Jack Philips, once promising professional soccer player, now burned out criminal defense attorney in Brooklyn. He is beset by clients who can't pay: drug dealers, drunks, and assorted petty crooks, and haunted by the realization that he is nothing more than a bit player in the so-called "criminal justice system." Somehow, he still hopes for that moment of glory denied. So, when a retired NYPD Internal Affairs detective retains him, at a better than average fee, to defend her nephew, things look up. The nephew is accused of the attempt rape and strangulation murder of a fashionable, blonde,...