The Defenders: Choice of Evils
★ 4.5 · 1998 · 95m · Drama · TV Movie
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.
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