Allison defends a man who was caught counterfeiting wine and finds herself on the receiving end of his charms. Rattled by the news he received, Nicholas refuses to impose the same sentence to Rodrigo, infuriating Roger. Sandra and Seth go up against one another in the case of Rodrigo Puente, a courier who was caught with 57 grams of meth, 7 grams over the limit for a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence. When Nicholas receives news that a young kid, whom he once sentenced to jail for being present in a house where a raid happened and drugs were found, was beaten to death, he starts questioning the system. However, as they dig deeper, they find some inconsistencies in her story and start to notice some erratic behavior from their client, which hits close to home for Jill. The federal public defenders all work together on the case of Chloe Daniels, who assaulted a postal worker in self-defense. Instead, Seth decides to press charges against the company's CEO to gain more money and push reforms. The case only gets tougher when Seth has to go up against a condescending attorney from his old firm, who attempts to appease him with a fund that the company set up to aid the victims. Seth risks his already friable reputation when he pushes to make a case against a company that pollutes the drinking water in his hometown, resulting in several sick children in his former elementary school. On his continuous quest to impress Roger, Leonard uses information from a romantic fling working for the Eastern District to make sure a prestigious case lands in the Southern District. Allison's case is troubled when the judge decides to use an algorithm that evaluates the defendant's recidivism rate, which would disadvantage her client. In doing so, they discover each other's motivations behind their work drive and why they chose for their respective sides of the justice system. Kate and Sandra go head-to-head on a case about a whistleblower that leaked documents indicating that the NSA abuses medical files to search for undocumented immigrants. Leonard feels sidelined after his big win and attempts to impress Roger by parading his mother, senator Knox, around the office. Allison is convinced Seth will move back in, but he thinks otherwise. Seth is paired with Kate as they have to figure out a way to make a case out of years worth of investigation into prescription-drug fraud.
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Sandra decides to defend the woman pro bono. At work, she faces off with Tina upon overhearing her turning down a woman with a disabled son who are facing eviction because she filed a document five minutes late. Sandra has trouble adjusting to her new home. Allison asks Sandra to move in with her indefinitely and they decide they are worthy of The Mother Court.Īfter the disappointing result on his first case, Jay has to step and set aside his personal beliefs to defend a white supremacist who allegedly shot an assemblywoman at a rally. Jay is fooled by his con artist client while going up against procedural guru Kate.
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The lines between their personal and professional lives are blurred when Allison uses a private conversation in court to win the case, leading to Seth being put on probation and leaving Allison.
After Leonard steals Seth's terrorism case against Sandra, Seth is left to go up against his girlfriend Allison on an insider trading case. Chief of the Criminal Division Roger Gunn introduces Kate Littlejohn, Seth Oliver, and Leonard Knox to his department. FPD Jill Carlan welcomes Sandra Bell, Allison Adams, and Jay Simmons to her office. The new federal public defenders and AUSAs are introduced to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York by Chief Judge Nicholas Byrne and Clerk of Court Tina Krissman. Filming for the second season began on September 23, 2018. After re-shooting the pilot and shooting the second episode with the new actresses, production was temporarily shut down in September 2017 in order to rewrite existing scripts for the rest of the season to adjust the show to Robertson and Brown's new dynamic. Both roles were later recast with Britt Robertson as Black (renamed Sandra Bell) and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Anderson (renamed Allison Adams).
Set in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Federal Court, known as "The Mother Court", For the People follows new lawyers-both prosecutors and federal public defenders-as they handle the most high-profile and high-stakes cases and their personal lives intersect.
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