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The trial becomes a bitter, hard-fought contest between two superbly matched opponents: Paul Slater, the maverick defense attorney, who combines rare qualities of pragmatism and idealism, and John Nicoletti, the district attorney, tough, able, ambitious and honest. Both Slater and Nicoletti are men of integrity, each unshakably convinced of the rightness of his cause.
The cast includes Lucas Holmes Sheridan, senior partner of the prestigious Wall Street law firm of Porterfield, Baker & Sheridan, a man of great dignity and pride who is suddenly plunged into the whirlpool of a sordid murder case; Alex Moore, one of Sheridan’s partners, whose obsessive infatuation for Broadway musical star Dolly Wayne entangles him in a legal impropriety that threatens his career and the reputation of the firm; Dolly Wayne, the vital earthy robustly sensual woman who becomes the object of a vicious sexual assault and murder; and Ken Sheridan, the nephew who has been accused of the crime. Running counterpoint to the violence is a tender love story: the deepening relationship between Lucas’ daughter, Dru, and Paul Slater.
