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Set amidst the shock and trauma of life after 9/11, "Homeland" meets "Law & Order" in this thirteen-part dramatic series that features Celilianne (CeCe) Porter, a young Black associate in a large New York City law firm, who convinces Danny Saylor, a young partner in the firm, to team with her to defend Jumah Nuveen, a detainee at the detention camp operated by the United States government at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  A gold trader in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nuveen has been falsely accused of murdering Colonel Kyle Mitchell, an American Air Force colonel in Pakistan.  Aided by their eccentric colleague, Janusz Vandergard, an older partner with a mysterious past and bitter secrets of his own, CeCe and Danny begin to suspect that Jumah may not have killed Colonel Mitchell.  Finding evidence to clear their client, though, is nearly impossible when the charges arise from events that took place halfway around the world.
    A US Army investigator, Colonel Harold Phillips, who is finalizing the investigation into Colonel Mitchell’s murder in preparation for Phillips' testimony against Nuveen, is beginning to have doubts of his own about Jumah’s guilt.  Phillips' investigation brings him into conflict with Mitchells’s superiors in the Air Force and with John Silver, Doug Bronson, and Rick Pettrone, the brutal operatives of a sinister government contractor, Edgewater Security, that is engaged in suspicious covert operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Edgewater and the Air Force do everything they can to halt Phillips' efforts to dig deeper into Mitchell’s death.  At the same time, to vindicate the government’s detention policies at Guantanamo, Phillips is under tremendous pressure from the highest levels of the US government to ensure that Nuveen is convicted.  Struggling to balance his obligation to testify against Nuveen with his fear that they may have the wrong man, Phillips' battle with his own conscience becomes the tipping point of the trial.
    Casting a spotlight on the self-indulgence and overwrought drama of a multi-national law firm, “The Laws of Right and Wrong” takes a searing look at the raw politics of Guantanamo and at the unauthorized private activities government contractors undertake for their own personal benefit.  "The Laws of Right and Wrong" is a legal thriller wrapped in a mystery surrounded by the dangers created by dishonest government and private operatives trapped in their own dirty worlds.