The Defenders: Choice of Evils

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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.

Released: Jan 18, 1998

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Beau Bridges

Don Preston

E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Preston

Martha Plimpton

Mary Jane Preston

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