Hope, the defense attorney, believes Mary Barton is innocent of murdering 3 young girls, but evidence convicts her until a long buried secret is revealed.

Prosecutor Kerry McGrath puts her life and that of her daughter in peril when she reopens the case of the "Sweetheart Murder" after noticing that a plastic surgeon has been giving other women the victim's face.

Former Santa Barbara D.A. Luke Garrison, having retreated to the wilds of northern California after sending an innocent man to the death chamber, returns to the legal arena to defend a man he believes has been wrongfully accused of abducting and killing a fourteen-year-old girl.

Real-estate agent Lacey Farrell, accidently walked in on a murder. The dying victim entrusts her with a journal that contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program can not keep Lacey safe.

Probation officer Nile Eddgar is accused of arranging for a drive-by shooting that killed his mother and the case stirs up a lot of old, best forgotten secrets, when it is brought before Judge Sonny Klonsky who spent her turbulent college years in the company of Nile's father, a leading campus revolutionary in the 1960s.

Defense attorney Christopher Paget becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his lover's estranged husband.

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

Attorney Andy Carpenter struggles to free an innocent man convicted of murder, but his case hinges on the memory of his only eye witness, a golden retriever.

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.