The Last Defense - Season 1 (2018)

Darlie's defense team explores alternative theories and lays out its strategy for a retrial.

In 1999, 19-year-old former high school basketball state champion and star football player Julius Jones was arrested days after a businessman was gunned down by a black man in a white suburb of Oklahoma City. At the time of the murder, Julius was a student at the University of Oklahoma on a partial academic scholarship, attempting to walk on to the basketball team. Nineteen years later, we hear from Tommy Griffin, father of NBA superstar Blake Griffin, who coached Julius; and in interviews from death row, Julius tells his version of events while federal public ...

The State calls their star witness, Christopher Jordan, who testifies he was there when Julius pulled the trigger. Julius and his family watch as his defense takes this last opportunity to save him, but there are missed opportunities to hear Julius' side of the story, and a critical piece of evidence is never shown to the jury. The clock is ticking for Julius, but two witnesses have come forward in his favor since the conviction, and he now holds out hope thanks to his current lawyers.

With Julius Jones at the top of the state of Oklahoma's list of impending executions, federal public defenders Amanda Bass and Dale Baich are in a race to win a new trial. When new evidence comes to light, there may be hope for Julius.