- Assistant district attorney Charles Parker considers accepting a position in the Preston and Preston law firm. However, the Prestons are set to defend Richard Holmes on a charge of murdering the man who raped his wife and caused a breakdown that institutionalized her. When Parker is assigned to prosecute the Holmes case, a conflict of interest charge arises.—Skip Eastport
- Richard Holmes waits for a man to be released from prison and then empties his revolver into him. When he is interviewed by prosecutor Charles Parker, Holmes says the man he killed raped his wife and no jury will convict him. Parker has been offered a partnership with the Prestons but when Homes retains their services, Parker realizes he is in the fight of his life - he must win the case or be suspected of intentionally losing it in order to gain favor with his new partners. Holmes' wife is now in a mental institution and Parker visits her. Convinced that she is mentally ill, Parker offers to reduce the charge to manslaughter and is shocked when the elder Preston rejects the offer on the basis that no jury will convict his client. Holmes makes a poor witness at his trial and the elder Preston feels compelled call Holmes' wife to the stand. When Mrs. Holmes admits that her mental breakdown occurred after she identified her rapist and not immediately after the rape itself, Parker gets her to admit that her photo identification was false - she just wanted to stop the endless questions about the rape from her husband and the police. Holmes killed the wrong man and he is convicted of first-degree murder. Parker turns down the partnership with the Prestons because the city needs good prosecutors like him who would have been able to discover Mrs. Holmes' falsehood so that the dead man would not have been convicted unjustly.
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