The Defenders: Taking the First
The Defenders: Taking the First
The Defenders: Taking the First Online is Free. A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Country: United States
- Director: Andy Wolk
- Cast: Beau Bridges, Martha Plimpton, Jeremy London, Jordan Bridges, Clifton Collins Jr., Philip Casnoff, Mimi Kuzyk, Camilla Scott, Diego Fuentes, Marilo Nunez, Nancy Palk, Lili Francks, Jeff Topping, Kristen Holden-Ried, Richard Fitzpatrick, Christopher Redman, Bernard Behrens, Donna Goodhand, Robert Bockstael, J. Winston Carroll, Sugith Varughese,