Annabeth tries to prove the guilt of a woman who says she killed her husband in self-defense.
Annabeth prosecutes a case involving a man who is accused of drugging and raping his teenage neighbor and discovers that he is a sexual deviant who is hiding a dark secret.
Annabeth suspects that the woman she is prosecuting for a Halloween murder is actually innocent and her father, a deacon, is the real culprit.
Annabeth and the team feel pressure from the Mayor when the wife of a wealthy and prominent businessman is murdered.
The community is unhappy with Annabeth and Conlon when they charge two football players with murder.
Annabeth and Maureen investigate the death of a father at a school function. There investigation leads them to a serious PTA organization and the scandal within it.
A local minister is murdered and Annabeth suspects the wife and the mistress, but when she finds out that a lot of money is missing from the church fund she reconsiders her theory.
When a disgruntled employee murders a coworker, Annabeth begins to take the case a little too personally. The man's two sons' fingerprints also show up on the gun, and Annabeth decides to prosecute them all and let the jury decide.
Annabeth prosecutes a man who took the law into his own hands and tries to shoot his son in law and in the process wounds one attorney and kills another. Annabeth feels conflicted when she realizes that the initial case may have been mishandled and that her associate, Doug Hellman knew about it and did nothing to stop it.
The defense argues that their client suffers from severe depression and had a psychotic break which was triggered by the anniversary of his mother's death. Annabeth and Maureen argue that the defendant's behavior is part of a larger pattern of drunken violence and he must be brought to justice. The case takes a turn when secrets are revealed about the first murder, leaving Annabeth to question the details of both cases.
A man gets out of his car and after getting into a fight, he shoots the other man. The defense claims it was self-defense, but Annabeth doesn't think his story matches the evidence. She thinks the man is hiding something. Meanwhile, Maureen appeals the vehicular homicide ruling for the drunk driver who killed Annabeth's husband.
An anesthesiologist is accused of murder when her patient dies on the table during a routine surgery. The case starts as malpractice, but become a criminal case when the victim's husband won't accept the medical board's ruling that the death was accidental. Annabeth prosecutes the case and argues that the doctor intentionally killed the victim because the victim prevented the doctor from being accepted into an exclusive country club.
During the investigation of a murder of a college student, Ray and Ed discover that the boy's death may be linked with a gambling ring led out of a college student's house. To complicate matters a juror hears a witness admit that he was paid to lie on the stand forcing a mistrial. Meanwhile, Conlon's daughter visits colleges.
A surrogate mother is found dead in her home and Annabeth must prosecute the biological mother.
The Dean of a prestigious prep school is arrested for murdering his Russian wife who he found on the Internet. Annabeth must prosecute the case against the defense's claim that the victim committed suicide. Meanwhile, Conlon asks an old friend to help the prosecutor's team beat the public defenders in a basketball game.
Annabeth and Conlon fight about whether or not to seek the death penalty for a defendant in a murder case who is diagnosed as being developmentally disabled.
A recovering alcoholic writes a letter to the woman he raped 11 years earlier at a frat party. Annabeth uses the fact that the woman was drugged to get the statute of limitations lifted so she can try the case.
When a woman is attacked and her husband murdered while they are home sleeping, the woman identifies her son as the attacker. However, she later retracts her statement but Annabeth believes she's only doing so to protect her son.
While prosecuting a drug dealer for the murder of a police officer, Annabeth uncovers possible police corruption and a dirty cop who has members of his team involved in illegal activity.
Although she is still receiving death threats from the first trial, Annabeth pushes to prosecute an accused dirty cop, Veeder, again after a missing witness, who could have helped convict him, is found dead.
The D.A.'s office attempts to put an end to the web of police corruption plaguing the city. While at a meeting Maureen is murdered. Annabeth must find her killer and in order to do so, she has to make another deal with Veeder. Meanwhile, Conlon must fend off accusations that he was aware of his campaign managers corruption.