A prominent black man is arrested for buying crack. His lawyer says
he was framed, set up by a racist white cop
It is left to a jury of six (as is the case in misdemeanors and many
civil cases in New York State), a racially mixed group of five women
and one man, to decide who is telling the truth
This they do over three brutal, often explosive days of harrowing
deliberation, as we take a peek behind the one door that will always
remain closed to us - the door to the jury room
"Sutton is capable of focusing a viewer's attention in ways news
cannot. Rather than pouring over the facts of the case, Sutton
concentrates on the way the facts are interpreted by the members
of the jury - how they are colored, as it were, by each individual's
life experiences
The play also demonstrates that the notion of a jury of one's peers
is not as simple as it sounds. In a society divided by race and
class, one's peers can be difficult, if not impossible, to identify"
~ Variety