist who wants to help his fellow man in every possible way, but his idealism and naivete always conflict with Steele's aggressive and authoritarian nature. After Nick falls victim to a robbery, his professionalism is called into question.
• Christina Finn is also an inexperienced public prosecutor who has only been with the DA for two years. She learns quickly and shows great potential.

Episode list

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director
1	-	pilot	03rd Mar 2006	-	Matt Reeves
2	-	Denial	17th Mar 2006	-	Norberto Barba
3	-	Breakup	17th Mar 2006	-	Randy Zisk
4th	-	Indebted	24 Mar 2006	-	Vincent Misiano
5	-	Savasana	31 Mar 2006	-	Caleb Deschanel
6th	-	Madness	0Apr 7, 2006	-	Caleb Deschanel
7th	-	True love	Apr 11, 2006	-	Jeffrey Reiner
8th	-	Downhill	Apr 14, 2006	-	Michael Fresco
9	-	The Wall	Apr 29, 2006	-	Steven DePaul
10	-	Deliverance	May 10, 2006	-	Vincent Misiano
11	-	Indiscretion	May 12, 2006	-	Elodie Keene
12	-	180.80	May 19, 2006	-	Norberto Barba
13	-	Hostage	May 19, 2006	-	Constantine Makris

useful information

• Stephanie March resumed her role as Alexandra Cabot on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2000 to 2003 and 2005 before returning to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit from 2009 to 2012 .
• After Conviction was discontinued in 2006, Julianne Nicholson got the role as Detective Megan Wheeler in the series Criminal Intent , the second offshoot of Law & Order , in the same year .

DVD

In the USA, the complete series with all 13 episodes was released on DVD on August 22, 2006 .

Web links

• Conviction in the Internet Movie Database (English)