The overzealous and self righteous lawyer Wambaugh's latest client teenage boy Timmy Hendricks is forced to stand trial in the courtroom, after he shot Matthew Brock, which soon soups up a debate that Timmy's violent act was due to exposure of violent on television and in movies and Mayor Harris decides to act against violence in society by having all citizens fingerprinted and searched for weapons, an act that angers Sheriff Brock, whom decides to oppose The Mayor's decision to place Rome under martial law, which could cost the good local lawman his badge.