Special Circumstances

Read by David Dukes
3 Cassettes, 5 hours 15 minutes

Meet Mike Daley. Yesterday he was skidding off the partner track at one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms. Today, he's renting a makeshift office on the wrong side of town. Where does an ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-husband like Daley go to build a practice? Not far, he discovers.

In a stunning turn of events, Daley's best friend and ex-colleague is charged with the double murder of two lawyers at the old firm, and asks Daley to defend him. Cobbling together a defense team composed of himself, his ex-wife, and a onetime courtroom fixture named Mort Goldberg who's been wished on him against his better judgement, Daley finds he's got more to defend than his friend's innocence. The newly elected, media-hungry District Attorney, also a former colleague, will prosecute the case himself. As court is called into session, it becomes clear that in this trial ambition, honor, friendship, greed and longstanding grudges will play as important a role as truth and justice.