''Sweet Justice'' is an American
legal drama
Legal drama, also called courtroom drama, is a genre of film and television that generally focuses on narratives regarding legal practice and the justice system. The American Film Institute (AFI) defines "courtroom drama" as a genre of film in wh ...
television series created by John Romano and starring
Cicely Tyson and
Melissa Gilbert. The hour-long series ran from September 15, 1994, to August 12, 1995, on
NBC.
The series was produced by Trotwood Productions in association with Columbia Pictures Television.
Premise
Attorney Kate Delacroy (
Melissa Gilbert) returns to
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
from
Wall Street for her sister's engagement party and decides to stay. Instead of joining the prestigious law firm headed by her arch conservative father, James-Lee (
Ronny Cox), she joins forces with old civil rights warrior Carrie Grace Battle (
Cicely Tyson) in Battle-Ross & Associates, the better to take on cases of women's rights, minority rights, and everyone else's rights.
Cast and characters
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Melissa Gilbert as Kate Delacroy, a novice
Wall Street attorney
*
Greg Germann as Andy Del Sarto, a passionate upstate attorney
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Cicely Tyson as Carrie Grace Battle, a feminist, civil rights lawyer and senior partner of a New Orleans law firm
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Ronny Cox as James Lee Delacroy, Kate's father, a senior partner in the town's old-money-and-big business law firm
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Jason Gedrick as Bailey Connors, Kate's high school sweetheart, a journalist
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Cree Summer as Reese Daulkins, an energetic attorney and single mother
*Jim Antonio as Ross A. Ross
*Megan Gallivan as Anne Delacroy-Foley
*Scott Paetty as Harry Foley
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Marcia Strassman as Althea "Bunny" McClure
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John Allen Nelson as Logan Wright
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Michael Warren as Michael "T-Dog" Turner
Episodes
Awards and nominations
Tyson was nominated for an
Emmy Award
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and a
Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role on the series.
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, 0108948
1994 American television series debuts
1995 American television series endings
1990s American legal drama television series
American English-language television shows
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Television shows set in Louisiana
NBC television dramas