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15. Wrongful Life

A crucial file in an ugly $20-million lawsuit may be the catalyst behind the murder of a daring young man who was killed while trying to steal evidence for a "wrongful life" court case -- all of which has Detectives Goren and Eames sorting through a dysfunctional family looking for likely suspects who might want the documents. While the son is a prime suspect, the key clues could lie with his bitter mother Victoria who is suing a doctor for not revealing years earlier that her unborn daughter had a debilitating orthopedic problem -- a fact which could have prompted her to abort the baby.

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Detectives Goren and Eames are called in to investigate the death of a young man, Eric Newsome ( Vincent Piazza ) who is found dead in a building's water tower and find that he was with his sister, Nikki ( Jessica Collins ) and a friend in a break-in adventure. While investigating Newsome's activities, they find that he broke in and stole a file relevant to a $20-million lawsuit being brought by Victoria Carson ( Talia Balsam ) the mother of Nikki's boyfriend, Drew Ramsey ( Jonathan Tucker ), for a " wrongful life " court case over her daughter Lisa ( Alison Pill ) who was born with spina bifida. The detectives discover that Newsome found letter which indicated that self-interested Victoria Carson avoided a test of the fetus which may have indicated the probability of spina bifida so she could marry her fiancée, the son of the wealthy Carson family which undermined her lawsuit. Drew confesses to the murder but the detectives convince him to implicate his mother for directing him to do it so that his sister Lisa, would not be left in the custody of her uncaring mother.

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