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Defense attorney Richard Ramsey (Keanu Reeves) takes on a private case. He swears to his widowed friend Loretta Lasseter (Renée Zellweger) that he will keep her son Mike (Gabriel Basso) out of jail. Mike, who was charged with murdering his biological father, initially pleaded guilty. But as the trial progressed, horrific evidence of his father, Boone Lasseter Jim Belushi, emerged. Ramsay uses the evidence to try to exonerate his client, while his new colleague Janel (Gugu Mbataraau) tries to dig deeper - and begins to realize the whole truth only she can unravel. 1].

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  • Ramsey: At some point, every defense lawyer has to choose between his own need to know the truth and the best interests of his client.

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    Ramsey: [narrating] When the court officer smiled at me on the morning of trial, I knew I was fucked. They weren't taking bets on this one. Mike had killed his father, Boone Lassiter - left his handprint on the knife - confessed.

    Ramsey: Half my cases had evidence this bad. I just pled them out, got manslaughter and moved on. But this was Mike, and I'd known him all his life. He was going to college and probably law school, and I doubted his mother could survive him going to the penitentiary.

    Ramsey: But I knew Boone, I had that. And I knew enough about the Lassiter household to know that Mike had a defense - if he would just talk to me.