Hawkins

- Season 1

(1973)

Hawkins defends an heiress charged with a triple murder.

Hawkins comes to Hollywood to defend a star's husband in a murder case. The man claims that he killed a playboy when he caught him trying to rape his daughter. But Hawkins doubts that he is telling him the full truth.

Hawkins defends a woman who is accused of murdering her wealthy elderly husband, who was bedridden with an incurable disease. She admits to not giving him the medicine he needed, but refuses to discuss her motives. While many believe it was a mercy killing, an ambitious assistant district attorney is trying to prove she did it because of the two million dollars she would inherit.

Hawkins defends a man who is charged with killing one of the two psychology professors whom he blames for the suicide of his son. Making it worse is that he was recorded on a television news tape vowing to make both men pay "a life for a life".

Hawkins comes to his own hometown to defend his own cousin's accused killer (and R.J.'s opponent in the upcoming sheriff's race). Fueling the case against the man is that he has been openly in love with the victim's wife, and that there has been talk of a long-standing feud between his family and the Hawkins clan.

Hawkins defends a star football player who is accused of killing his team's owner, a man who was apparently hated by plenty of other people as well, including his wife.

Hawkins defends the son of an old flame, who has been charged with murdering a drug-addicted young woman whom he had put into a room at the hotel his mother runs

Hawkins defends a U.S. Senator's aide who's been charged with the murder of a muckraking reporter who was going to air a story that might have caused embarrassment to his boss.