The Defenders: Taking the First
- Release Year
 - 1998
 - Runtime
 - 1h 36m
 - Genres
 - Drama
 - TV Movie
 
- Directed By
 - Andy Wolk
 

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.








