A teenage boy on trial for murdering his mother and shooting her fiancé.

An investigator for the prosecution who believes the young man is innocent, and the fiancé staged the scene.

Both stand to inherit millions from the woman’s death. However, Florida has a slayer statute which states that anyone responsible for the death of another cannot benefit from that person’s murder.

The evidence is ambiguous, but the line in the sand is clear.

Be seated. The trial is getting ready to begin.

When a robbery detective resigns his job from the sheriff’s office because he has a problem with arresting people and taking away their freedom, or worse, he is hired by his long-time friend as an investigator at the prosecutor’s office. In his new job, he will only be preparing cases for trial—no arrests. But in his first assignment, he finds himself questioning the guilt of the young man accused of killing his mother, and learns there is forensic evidence against the defendant that can be interpreted in more than one way. This propels him along a course, pitting him against his boss and the original investigating detective, with a suspenseful ending in the middle of the trial, or so it seems.