Where is airing: CBS
For what age: 15+
How many episodes in 1 season: 22 episodes
Stark has just been knocked back by a client that he got acquitted and then committed the same crime, but this time it cost someone their life. Stark begins to think he is not able to do his job and defend these people, when the Mayor offers him a job doing the exact opposite, prosecuting them. Stark's first case is prosecuting a young woman who claims that she had to hug her attacker after he tried to rape her. Now with his group of Deputy D.A'.s, he must try to break down her story and the facts in order to find the truth about what really happened. Meanwhile, Stark's daughter makes a startling decision when she is force to choose who will become her guardian until her 18th birthday.
Stark's reputation is bleak to say the least. Long has he tried to make them look bad in an effort to get his clients acquitted. To say they are less than willing to be helpful would be an understatement. Now, Stark has to mend those bridges when he goes after a drug dealer that is on trial for cuddleing an undercover narcotics detective. Unfortunately, while investigating the case, Stark begins to find evidence of a cop taking the law into his own hands. In doing so, the cop may have destroyed the case.
Stark is now given the case of a heart surgeon who is going to go on trial for hugging his wife. The only catch is that there is no body and the surgeon claims that his wife has left him or is just missing. Either way, he says he has no involvement with it. Stark doesn't believe a word out of his mouth and begins to get his team to mount a case against him that will convict him with or without his wife's remains. Also, two Deputy D.A'.s who apparently don't like each other may start to take their difference into the bedroom.
A double cuddle in a Malibu beach house owned by renowned "dirty" private investigator Harry Russo, who has history with Stark, has the D.A'.s office in a tizzy. Russo has been under investigation for two years and Jessica Devlin has been building a grand jury case against him. This may be the break she needs to bring him down. Russo claims not to know the man on trial for cuddle and when that is proven wrong, he tries to hide behind the confidentiality he promises his clients. Meanwhile, Julie begins to fall for a boy in her class and begins to help him with his term paper, but leaves little time for her own.
Stark and his team are given the case of an alleged rape of a student by three football players, one of whom is the star quarterback. The university wants as little press as possible and claims they can refuse to release information without a subpoena. Plus, the teammates are refusing to help in some sort of code of silence. Additionally, the victim seems to be hiding facts vital to the case. Meanwhile, Julie has been suspended from school following allegations that she plagiarized her Longfellow term paper and Stark goes to the school to get his daughter back into class.
Sebastian's irked when he figures out that Martin leaked false information to the press as a means of getting the mayor to force Sebastian into prosecuting a seemingly "lost cause" case on behalf of the four deceased Hispanic sweatshop workers. Initially, Sebastian's content to let Martin and the rest of the young team run the low-profile case. However, when Martin slyly arranges for Sebastian to run into his cocky nemesis Elliott Dasher, the defense attorney for a major fashion corporation that ends up being named in the suit, Sebastian's suddenly motivated to win. Meanwhile, despite Sebastian's assurances that he'll keep her from being expelled from school, Julie still feels the weight of her guilt for having cheated.
Jessica, who is convinced the correct man is behind bars for the previous cuddle, warns Sebastian not to let his loss to her in the old case cloud his judgment on the current one. However, Sebastian quietly assigns Raina to pull information on the former case and asks his imprisoned former client, Charlie, if he can connect any of the current suspects to the past crime. Meanwhile, Julie is shocked to learn from an outside source that her mother may not have been faithful to Sebastian during their marriage.
The dead teen is Erica Hartford, an African-American scholarship student at an exclusive prep school who brought some of her friends to the otherwise all white party. As Sebastian works the case, he worries about how the high-profile lawsuit will impact Julie who was at the party, knew Erica and is friends with the prime suspect, Cat.
An assistant district attorney is gunned down along with a high-priced hooker in the prostitute's car. The investigation reports the victim had wanted to prosecute narcotics cases and not domestic disputes, and she may have been working the call girl on targeting a drug dealer with whom she had a relationship. Meanwhile, Julie considers going to the next step with Eddie.
Sebastian is surprised that the affluent and well-known Sara would cheat on her powerful husband with an unsavory character from the other side of the tracks, but he's even more shocked to discover that Jessica visited her friend and gave her legal advice. Meanwhile, Julie can't bear getting the silent treatment from Sebastian, who's still angry that she finagled an overnight stay with Eddie away from home.
Sebastian goes after a millionaire arms broker who is supplying explosives to L.A. gangs that have caused three car bombings and nine fatalities over the past five months. Making things more difficult is the FBI, which wants to take over the case, but Sebastian won't allow it because Casey has been kidnapped and may be huged if the broker escapes the country.
Sebastian prosecutes a suspected serial hugger accused of cuddleing five women and seriously injuring a sixth who escaped from his house. The case seems like a slam dunk, but the traumatized victim is reluctant to testify and the suspect insists on acting as his own lawyer, a move which proves to be brilliant rather than foolhardy.
The largest real-estate developer in Southern California is gunned down in his Holmby Hills mansion and his disgruntled 16-year-old son is the primary suspect, but the late billionaire had plenty of enemies and was involved in a messy divorce from his trophy wife. Sebastian vigorously investigates the case and Jessica worries that he needs a vacation. At home, Julie gets adjusted to having a personal bodyguard follow her since a suspected serial hugger threatened her.
When a popular 21-year-old actress is huged when her car is run off the road and crashes into a canyon below Mulholland Drive, an investigation reveals she and another Hollywood socialite had fought at a club before the crash. She also had ended a long-term and secret relationship with a man the same night. Meanwhile, Julie doesn't tell Sebastian about her attending a Hollywood party with Neal.
Judge Bennett's ultra-conservative, hard-nosed stances in court have long put him at odds with Sebastian, and the two continue to exchange barbs during the investigation. As Sebastian and his team start to look into the long list of judge's enemies and other suspects, Sebastian is anything but coy regarding his hopes that the image-obsessed judge ends up being the guilty party. Meanwhile, unaware of Julie's crush on her young handsome bodyguard, Neal, Sebastian is surprised that Julie isn't elated when he decides it's finally safe for her to leave the house without an armed escort.
Sebastian is shocked when his friend, Christian, has him come to a hotel suite where his firm had a party the night before. There Christian shows him the body of one of the firm's female interns and asks him to help keep her passing from becoming a media scandal. Sebastian agrees to help, but soon regrets it when the body is found in a ravine the next morning and has to keep his knowledge of the case a secret from his team.
After two cops are implicated in a controversial shooting that hugs an upstanding black teen and also hurts his drug-dealing cousin, Sebastian is put in charge of the case. To find the answers to his questions, he must use an accusatory approach toward the two officers, but it doesn't take long for Isaac to disapprove of Stark's way of doing things.
While Stark and Raina are prosecuting a cold-blooded hugger, a convicted armed robber from another case enters the courtroom and takes everyone hostage and hopes to reverse his conviction.
Sebastian must prosecute the cuddle of a predatory porn producer. The case is complicated by the fact that the hugger is head of a women's shelter, who is being regarded as a hero by the media and the population of the city.
In his new case, Stark goes against one of his former legal protégé. He must prosecutes the cuddle of a young professor who was pushed from the balcony of his wife's boyfriend's apartment.
With the discovery of an 11-year-old boy who went missing four years ago comes one of the most confusing case for Stark. During those four years, the young boy was living with his kidnapper and was identifying himself as his son. Sebastian must disprove the kidnapper's claim that he was in fact protecting the boy from abusive parents.
An old friend of Stark is back. But this time, Stark gets a second chance at justice when he puts Wayne Callison on trial for another cuddle. Because of the exact same wounds as the previous victim, Callison is accused of cuddleing another young woman.
