Dismissed With Prejudice

A federal judge is gunned down in what looks like a carjacking, and a young dockworker with a minor record becomes the perfect suspect. Court-appointed defense attorney Ana Morales takes the case expecting long odds—but when she discovers a gap in the judge's own docket, the evidence begins pointing away from her client and toward a conspiracy that stretches from the Louisiana bayous to the highest levels of corporate power. With a dead witness, a hospitalized investigator, and a city that wants her silenced, Ana has nine days to prove that the real crime was never the murder—it was making sure no one asked who ordered it.