Against the advice of a veteran clerk, Amy agrees to review a prior murder case ruling. Peter must decide whether medical treatment will continue for his wife.
Gillian reveals that she had a near-death experience during Walt's delivery; Maxine pleads with the police to publicize the disappearance of a foster child; Kyle and Lily have an intense encounter in a hospital elevator.
Maxine criticizes Amy for ruling that an emotionally distraught girl is competent to serve as a witness in her mother's murder trial; Kyle has to give medical treatment to a drunken driver who killed one of his co-workers on the road; when Lauren receives a poor grade in math she blames it on the teacher.
Amy presides over the case of a prominent athletic star accused of rape; Maxine considers selling the diner under the pressure of having to move; Kyle tries to locate a kidney for a young patient who needs a transplant.
After being accused of hitting a priest with his car, a young man decides he wants to represent himself in court; as an exercise in self-learning, Gillian writes her own obituary.
When a lawyer exhibits inappropriate conduct during the closing arguments in a capital murder case, Amy is forced to stop the trial.
Amy has second thoughts about marriage; Stu tells the groomsmen that he wants them to wear kilts at the wedding.
Amy is sent to judicial counseling after she sets aside the verdict in a felony murder trial.
Amy must decide the fate of a baby torn between an Amish mother and a father that wants to raise the child in the regular world; Amy runs into David at a private school open house.
Amy tries to determine whether a DJ's provocative views on women are influencing his son's development.
Amy must rule on whether a pro-anorexia website is responsible for the death of a teenage girl; Maxine hires a new gardner.
Amy must oversee a case being prosecuted by the ADA she went on a date with; The new gardener asks Maxine to go salsa dancing.
Amy oversees a case where a teenager hires a man to impersonate his father to keep from being placed in the custody of his mother; Maxine learns that a cycle of abuse in a family might be the grandmother's fault.
Amy deals with a case in which she must decide whether or not to place a boy in the custody of his father, who is in thw witness protection program; Maxine tries to stop a high-school suicide pact.
Amy presides over a routine case involving a broken bicycle which ends up revealing a case of teen incest.
Amy deals with a custody dispute over a 9-year-old child that was conceived through a rape; Maxine meets Ignacio's family and realizes that her family is more well adjusted than she thought.
When a woman leaves her children at home alone while she is at work she tries to regain custody of them; Kyle gets emotionally involved with the birth of a child who's mother is in jail.
A teenage girl is recruited for prostitution while living in a group foster home; A woman with Alzheimer's risks losing her foster child due to the disease.
Amy presides over a hearing to grant Danny Hawkins a new murder trial; a foster mother uses her children as nude models in her photography work.
Amy must decide if there is enough evidence to put a teenage girl on trial for killing her baby-sitter; Maxine stumbles upon a case of abuse when a photo lab accidentally gives Ignacio the wrong pictures.
A celebrity attorney complicates a juvenile theft case.
Amy oversees a case where a boy wants to quit school to join the circus.
Amy sentences a teenager to take anger management therapy for planning an attack on his school, but the sentencing backfires when the teen shoots his family; Ignacio asks Maxine to go on a vacation.