Unlike a few other reviewers here, I thought this episode, much like the one that appeared before it back in 1964 ('Bed of Roses'), was pretty much bulletproof. The conundrum of attorney Ned Murray (Martin Landau) having successfully defended a guilty man of murder was made known after the fact of the innocent verdict. It would be reasonable for him to express remorse and regret over the circumstance. When gangster Tony Hardeman (John Marley) offered a somewhat ambiguous resolution to Murray's plight, you could tell Murray didn't go for two wrongs making a right. It was interesting to see actor Marley on the opposite side of 'making an offer that couldn't be refused', but at least no horse heads made their way into the program. Where Murray couldn't find a way around a double jeopardy case, a conversation with Judge Arthur (Richard Hale) provided him with a clue about a criminal insanity defense that was made all the easier by Lew Rydell (Frank Gorshin) getting the upper hand on Hardeman in a twist ending via some sleight of hand by the scriptwriters. Ned Murray would get his retribution, if that's what you want to call it, by sending Rydell to an asylum with his very next court case.
Review of The Second Verdict
