Fri, Jan 18, 1963
A fellow attorney, formerly a prosecutor, calls requesting Sam's assistance, but he is seriously injured in a car accident before Sam can find out what he wanted. When they learn the man was working on trying for a last-minute stay of execution for one of his clients, Sam and Hank are determined to learn what his grounds were for an appeal, and they try to work with the attorney's loyal but distraught assistant to get to the answer. But she seems to be holding something back.
Fri, Mar 8, 1963
Sam defends an old client whom he had helped to find a job. The man has participated in a robbery in which a man was killed, but he refuses to say whether he or his accomplice actually pulled the trigger, as he believes the accomplice is his friend whom he does not want to betray. But the accomplice's lawyer is determined to spare his client the death penalty at any cost.
Fri, Mar 15, 1963
Sam defends a high school teacher who is charged with contributing to the delinquency of his students by reading to them from books which a local ordinance has banned. Both he and one of his students admit to deliberately flaunting the law to draw attention to its unconstitutionality.