Jet realizes: She didn’t just withhold evidence in Frankie’s case. She was fed false evidence by Judge Ellison’s late husband, who was covering for Leo. She was a pawn. But she chose to remain blind.
Jet almost laughs. Then Marcus recites Frankie Delgado’s old prison ID number. “Frankie and me, we were in the same shelter once. He told me about you. About the night you framed him.” cast of criminal justice season 2
– A second-generation cop of Afghan descent, Amina is brilliant but burned out. She solved the high-profile murder of Judge Ellison’s son, Leo Ellison , in record time—too fast, some whisper. She arrested Marcus Thorne (55) , a homeless Gulf War vet found asleep next to the body, the murder weapon (a ceremonial dagger) in his pack. But Amina’s gut is screaming. She begins pulling old case files and finds a link: the dagger was once stolen from a museum exhibit sponsored by… Judge Ellison himself. Jet realizes: She didn’t just withhold evidence in
The Reckoning of Silent Streets
Marcus is acquitted. The real killer is revealed: —not out of malice, but out of despair. The video shows Leo had also assaulted her younger brother, who later died of a fentanyl overdose after being prescribed painkillers for a broken jaw. Amina followed Leo to the pier, confronted him, and in a struggle, stabbed him with the dagger she’d stolen from the evidence locker of an old case (Frankie’s case). She then planted the dagger on Marcus. But she chose to remain blind
At Rikers, Jet interviews Marcus. He doesn’t deny being at the pier. He says Leo was already dead when he arrived. He was trying to remove the dagger—a ritual act of mercy from his medic days. “To take the weapon away,” Marcus says. “So his soul could leave.”