When a college boy meats death while resisting arrest, hard-nosed police veteran Tony Delgano is threatened with indictment for manslaughter. Sam Benedict and associate Hank Tabor take the case.

Sarah Friedman is expecting her first baby, and she's also expecting a visit from her very religious mother. Sarah was married in a civil ceremony, but she begs Sam to help persuade her husband to have a second wedding performed by a rabbi - before Momma arrives.