Deputy District Attorney Steele is forced to prosecute Evan, a 14-year-old boy 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 DA Peluso investigates a promising high school athlete Rashard, arrested for a hate crime against a gay man who was blackmailing him. Rossi tries to babysit an addicted prostitute to testify in her own rape trial. Also, a jealous Steele checks on Rossi's romantic activities; Finn preps for a blind date and Peluso tries to help out a loan shark to whom he's in debt.

Nick Potter goes on a ride along with two ghetto cops, landing Potter in a meeting with Internal Affairs; Jessica Rossi 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 gets caught up in a case with a spoiled diplomat's son and a strip club.