- Judge Carter Addison murders his cheating mistress and frames her lover. Then the judge presides over the man's trial with Ben Matlock as the defense counsel.
- Ben, who charges his clients six figures, is told by Charlene that she wants to do some pro bono work. He says OK. She already has a case. A moneyless young man is charged with killing his girlfriend. They were in her apartment and he went into the bathroom to shower. By the time he came out she had been stabbed to death by the older man who is keeping her -- infuriated by her infidelity in the apartment whose rent he is paying and who just happens to be the judge who will preside at the trial of the same young man he is trying to frame. The young man picks up the knife just when hotel security (alerted by the murderer on a house phone anonymously) break in. After the initial court hearing, in his chambers, the judge (an acquaintance of Ben who knows how good a lawyer-investigator Ben Matlock is) asks if the cagey lawyer would be willing to hand the case off to a new lawyer, who is just starting out, which would serve as good experience for an up-and-coming young attorney, especially as it is a pro bono case. The judge has good cause for concern. But Ben declines and later goes to the the girl's expensive apartment and learns she is from a working-class background. So, how could she have afforded the apartment, among other luxuries? They also learn that she may have been seeing another man, older and who smoked a pipe and drank a certain brand of cognac. Ben goes back to the judge-murderer, whom he knows smokes a pipe. Ben meets the judge at the bar and orders the same cognac, which the judge particularly enjoys. Ben starts wondering if the judge knows something about the murder or could even be the guilty party?—rcs0411@yahoo.com/Rms125a@hotmail.com
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