***SPOILERS*** Overplotted as well as far fetched murder thriller that has pretty insurance adjuster Cassie Stewart on trail for her life in the murder of her best friend Diane Summers and lover Bobby Rose.
As things turned out for Cassie she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when she showed up in her apartment, that she shared with Diane, to not only find Diane and Bobby shot to death but end up with a brain concussion by having her skull slammed into the doorpost by their murderer! With prosecuting attorney Rolly Wycker seeing his chance to get himself elected as the city's next District Attorney he's determined to have Cassie not only convicted for murderer but have her sent to death row and get executed. This in order, as Wycker once said publicity, to make death row, by having a white woman on it, look like a cross section of America.
Without even asking high priced defense attorney L.G Mennick takes Cassie's case Pro Bono in seeing the free publicity in it. Mennick together with his assistant Jerry Pratt makes a mockery of Wykers attack, in his cross-examination, strategy in showing that he in fact, despite his showboating in the press, has absolutely no case against his client Cassie Stewart. It's just when it seems that a verdict of innocent for Cassie is a slam dunk a number of things unexpectedly pops up at the trial that boomerangs against her! One being that she in fact was having a romantic relationship with the murdered Bobby Rose that she and Mennick denied. And even worse Cassie was also in possession of a diamond necklace that Bobby gave as a present to Diane with her initials carved in it!
***SPOILER ALERT*** As Cassie starts to realize that she's somehow being set up to take the rap in the Daine Summers/Bobby Rose double murder she flies the coop and becomes a fugitive from justice. Using her analytical ability as an insurance adjuster, or odds maker, Cassie slowly uncovers the truth behind Diane and Bobby's murder. A truth so shocking and unbelievable in that she was unknowingly targeted to take the blame or it right from the very start! By someone who had not only murdered the pair but who later had carelessly, like the WWII saying loose lips sinks ships, implicating himself in their murders! And with Cassie now knowing who the murderer is she's in far more danger in him, or is henchmen, murdering her then in the law catching up with her!
As things turned out for Cassie she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when she showed up in her apartment, that she shared with Diane, to not only find Diane and Bobby shot to death but end up with a brain concussion by having her skull slammed into the doorpost by their murderer! With prosecuting attorney Rolly Wycker seeing his chance to get himself elected as the city's next District Attorney he's determined to have Cassie not only convicted for murderer but have her sent to death row and get executed. This in order, as Wycker once said publicity, to make death row, by having a white woman on it, look like a cross section of America.
Without even asking high priced defense attorney L.G Mennick takes Cassie's case Pro Bono in seeing the free publicity in it. Mennick together with his assistant Jerry Pratt makes a mockery of Wykers attack, in his cross-examination, strategy in showing that he in fact, despite his showboating in the press, has absolutely no case against his client Cassie Stewart. It's just when it seems that a verdict of innocent for Cassie is a slam dunk a number of things unexpectedly pops up at the trial that boomerangs against her! One being that she in fact was having a romantic relationship with the murdered Bobby Rose that she and Mennick denied. And even worse Cassie was also in possession of a diamond necklace that Bobby gave as a present to Diane with her initials carved in it!
***SPOILER ALERT*** As Cassie starts to realize that she's somehow being set up to take the rap in the Daine Summers/Bobby Rose double murder she flies the coop and becomes a fugitive from justice. Using her analytical ability as an insurance adjuster, or odds maker, Cassie slowly uncovers the truth behind Diane and Bobby's murder. A truth so shocking and unbelievable in that she was unknowingly targeted to take the blame or it right from the very start! By someone who had not only murdered the pair but who later had carelessly, like the WWII saying loose lips sinks ships, implicating himself in their murders! And with Cassie now knowing who the murderer is she's in far more danger in him, or is henchmen, murdering her then in the law catching up with her!