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Episode 1
To Prosecute All Crimes
1965-01-31
ORYVE presentation
For the People
6.51965Ended1 season
Drama
For the People is an American Legal drama that aired from January 31 until May 9, 1965.
ORYVE presentation
For the People is an American Legal drama that aired from January 31 until May 9, 1965.
Assistant New York District Attorney Cliff Sellers takes his cases to the street to find out the truth. Koster is on the trail of mobster Johnny Pack, but Pack, who claims he's gone straight, is a hard man to indict.
Episode 2
A bum is charged with burglary and assault and battery on a police officer and Koster is sure his case is airtight. The vagrant confesses to the assault but swears he had nothing to do with the theft.
Episode 3
The public is demanding the death penalty for a Puerto Rican boy charged with the murder of an old woman.
Episode 4
Episode 5
A bookstore owner files suit against a police officer for defamation and false arrest after he displays a dirty book in his store.
Episode 6
ADA David Koster is puzzled why Louis Cahane, charged with first degree murder, is very confident he'll easily get off.
Episode 7
An emotionally disturbed teen-ager is on the run from police who suspect the boy is a serial killer of six young women.
Episode 8
Ernie Garatella is an actor by trade and apparently played his part just a little too well. He gets arrested for the impersonation of a police officer.
Episode 9
Unfortunately, the evidence does not seem to support a prison guard's claim that he had to kill in self defense.
Episode 10
If evidence of a government official's involvement in a past political scandal is made public, the nomination for state assemblyman will quickly go away.
Episode 11
Bobby Haviland is in great danger, not just from the kidnappers who have seized him, but from the diabetic shock he may go into from the lack of insulin.
Episode 12
The director of a large charity gets a finger pointed at him for embezzlement of donations after a low level hood gets arrested and wants to make a deal.
Episode 13
Koster has a witness who can identify the killer of a cop, only the witness is an ex-con and will be ripped apart on the stand because of his background.
