Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case that brings Wyler into the series is, once again, a crime rooted salaciously in sex. Up for re-election, the Governor of California is murdered in bed with his mistress, and the suspect is a demure schoolteacher, Sharon Rooney (Missy Crider) who appears too Kate Moss-frail to have actually pulled any triggers. Frustrated when he's passed over for a promotion in the prosecutors' office, Wyler manages to grab the job of defending her. In turn, Hoffman's former associates recruit the young gun with the star-making case to head their firm while their old boss...
...final episode. The shady character in the current case is played, against type, by The Waltons dad Ralph Waite. With none of the digressions and subplots that burdened Murder One early on last year, the show moves along at a perfectly clipped pace. In the second episode this week, Rooney is already in court and standing trial...
...Kathleen Stanford and Lt. John Rooney have been removed from their high-profile positions as departmental supervisors of the Criminal Investigations Department...
Riley says he made the move after Stanford and Rooney requested to be reassigned...
...Richard W. Mederos, who formerly worked under Stanford and Rooney, was recently promoted to Sergeant and appointed the new supervisor...