Raising the Bar Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Raising the Bar: Season 2 (2009)

• Season 2 Episode 12: Beating a Dead Horse

  Jerry takes over Bobbi's case involving a pregnant woman addicted to heroin; Michelle is determined to put the woman away to stop her from shooting up with a baby in her womb; Roz defends a carriage driver.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Bobbi Ba-Bing

  Jerry defends an inmate charged with stabbing another inmate; Richard works with Ashley, a new public defender, on a case involving a homeless man arrested for panhandling.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Making Up Is Hard to Do

  Bobbi defends a woman accused of smuggling cocaine; Michelle must rely on the testimony of her cop boyfriend.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Trout Fishing

  Jerry tries to get a continuance in order to give a woman the chance to help her son complete his college applications before she goes to prison.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Trust Me

  Bobbi becomes upset with Jerry when he meddles in her case and she doesn't feel she can trust him anymore; Richard decides to donate the first installment of his trust fund to the Public Defenders office.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Fine and Dandy

  One of Jerry's clients is re-arrested shortly after being acquitted; Richard picks a fight with Judge Kessler; Bobbi tries to adjust to her new living situation.

• Season 2 Episode 6: I'll Be Down to Get You a Taxi, Honey

  Jerry defends a man charged with running over his crooked lawyer with a car; Richard rushes through a case without getting the full story; Bobbi's final divorce papers are ready to be signed.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Is There a Doctor in the House

  Jerry defends a woman picked up for drug possession; Michelle's new boyfriend gives Jerry the runaround; Bobbi's client is certain 'his side' of the story will clear him of larceny charges; Charlie has dinner with Judge Farnsworth.

• Season 2 Episode 4: No Child's Left Behind

  Jerry defends a father against Balco's aggressive prosecution; Bobbi considers finding another job with better pay.

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Curious Case of Kellerman's Button

  Jerry gets into a conflict with Judge Farnsworth; Jerry schemes to make Farnsworth a victim of his own rules.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Rules of Engagement

  Jerry and Michelle go before a new judge; Michelle becomes smitten with a cop who may be perjuring himself.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Hair Apparent

  Jerry defends a barber whose nephew was caught selling crack out of his shop.

Raising the Bar: Season 1 (2008)

• Season 1 Episode 10: Shop Til You Drop

  An appeals court overturns a conviction based on Judge Kessler's decision to disallow testimony from a late witness; Jerry finds out something about Bobbi's husband; Richard defends an elderly woman accused of kiting checks.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Roman Holiday

  Jerry defends and HIV-positive man charged with attempted murder for spitting in a police officer's face; Michelle sits second chair to the assistant DA from the Major Crimes Unit; Bobbie and Richard defend a 14-year-old in a homicide case.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Out on the Roof

  Charlie arranges for Jerry to handle a case involving someone Charlie knows; Marcus thinks something is up when a young man takes the fall for an armed robbery; Michelle calls in a favor; Richard gets a visitor with a proposition for him.

• Season 1 Episode 7: A Leg to Stand On

  Jerry agrees to have his client's case moved to a bench trial; Bobbi defends a veteran who uses heroin to control the pain of a lost leg; Judge Kessler is asked to help deal with another judge; Richard gets some extra attention from his client.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Hang Time

  Jerry's newest client is accused of stealing money from a hit-and-run driver; Bobbi handles a domestic-violence case where the wife refuses to press charges against her husband.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Bagels and Locks

  Jerry takes on an emotional case; Balco decides to take over the case as the primary prosecutor; Bobbi defends a family man charged with possession of heroin; Jerry meets Bobbi's husband, Gavin.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Richie Richer

  Richard's wealthy father offers Roz a job at his high-profile firm; Jerry defends a destitute mother whose arrest may be an attempt to pressure her into testifying in a murder case; Judge Kessler positions herself as a political candidate.

• Season 1 Episode 3: I Will, I'm Will

  Judge Kessler orders Jerry to find an in-patient program for his mentally ill client; Richard defends a woman who got into an altercation at the welfare office.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Guatemala Gulfstream

  The only eyewitness that can prove Jerry's client's innocence is stuck in Guatemala; Michelle gets a chance to try her first murder case; Richard defends a man accused of assault; a former lover of Charlie's turns up in Judge Kessler's courtroom.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  Public defender Jerry Kellerman defends a man he is certain is innocent; a lawyer in the DA's office tries to right a wrong in a rape trial.