Explicit Bias — Gary Reed

In his first capital murder trial, attorney Devin Garner defends a young physician accused of killing his wife. The crucial evidence against his client is a video the wife made on her cell phone, shortly before her own brutal murder, of her husband and a sexy Filipino nurse going into a hot sheets motel. The prosecutor is running for higher office on an anti-immigration and anti-Muslim platform. Informed that the physician is an immigrant from Syria, he concludes that the murdered woman confronted her husband, and being Muslim and a Middle Easterner, he lost his temper and killed her. The young physician claims that he and the nurse were checking up on the desperately ill toddlers of an undocumented woman. He says his wife was taking a class on documentary making and made the video for the documentary she and her classmates were making on the plight of the undocumented. The dead woman's best friend and partner in the documentary class reveals a secret that provides yet another, and more chilling, explanation for the cell phone video at the heart of the case â€" one that puts Garner's own life in jeopardy. Can Garner discover in time who killed his client's wife? At a time when politicians are telling the public to be afraid of immigrants, can he convince a judge and jury that his client is innocent? If he does, will he pay the ultimate price?