When police officer Dicky Cobb reveals he can read sign language, he's transferred from the street to the office of d...

Tess and Dicky handle the case of a mentally ill man who attacked a neighbor. Kay gives Dicky an ultimatum while Tess...

Dicky and Tess search for new evidence to nail a murderer released on a technicality, but their sole lead is a witnes...

Dicky's stuck with an inadmissible confession when a woman confesses to murdering her father, a prominent citizen, an...

Grieving over the suicide of a friend, Tess investigates the case that drove him to despair. Dicky reconciles with Kay.

Tess is tough on a deaf man accused of attempted murder, and Dicky becomes involved with attorney Lila Simon.

Bruce's move on Kay shakes things up with Tess; and a date-rape incident promises many aftershocks.

Kay tries to cope with the rape, harassment by the police and the impending trial all at once; Bruce drops a bomb on ...

Kay is as much on trial as the defendant, but with the support of Tess and Dicky she braces herself as the proceeding...

A murder case is dumped on Tess only days before trial, and she's pitted against her mentor; Dicky meets Lila's paren...

A fatal hit-and-run case involving a politician puts Gold on the spot, and causes a rift between Sean and Tess; Dicky...

An activist professor is charged with the murder of a college journalist who crucified him in print; Dicky feels blue...

Gold's uncle, who's opposed to capital punishment, defends a psycho-killer against Tess; Tess's parents visit just as...

Dicky is cast adrift when he's accused of brutality while breaking up a fight; and his troubles have a ripple effect ...

Dicky awaits the outcome of the brutality investigation; Tess laments that things have hit the skids with Sean; Kay h...

Tess's prosecution of the young neo-Nazi is roughed up by Judge Booth. Meanwhile, Dicky dogs the defendant's friend t...

Tess starts the wheels turning in the neo-Nazi case, but Judge Booth's obsessive attraction to her throws a wrench in...

Judge Booth makes things difficult for Tess as she prosecutes the neo-Nazi case, while Dicky dogs the defendant's fri...

A shopkeeper's trap for burglars does in a druggie, and the legal fallout has political and personal consequences for...

Maggie provides a spirited defense of a battered woman accused of murder in a case that Tess prosecutes with ambivale...

A public defender provides a weak defense for a Mexican immigrant couple accused of endangering their daughter; Sean ...