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23. False-Hearted Judges

In the season finale, Detectives Goren and Eames suspect an imprisoned white supremacist is behind the shootings of a judge's family, but their investigation widens when an appellate judge is later murdered -- and other recent jurist slayings out West are tied to an embittered man who seeks revenge for controversial judicial decisions. Working with a few faint clues, the detectives' search for a vagabond father with child custody issues -- and a good rifle aim - who might be using his teenaged son to help him carry out his crimes.

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Following a near riot in a courtroom by a group of men in custody led by Wade Brownfeld ( Ari Fliakos ) who espouses anti government values, Judge E. Barton ( Susan Angelo ) is ambushed and killed in her home by two men who appear to be seasoned hunters. Days later an appellate court judge, Roland Thibodeaux ( Mark Kenneth Smaltz ), is assassinated by a sniper. As Goren and Eames investigate the killings, they suspect that a wider anti-judiciary conspiracy is afoot and four judges have been killed in recent years. Their investigation leads them to Lloyd Anson Wilkes ( David Andrews ) who lost custody of his son to his ex-wife through a court order and has "adopted" a young man, Clay Turner ( Jeremy Blackman ) of a similar age as his surrogate son. The detectives drive an emotional wedge between them by offering Wilkes an opportunity to meet his real son, convincing Turner that Wilkes may abandon him and prompting him to divulge their joint conspiracy to murder the judges.

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