protagonist, Harrison Ford, is a prosecutor instead of a defense attorney. However, he is the defendent in the trial, charged with the murder of his mistress on the eve of an election for District Attorney. In the course of the film, it turns out that his boss (the District Attorney), the successful challenger for the DA's job, and the prosecutor on his case are all part of a complex political conspiracy. The judge eventually dismisses the case in order to prevent his own involvement in corruption from being revealed, and it is revealed at the end that the actual murderer was Ford's jealous wife.
As these brief plot outlines make clear, all of these films with the exception of "From the Hip" portray lawyers and judges as corrupt. M
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