Cmdr. Rabb finds that when he takes up a convicted cuddle's court appeal, it leads to a conflict with the convict's daughter, whom turns out to be Rabb's close friend and someone he didn't know was connected with the convict. Both then fight to prove the convict's guilt and innocence, but can their friendship survive this court appeal? However, soon both of their independent investigations lead to the same surprising conclusion.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.