Andy Carpenter is $22 million richer but still the same guy - a wiseacre lawyer whose courtroom antics exasperate judges. The money came from his late father's strange legacy tied into an apparently open-and-shut case. Only it wasn't so open and shut and Andy proved the defendant innocent. Now, Andy is planning some time off when a man walks into Andy's office and virtually confesses to the decapitation and cremation of a dirty cop. So when Andy hears that another man, Oscar Garcia, is being charged with this very same murder, he goes out of his way to replace Garcia's public defender. Then, this simple case becomes the case of his life when private investigator and love of Andy's life Laurie Collins becomes the accused. The prosecution claims that she framed Garcia because of a personal vendetta against him and the dirty cop. Andy knows Laurie is incapable of such an act and when the man who originally confessed to the murder turns up dead, Andy knows Laurie's innocent and that this is much bigger. Who framed Oscar Garcia and Laurie? Who killed the now dead murderer? Now, in the case of his life, Andy must prove Laurie innocent.