Owen's niece is in need of legal help--her own husband is suing her for adultery, claiming that since she's pregnant by artificial insemination, she's in fact cheated on him.
An airline pilot is found dead in a park and the police arrest his friend who was seen running away at the time of his demise. Owen agrees to defend the young woman.
A basketball star is accused of murdering a professor that he threatened after discovering a secret relationship his girlfriend was having with the teacher.
Owen and Jess take up the case of a Vietnam veteran accused of rape. The soldier had been discharged from the military for psychiatric disorders which the attorneys intend to use as a defense.
A young man is accused of killing his girlfriend. Owen discovers that the prosecution has what appears to be a damning piece of evidence, a note found in his school locker, saying that she didn't want to see him anymore, but he suspects that it's a fake and attacks it in court.
A 7-year-old boy living on a farm with his dead mother's sister is the prize in a bitter custody battle when his father, an ex-con, returns and wants him back.
A newly engaged couple in their 40's find their happiness short lived. Her teenage daughter is violated and killed with the fiance the chief suspect. Owen takes seemingly hopeless case when a Shakespearean quote changes the investigation.
A folk-rock singer, who comes from a family of prominent lawyers, is accused of pulling the plug on his terminally ill mother. The singer's father, a dear friend of Owen's, hires him to defend his son.
Attorney Owen Marshall agrees to defend a priest who's arrested for killing a girl he once dated. Marshall believes most of the evidence is circumstantial except for an eyewitness who declares she saw the accused at the scene of the crime.
Owen Marshall works to free a young girl from a mental institution in a small rural town. Her parents committed her after disapproving of their daughter's morals.
Pat Boone plays a junior high school principal fighting for custody of his son. Although the boy wants to live with his father the courts may disagree after hearing the wife's vengeful accusations.
When Howell is found murdered evidence starts to point to his wife Kit. She hires Owen to defend her and he finds his job more difficult as Kit had recently discovered her husband was having an affair with a nightclub singer.