8 parts Complete MatureSilky-smooth and self-reliant, legendary teacher Bradford Slater is ripping through slide after slide of paintings from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Then a single gunshot at close range kills him. Even a community accustomed to violence is stunned. A troubled student is the prime suspect. His father, a cop. Another day, another homicide, but this one is different.
Set in the courtrooms of our nation's capital, D.A. Diaries explores the explosive combat zone of urban trial law through the eyes of Clay Franklin, an experienced homicide prosecutor. Saddled with an unforgiving and punishing workload of violent offenders, Clay is equally dedicated to chasing women, but the return of the girl that got away forces Clay to reexamine his life.
The euphoria of Clay's rekindled relationship is overwhelmed by a progression of devastating events as witnesses go silent, and a corrupt clan of police officers seeks to protect the prime suspect as the political pressure rises to bring the murderer to justice. From weird, to bad, to worse, Clay's indiscretion with a witness from the case threatens both his personal life and his career, sending the superstar of the homicide unit into the abyss. Clay is a passionate individual, revealed through his observations and conversations with his cynical pals at the D.A.'s office, crooked cops, drug-addled witnesses, and his burned-out psychiatrist. He sees the legal system, his dysfunctional family, and our nation's capital through a unique lens that is at once comedic, troubling, and honest.