Great episode. Wouldn't it be nice if judges and lawyers actually had this level of integrity? This kind of passion? This kind of romance to the Spirit of the law? Yes it would be nice. I like shows like this because they show what could be. Unfortunately this is just a show, a drama, a fairy tale dreamed up by writers and acted out by professional actors. This doesn't reflect reality but, oh man, wouldn't it be nice if it did.

... with the emotional content of these episodes. I admit I'm a guy and like all the crime elements. but in this case I think the emotional turmoil of the DA and defence attorney was handled extremely well. It was a lose - lose situation and while it didn't tear them apart as friends it came close and showed how neither of them agreed with the outcome they both agreed that they had a duty to do their job and they both came through in the end.

It was wonderful that because of the 6th Amendment, cases are decided by "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed", a jury of one's peers was able to know that an otherwise law-abiding citizen was entrapped into committing a crime.My view of prosecutors vs. defense attorneys is that we need both to be at the top of their games each day. I view the entire law-enforcement wing of any government as heros that protect us all by putting bad guys in prison so they can't harm us. I view the defense attorneys to be defenders of the U.S. Constitution who are a check on prosecutors' power. I agree with Judge Hillar on why the U.S. Constitution was written; for the innocent, but with that protection comes the bad and the ugly presumption of innocence. I would cry at the verdict too but it is better to let 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man to be sent to jail or something like that. Despite this, I still say:"God Bless the United States of America!"

This my favorite episode in the whole series. I cried at the very end not because the killer was release but how the scene was delivered. Yes, truly very powerful. I could really feel the emotion of Helen Gamble, Lindsey Dole and Judge Zoe. Epic!