- Assistant district attorney Charles Terranova is tasked with the prosecution of Mike Flinn, a small-time bookmaker. Terranova seeks to have the case dismissed as it's Flinn's first offense. Concurrently, shady hood Patrick Birch convinces Flinn's daughter that Terranova will drop the charges against her father for a $2000 payoff. When the fee is paid and Flinn released, bribery charges are leveled against an astonished Terranova, who engages the Prestons to clear his name and save his legal career.—Skip Eastport
- Charles Terranova is a young assistant district attorney. He prosecuted an elderly man for bookmaking and the man was found guilty. The bookmaker's daughter contacts Patrick Birch for help. Birch is a political fixer - for a fee he uses his political contacts to get people what they want. Birch tells the bookmaker's daughter that for $2,000 Terranova will tell the Judge to dismiss the case prior to sentencing. The bookmaker's daughter waits outside a restaurant where Terranova is having lunch while Birch goes in to make the payoff. When Birch asks Terranova to dismiss the case, Terranova says that's what he already intends to do. No payoff being required, Birch keeps the money but does not tell the bookmaker's daughter. After the case against her father is dismissed, the bookmaker's daughter turns Terranova in for taking a bribe. At the trial, Birch can't explain why he didn't take his usual fee in this case. The bookmaker's daughter has to be removed from the courtroom after her testimony because she starts screaming that everybody always wants to take advantage of her and her father. The Judge in the bookmaker's case is called to the stand and reveals himself to be a hanging judge who only dismissed the case because Terranova agreed to take responsibility for it. In addition, the Judge was approached by a witness who could provide testimony that could help the bookmaker but told nobody about it. Terranova is found not guilty.
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