Benson, Amiri and others in “Unfinished Business”

Benson

Mr. Amiri, we've also become aware that Mr. Rhodes was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.

I'm sure that's true for half my cases. But the government doesn't pardon murderers because they had a bad childhood.

Ellis

Look, it took me 15 minutes to find out that the deceased had a record for solicitation of young men. I need to prove that the original defense lawyer to tell the jury about mitigating circumstances. Period.

Mr. Ellis, what we do is triage. I've got people on death row for crimes they didn't commit. You think you can come in and do a better job? Have at it.

Ellis

Thank you. That's all I wanted to hear.