What happens in “The Law of Innocence”

Warning: This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the third season of The Lincoln Lawyer and Michael Connelly’s The Law of Innocence.

The romance The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly Provides Exciting Potential Spoilers for Netflix Lincoln’s lawyer season 4. The legal drama, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Becki Newton, adapts the best-selling book series in a thrilling way. Adaptation of seasons 1, 2 and 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer The bronze verdict, The Fifth Witnessand The Gods of Guiltrespectively. While Lincoln’s lawyer Season 3 made some changes to The Gods of Guiltkept the twist ending that sets up The Law of Innocence.

Mickey is stopped for no license plate and the police officer discovers Sam Scales’ body in the trunk. The obvious assumption is that Mickey killed his old client. The Law of Innocence continues this storyline, revealing many twists and turns that may appear in Lincoln’s lawyer season 4.

Mickey Haller arrested for the murder of Sam Scales

Mickey is accused of the murder of his former client

The twisted ending of Lincoln’s lawyer season 3 sets up the plot of season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Law of Innocence. Mickey is charged with first-degree murder and faces the possibility of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He must build his own case and discover the person who framed him for murder with the help of his team. which includes his cousin Harry Bosch, a private investigator. Lincoln’s lawyer season 4 will follow this storyline, without the character Bosch, as Netflix does not own the rights to the character.

Mickey chooses to stay behind bars rather than pay bail

Mickey defends himself inside prison

After Mickey is accused of first-degree murder in The Law of Innocence, A judge sets his bail at an excessively high $5 million because of a grudge over an old case. The court eventually reduces the amount to $2.5 million, which is much closer to the $2 million base amount for the crime in Los Angeles courts (via 2024 Criminal Bail Schedule).

Thanks to the bail agents, Mickey would only need to pay 10% of the bail amount; however, he chooses to stay behind bars. Since he is helping Hayley while she studies law, he has no money to pay and is unwilling to stop funding his daughter’s education. Consequently, he will have to stay behind bars for the entire trial, planning most of his defense in the prison library while his team helps investigate the crime and frame the work externally.

A mobster named Opparizio killed Sam Scales

Opparizio achieves two goals with one murder

The biggest question that comes Lincoln’s lawyer season 4 is who killed Sam Scales and why they framed Mickey Haller. The Law of Innocence answers this question by connecting the events of the murder to a previous plot. Lincoln’s lawyerSam Scales was a con man who preyed on people who cared about vulnerable communities. Before his death, he carried out a scam under the guise of converting used cooking oil into biofuel.

Unfortunately, he negatively impacted the revenue of BioGreen Industries, a company run by a mobster named Louis Opparizio – the book equivalent to Alex Grant’s Lincoln’s lawyer season 2. He killed Sam Scales for the hit and put the body in Mickey’s trunk as revenge for the events of Lisa Trammel’s trial, where he implicated the mobster.

Hayley Haller decides to be a defense lawyer instead of a prosecutor

Mickey Haller’s trial changes Hayley’s perspective on the law

At the end of Lincoln’s lawyer In the third season, Hayley Haller reveals that she wants to pursue law, but that she is interested in being a prosecutor, not a defense lawyer. This reflects the Lincoln Lawyer series where Hayley Haller practices criminal law. At the beginning of The Law of Innocenceshe is studying law, having graduated from university. She has every intention of becoming a prosecutor when she graduates. However, his intended career changes after Mickey is wrongly accused of first-degree murder.

She already expressed at the end of Lincoln’s lawyer Season 3 that innocent people deserve lawyers who represent them effectively, and Mickey’s situation shows this to Hayley, making her want to be a defense lawyer instead of a prosecutor. Because of the age difference between Hayley in the books and the Netflix series, it is unlikely that she will already be in college and studying law when Mickey’s trial begins. However, she could still change her mind about her career even if her career started further down the line.

The FBI keeps Mickey in prison even though they know he was framed

The FBI puts its own interests ahead of Mickey’s freedom

In The Law of Innocencethe FBI has a massive investigation into Louis Opparizio and his company BioGreen Industries, which Cisco and Jennifer Aronson know. Even if the FBI discovers that Mickey was being framed, they do not disclose this information to the district attorney, prosecutors, or the LAPD. Although Judge Violet Warfield has subpoenaed agents to testify in Mickey Haller’s court case, the FBI refuses to comply, which falls under the Lincoln’s lawyer Season 3’s themes of corruption and misconduct within the government and police.

Mickey’s charges were dropped, but he was not found innocent

The FBI pressures the district attorney to drop the charges

Instead of being found innocent by a jury, Mickey Haller’s court case ends unexpectedly. As the FBI is pressured to allow its agents to testify in Mickey’s court case, they find a way to do the right thing by the wrongfully accused defense attorney without publicly revealing their investigation into BioGreen Industries. They go to the Los Angeles district attorney with their evidence about Opparizio killing Sam Scales, and the prosecutor’s office decides to drop the charges against Mickey.

Unfortunately for Mickey, when the charges are dropped, it doesn’t mean they are legally innocent. It simply means they are no longer being accused of a crime. As such, dropped charges are not entirely satisfactory to the defense attorney, who likes to win in a trial rather than out of court. Additionally, Opparizio is not accused and convicted of the crime, which would have effectively rendered Mickey innocent.

Mickey Haller and Maggie McPherson get back together

Mickey and Maggie Rekindle Their Romance Just Before COVID-19 Lockdown

An imminent event in The Law of Innocence is a mysterious illness that turns out to be COVID-19. At the end of the book, Mickey and Maggie rebuild their romantic connection and decide to quarantine together. Why Lincoln’s lawyer apparently set in the present day, the fourth season of the Netflix series will likely eliminate the quarantine element, even as the couple rekindles their relationship. However, there is also the possibility that Lincoln’s lawyer will forego the on-and-off relationship because they built a relationship between Andy and Mickey in the third season.