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  • NBC
  • Mar 3, 2006
  • NBC
  • Mar 3, 2006

Summary "Conviction", a new legal drama from Dick Wolf (‘Law & Order’-brand series), focuses on young assistant district attorneys in New York as they struggle with a demanding case load that challenges their lack of experience. Although this is not a spin-off of any "Law & Order" show, this show still takes place in that universe, proven by Ste...

Created By: Dick Wolf

  • NBC
  • Mar 3, 2006
  • NBC
  • Mar 3, 2006
Conviction
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 3, 2006
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary "Conviction", a new legal drama from Dick Wolf (‘Law & Order’-brand series), focuses on young assistant district attorneys in New York as they struggle with a demanding case load that challenges their lack of experience. Although this is not a spin-off of any "Law & Order" show, this show still takes place in that universe, proven by Ste...

Created By: Dick Wolf

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Episode 1 • Mar 3, 2006 • 44 m
Pilot
On Nick Potter's first day as an assistant district attorney, a fellow A.D.A. is gunned down.
Episode 2 • Mar 17, 2006 • 44 m
Denial
Steele must charge a 14-year-old-boy who murdered his brother as an adult.
Episode 3 • Mar 17, 2006 • 44 m
Breakup
Finn (Julianne Nicholson) investigates the suspicious suicide of a 12-year-old girl whose mother said her daughter was dying of cancer, but her autopsy shows otherwise.
Episode 4 • Mar 24, 2006 • 44 m
Indebted
Billy Desmond (J. August Richards) is enlisted to prosecute a superstar rap producer charged with murder.
Episode 5 • Mar 31, 2006 • 55 m
Savasana
Finn (Julianne Nicholson) gets dragged into a tragic shaken baby case and the decision to pull life support from the infant.
Episode 6 • Apr 7, 2006 • 55 m
Madness
Billy Desmond's routine shift at a psychiatric ward turns the system upside down. Brian Peluso's girlfriend pressures him.
Episode 7 • Apr 11, 2006 • 42 m
True Love
Nick Potter is robbed and beaten at gunpoint after trying to get a witness to testify. Brian Peluso gets ready to move in with his girlfriend.
Episode 8 • Apr 14, 2006 • 42 m
Downhill
Episode 9 • Apr 28, 2006 • 43 m
The Wall
Desmond and Steele face an uphill battle when they prosecute a case stemming from the death of a teen in a choking game.
Episode 10 • May 10, 2006 • 44 m
Deliverance
A respected female attorney kills her husband, and goes head-to-head against Jim Steele when she decides to defend herself in the courtroom.
Episode 11 • May 12, 2006 • 41 m
Indiscretion
Jim tries to prosecute a rape case, but the plaintiff's father stands in the way. Nick takes over an easy drug case from Jessica, but bungles it.
Episode 12 • May 19, 2006 • 1 h 25 m
180.80
A club's bouncer is the prime suspect when a young woman is murdered after leaving an after-hours bar.
Episode 13 • May 19, 2006
Hostage
Two suspects take the courtroom hostage, and try to negotiate their way out using members from the DA's office.
Episode 15 • 45 m
Imposter
Episode 18
Death Race
Episode 19
Zodiac

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
44
17% Positive
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43% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
44
17% Positive
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
10 Reviews
39% Negative
9 Reviews

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70
The series is smart and engrossing, though not in a particularly novel way, and that is not a bad thing.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW
60
As with most things Wolf, it is superbly cast, almost too well... But every small role is well cast too -- the judges, the defendants, the policemen. They help create a lively world that's more believable than it sometimes deserves to be, and it is almost always engaging.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Maybe they all graduated from the Melrose Place College of Law.
By Mike Duffy FULL REVIEW
40
The odd thing about "Conviction" is the awkward way it lurches between the legal maneuverings and the personal issues of the central characters. While the courtroom scenes are entertaining, if frequently obvious, the up-close-and-personal stuff is what proves to be a real trial.
By Mark Dawidziak FULL REVIEW
30
The characters' lives just aren't fascinating, and by reverting to a more traditional way of telling crime stories, Wolf simply reminds us how superior his other version is.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
25
Despite the obvious, desperate attempts to inject youth appeal, Conviction is as tired as it is undistinguished.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
20
A far cry from Boston Legal or even The Practice, this is so clumsy in its mix of the procedural and the personal that it should barely be legal.
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW

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