S1 E1: Starting Over
Rosie O'Neill used to be a rich Beverly Hills lawyer, but following a messy divorce, has decided to dedicate her life to becoming a public defender.
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The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
- 78% Tomatometer
A successful private attorney takes a job as an L.A. County public defender after her divorce.
Cast: Sharon Gless, Dorian Harewood, Ron Rifkin
Director: Joel Rosenzweig, Sharron Miller, Victoria Hochberg
S1 E2: Good Luck, Rose
Rosie struggles with her toughest case yet. She is defending a known rapist, who delights in confessing to his various crimes, including this one. Now she must come to terms on if helping him is morally right or not.
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S1 E3: So Long, Patrick
Rosie has a streak of bad luck after a client's mother places a curse on her. Meanwhile, she fights a difficult case when a young father-to-be is charged with vehicular manslaughter after hitting a man who he claims was laying in the street.
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S1 E4: Late-Night Callers
Rosie struggles with defending a client that the prosecutor is trying to railroadbased on the color of his skin. Meanwhile, she also has a difficult time with her feelings towards her new relationship, as her first wedding anniversary since the divorce is upon her.
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S1 E5: Shalom
Rosie struggles to defend a young man accused of defacing a Jewish cemetery and attacking an elderly night watchman. She learns of Ben's struggles with anti-Semitism and opines on the plight of the Jewish people.
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S1 E6: An Act of Love
Rosie begins to exam her own prejudices as she defends a client who mercy killed his AIDS-infected lover. Her client likewise suffers from AIDS and blames himself for giving it to his lover, doing little to help his case by believing he deserves this.
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S1 E7: When I'm 44
Rosie struggles with her upcoming birthday and a case that seems like a massive miscarriage of justice. Her newest client is facing damning charges of molesting a child, with the kid even confirming him as her attacker.
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S1 E8: Rosie Gets the Blues
Rosie finds herself defending a charming and legendary Blues legend, Fish Fry Baby (Bill Cobbs). Fish Fry is on trial for kidnapping a musician who stole his song and made millions with it.
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S1 E9: The Gang's All Here
Rosie may be in over her head when she defends a former gang member accused of starting a brawl. She finds racism plays a large part in the case against him, and that the system is out to get him regardless of his innocence.
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S1 E10: Mr. Right
Rosie becomes emotionally involved in her latest case, where a battered prostitute killed her pimp in self-defense. The prosecutors see it as premeditated, but Rosie sees a terrified woman pushed to her breaking point and was fearful for her life.
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S1 E11: The Man From E.L.F.
It's Christmastime and Rosie has an unusual, but holiday-appropriate client. Sven Ingerson (Paul Williams) is on trial for having stolen possessionstoys, specifically. He claims they're not stolen at all, and as an elf, he needs to be out of jail by Christmas Eve.
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S1 E12: Mother Love
Rosie struggles to defend her client, who is on trial for accidentally killing her drug-addicted daughter. Because she was a former drug addict herself, the mother appears less than trustworthy.
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S1 E13: State of Mind
Rosie gets an up-close view of the sorry state of the nation's mental health facilities with her newest client. She is a mentally-disturbed woman who is on trial for assaulting her case worker, which even the case worker claims was an accident.
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S1 E14: Time Will Tell
At a dinner honoring her late father, Rosie finds out that he was not the perfect man she had always thought he was. Now Rosie and Doreen must reassess their perfect childhoods to see if there was something they missed.
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S1 E15: Reunion
Rosie's high school reunion is upon her and she reluctantly attends it at the encouragement of her therapist. There, she encounters old friends including Tobey (Carol King) and Vicki (Tyne Daly), although Vicki and Rosie's relationship has cooled considerably since then.
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S1 E16: A Conflict of Interest
Rosie's latest client is Hank's brother, and now she must battle professional and personal issues with this case. Hank struggles with his brother's failures and the two butt heads over perceived differences in their childhoods that led to two very different lives.
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S1 E17: Environmental Robin Hood
An ecoterrorist holds Rosie's conscience hostage, going against her advice and pressuring her to argue the issue. Rosie feels that it could be toxic to her mistaken-identity defense, and urges her client to take the district attorney's offer, which he refuses to accept.
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S1 E18: Special Circumstances
Rosie and Hank team up on a difficult case that has their client potentially going to the gas chamber if they lose. The pressures of the case mount on the pair's personal lives in very different ways.
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