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| Original Air Date—13 September 1990
Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an emergency room physician's mistake which results in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor may have also been drunk at the time. |
| Original Air Date—20 September 1990
A woman claims she shot two punks on a subway car in self-defense, but investigators and prosecutors are not sure that they believe her. |
| Original Air Date—4 October 1990
A gay man with AIDS is accused of murdering another gay man. However, he claims that the victim also had AIDS, and that it was a mercy killing. |
| Original Air Date—11 October 1990
A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family. |
| Original Air Date—23 October 1990
A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other. |
| Original Air Date—30 October 1990
The assault of a city councilman uncovers a scandal involving organized crime, elected city officials, and a deputy police commissioner. |
| Original Air Date—13 November 1990
A murder investigation leads detectives to a madam accused of running a prostitution ring disguised as a catering service. |
| Season 1, Episode 8: Poison IvyOriginal Air Date—20 November 1990
A police officer is accused of planting a gun on an unarmed African-American youth that he shot. The victim was beloved in his community, but the investigation reveals that he may have also been a drug dealer. |
| Original Air Date—27 November 1990
A child's collapse in school from mortal injuries leads to an investigation that uncovers a family steeped in horrific abuse. |
| Original Air Date—4 December 1990
The investigation into the death of a controversial artist reveals that he was involved in twisted sex games with two powerful figures. |
| Original Air Date—11 December 1990
A young black girl claims to have been raped by white police officers. Police and Prosecutors struggle to get the truth after an ambitious black congressman claims the investigation is a racially-motivated cover-up. |
| Original Air Date—8 January 1991
After an anti-abortion protester is killed in an abortion center bombing, detectives search for all of her potential co-conspirators. |
| Original Air Date—15 January 1991
A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty. |
| Original Air Date—5 February 1991
Stone temporarily dismisses rape charges against three defendants because the victim's testimony has too many holes. Greevey and Logan's subsequent reinvestigation uncovers a possible fourth assailant. |
| Original Air Date—12 February 1991
Stone makes a deal with a group of low-level mobsters when they offer to testify that a crime boss murdered a missing union leader. However, the prosecution's case unravels at trial, causing all parties involved to walk. |
| Original Air Date—19 February 1991
After crime boss Frank Masucci's murder case gets thrown out, Stone turns up the heat on the witnesses who played him in order to find charges against Masucci that will stick. |
| Season 1, Episode 17: MushroomsOriginal Air Date—26 February 1991
A twelve-year-boy is injured and his infant brother is killed by gunshots. The investigation reveals they were the accidental victims of a hit ordered by a drug dealer against a real estate broker. |
| Original Air Date—12 March 1991
Stone faces a Texas cowboy lawyer and a hostile community as he tries to prosecute a young man accused of murdering a drug dealer for raping the man's sister. |
| Original Air Date—19 March 1991
A businessman and his wife are killed. The couple's two sons emerge as the most likely suspects, but detectives later find business ties to the Russian mob. |
| Original Air Date—26 March 1991
Detectives and prosecutors face resistance from federal authorities as they pursue murder charges against an suspected IRA member serving time in federal prison, after he is suspected of killing another federal prisoner. |
| Original Air Date—2 April 1991
Grevey and Logan discover that an apparent mugging victim found unconscious on a park bench has had his kidney removed. The case leads to a powerful man whose daughter desperately needed a transplant and the doctor who may have helped him. |
| Original Air Date—9 June 1991
Captain Cragen ends up in the cross-hairs of an internal investigation into evidence tampering, and the DA's office is forced to put him in a precarious situation to implicate the conspirators. |
| Season 2, Episode 1: ConfessionOriginal Air Date—17 September 1991
Sgt. Greevey is murdered and an angry Det. Logan pressures a confession out of the killer. Prosecutors struggle to allow the confession to be used in court. |
| Original Air Date—24 September 1991
A woman claims she suffered from extreme emotional disturbance when she shot her ex-husband and his young lover in bed. Prosecutors believe her son can uncover the truth in the case. |
| Season 2, Episode 3: AriaOriginal Air Date—1 October 1991
An aspiring actress dies from a drug overdose. Investigation reveals that her domineering mother may have driven her to suicide by forcing her to act in a pornographic film. The DA's office pursues murder charges against her. |
| Season 2, Episode 4: AsylumOriginal Air Date—8 October 1991
After a homeless man is convicted of murder, his lawyer files an Fourth Amendment appeal claiming an illegal, unwarranted search of his personal property. |
| Original Air Date—22 October 1991
A couple denies medical attention to their dying daughter because of their religious convictions. Detectives discover that the they may have had doubts about their actions, so the D.A. charges them with endangering and manslaughter. |
| Original Air Date—29 October 1991
A young pregnant woman is found beaten and has a miscarriage, Cerreta and Logan are soon led to the lawyer she was working for, who may or may not have been involved in the attack. |
| Original Air Date—5 November 1991
Skeletal remains of a young boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment building, and finding the killer may ride on Dr. Olivet's ability to uncover a possible witness' repressed memories of the incident. |
| Original Air Date—12 November 1991
A co-ed claims that two fraternity brothers raped her at a Halloween party, but finding the truth proves to be difficult when other members of the fraternity stonewall investigators and the woman's sexual history is revealed. |
| Original Air Date—19 November 1991
A high school student who was having affair with one of his teachers is accused of killing the teacher's husband. Did the woman use him and set him up, or was the boy obsessed and did he act on his own? |
| Season 2, Episode 10: HeavenOriginal Air Date—26 November 1991
An arson at an Hispanic social club that killed 53 people is related to a powerful Cuban, an INS agent, and the sale of fake green cards. |
| Original Air Date—10 December 1991
The frozen body of a Broadway producer is found five years after his death. Stone suspects that a show investor and the producer's fiancée actress were involved, but time makes it more difficult to find a motive. |
| Original Air Date—7 January 1992
An obsessed fan is charged with the brutal beating of a soap opera actress. During the trial, he claims that a voice in his head told to do it. |
| Season 2, Episode 13: SeveranceOriginal Air Date—14 January 1992
Stone and Robinette go after a defense contractor, as well as his lawyer and the hit-man he allegedly hired, after two men are killed and a whistle-blower who planned to testify against him goes missing. |
| Original Air Date—4 February 1992
An man from an old-money New York family is accused of killing his wife over an affair. The man she was seeing is reluctant to testify, and the case rides on the positive identification of a family heirloom. |
| Season 2, Episode 15: TrustOriginal Air Date—11 February 1992
A teenager confesses to shooting a classmate, but claims it was an accident. Detectives also discover that he was responsible for a similar shooting two years earlier, but the records are sealed. |
| Season 2, Episode 16: VengeanceOriginal Air Date—18 February 1992
The parents of a woman murdered in Manhattan try to get the case moved to Connecticut so that they can pursue the death penalty against the defendant, a suspected serial killer. |
| Original Air Date—3 March 1992
A teenage drug addict claims that a nun molested her at a treatment house, but the investigation leads an accusation of rape involving the chief executive of the facility. |
| Original Air Date—31 March 1992
A baby is found frozen to death in a hospital emergency room. The case leads to accusations that the landlord of the building the baby and her mother lived in hired people to turn off the heat and harass tenants to get them to move out. |
| Original Air Date—7 April 1992
A corpse of a badly burned Jewish jeweler is found in an alley. Initial evidence suggests that it could be a hate crime performed by a group of black youths, but a business motive is later uncovered. |
| Original Air Date—14 April 1992
An award-winning Chinese American high school science student is killed. Evidence points to the jealous family of one of the student's high school competitors. |
| Season 2, Episode 21: SilenceOriginal Air Date—28 April 1992
A councilman is found dead on a street, and the investigation reveals that he was being blackmailed because he was gay. However, the councilman's very powerful father is reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want his son outed. |
| Original Air Date—12 May 1992
The murder of a "corporate raider" appears to be connected to a Brooklyn factory he took over and then shut down. But the DA's office uncovers a connection to a banking scandal that leads all the way to a former governor. |
| Season 3, Episode 1: Skin DeepOriginal Air Date—23 September 1992
Logan and Cerreta investigate the death of a fashion model photographer and discover that the photographer's real business was prostitution. One of his "clients" is implicated, but she may be covering for the real killer. |
| Season 3, Episode 2: ConspiracyOriginal Air Date—30 September 1992
A white Jew faces trial for the shooting death of a prominent African American leader, but was the assassination actually an inside job? |
| Original Air Date—7 October 1992
A college student from a poor Mexican family kills his rich co-ed fiancée after she breaks up with him. The defense hopes to exploit the jury's guilt for the client's plight to avoid a murder conviction. |
| Original Air Date—14 October 1992
A teenage boy dies because of a faulty pacemaker, and detectives soon discover that he is not the only person to die from pacemakers manufactured by the same company. |
| Original Air Date—21 October 1992
Two washed-up, handcuffed corpses are identified as Mexican immigrants, and the investigation reveals that they may have been working as slave labor in a sweatshop. |
| Season 3, Episode 6: HelplessOriginal Air Date—4 November 1992
Dr. Olivet accuses an esteemed gynecologist of rape. However, when she loses her case, the DA's office resorts to a new strategy to bring the doctor to justice. |
| Original Air Date—11 November 1992
A Greek immigrant jewelry store owner kills two robbers and claims self defense. However, it is soon questioned whether his actions went beyond self defense and crossed into revenge and murder. |
| Original Air Date—18 November 1992
A Colombian drug cartel assassin is accused in the murder of a Colombian couple in a restaurant. While trying to make the case against the accused, Ceretta is shot by a black-market gun dealer whom the prosecution needs as a witness. |
| Original Air Date—25 November 1992
A woman claims she killed a man outside a bar because he was going to rape her, but was it really a mob hit? Logan is partnered up with Lennie Briscoe, and Ceretta tells Logan that he isn't returning to the precinct after his shooting. |
| Original Air Date—9 December 1992
The death of a pregnant drug mule leads to the discovery of a Nigerian heroin smuggling ring that leads all the way to a diplomat who is also a Nigerian tribal chief. |
| Original Air Date—6 January 1993
A Broadway producer's daughter is abducted from a department store. Later, she and her mother are found in a women's shelter. The mother claims that the daughter was abused by her father, but the daughter's accounts are inconsistent. |
| Original Air Date—13 January 1993
An innocent man confesses to killing his girlfriend and takes a plea. A.D.A. Robinette suspects that his defense may have conspired with the victim's estate planner to sandbag him for financial reasons. |
| Original Air Date—3 February 1993
Prosecution of an elderly man accused of killing his wife, a Holocaust survivor, becomes complicated when it is learned that he may have been a Jew who worked with the Nazis in Poland during World War II. |
| Original Air Date—10 February 1993
The D.A. tries to hold a psychiatrist criminally responsible when a client she is accused of having sexual relations with kills his girlfriend. |
| Original Air Date—24 February 1993
A frustrated African American mother confesses to killing her junkie daughter who was bleeding the family's finances dry. The DA's office wants to consider leniency because of her race, but Robinette strongly rejects the notion. |
| Original Air Date—3 March 1993
With the help of a Brooklyn detective, Briscoe and Logan get a confession from a mentally retarded man in the murders of two nurses. Further investigation reveals that he may be innocent, but he steadfastly maintains that he is guilty. |
| Original Air Date—10 March 1993
A female Naval officer is killed during a drunken party. The Navy claims jurisdiction in the case, but detectives soon suspect that the guilty party is being protected and the wrong man is being railroaded. |
| Original Air Date—17 March 1993
A university scientist is murdered, allegedly over an affair her husband was having. However, Stone later suspects that the alleged "mistress" may actually be delusional, and that there was actually no affair. |
| Season 3, Episode 19: VirusOriginal Air Date—21 April 1993
A computer virus creates a malfunction at a Diabetes clinic which results in the deaths of two patients. Detectives tie the virus to a teenage hacker, whose father unsuccessfully accused the clinic of malpractice. |
| Season 3, Episode 20: SecuritateOriginal Air Date—5 May 1993
A teenage Romanian immigrant kills his father, a cruel former Romanian secret police officer, after his father kills his own brother. The boy's defense attorney offers a "cultural insanity" defense. |
| Season 3, Episode 21: ManhoodOriginal Air Date—12 May 1993
After a cop is killed while trying to make a drug arrest the investigation reveals that some of his fellow officers may have stood by and let him die for reasons of their own. |
| Original Air Date—19 May 1993
A young, independent deaf woman is murdered, but what is it her scorned lover or her obsessed mentor? Detectives Briscoe and Logan scour phone transcripts, while forensics narrows the search. It's up to prosecutors Stone and Robinette to persuade the truth out of the victim's mentor, the founder of a local institute for the deaf. |
| Season 4, Episode 1: SweepsOriginal Air Date—15 September 1993
Stone goes after a sensational tabloid talk show host after a child molester is murdered on live television by the father of his victim. |
| Season 4, Episode 2: VolunteersOriginal Air Date—29 September 1993
A drug addicted and violent homeless man, who had been terrorizing a neighborhood and whom the residents and police had been unable to do anything about, is severely beaten. |
| Season 4, Episode 3: DiscordOriginal Air Date—6 October 1993
A 19-year-old co-ed accuses a crude heavy metal artist of rape. However, Kincaid fails to reveal an important detail about the accused to Stone before the trial, which puts the case and their working relationship in jeopardy. |
| Season 4, Episode 4: ProfileOriginal Air Date—13 October 1993
The hunt for a racist serial killer is aided by personality profiling that the defense uses to their advantage in court. |
| Season 4, Episode 5: Black TieOriginal Air Date—20 October 1993
Briscoe receives an anonymous 911 call saying that a prominent millionaire has been murdered. However, the investigation is thwarted by the wife and family attorney, who claim he died from natural causes. |
| Original Air Date—27 October 1993
While investigating the death of a building superintendent, Briscoe and Logan discover that the victim's teenage son may have been abusing him. The son, however, claims that he was the abuse victim. |
| Season 4, Episode 7: ApocryphaOriginal Air Date—3 November 1993
A woman detonates a bomb in a parking garage, and prosecutors suspect she was acting under orders of a charismatic cult leader. |
| Original Air Date—9 November 1993
The discovery of skeletal remains on Roosevelt Island leads to a new trial for a former Wall Steet junk bond broker now serving time in the victim's murder. The defendant chooses to act as his own counsel. |
| Season 4, Episode 9: Born BadOriginal Air Date—16 November 1993
The lawyer of a 14-year-old boy claims he is not responsible for the beating death of his friend because he has an extra Y chromosome and is genetically predisposed to criminal behavior. |
| Original Air Date—1 December 1993
After a business owner is shot and killed, suspicion falls on his Russian mail order bride and the man she is having an affair with. |
| Original Air Date—5 January 1994
A young woman is accused of starving her grandmother to death because she wanted to receive her share of the inheritance faster. |
| Season 4, Episode 12: SnatchedOriginal Air Date—12 January 1994
Briscoe and Logan investigate when the son of a wealthy friend of Adam Schiff is kidnapped. |
| Season 4, Episode 13: BreederOriginal Air Date—19 January 1994
Stone and Kincade try to prosecute a woman who is accused of extortion and promising her biological child to multiple couples. |
| Season 4, Episode 14: CensureOriginal Air Date—2 February 1994
While Stone prosecutes a judge in an attempted larceny case, Kincaid faces censure charges for not disclosing that she had an affair with the accused. |
| Season 4, Episode 15: KidsOriginal Air Date—9 February 1994
The son of one of Briscoe's former colleagues is accused of shooting and killing an innocent 14-year-old. He claims that he was trying to shoot a gun dealer who threatened him, but the people's case against him is very shaky. |
| Season 4, Episode 16: Big BangOriginal Air Date—2 March 1994
A woman is killed after opening a mail bomb. The investigation leads to the discovery of a bitter research dispute between her ex-husband, a noted physicist, and a younger researcher that he double-crossed. |
| Season 4, Episode 17: MayhemOriginal Air Date—9 March 1994
Briscoe and Logan catch three unrelated homicide cases in one shift: an aspiring actor shot in his car, a Lorena Bobbitt copycat who killed her husband, and a grocery store owner killed in a robbery. |
| Season 4, Episode 18: WagerOriginal Air Date—30 March 1994
A chiropractor accused of being a bookmaker is charged with killing the father of a professional baseball player over his son's gambling debts. However, Stone and Kincade soon suspect during the trial that the son is hiding something. |
| Season 4, Episode 19: SanctuaryOriginal Air Date—13 April 1994
A Jewish driver kills a black youth in a hit-and-run accident in Harlem and is not prosecuted. The black community's reaction ends in the death of a white motorist, but should the killer be held responsible for his actions? |
| Season 4, Episode 20: NurtureOriginal Air Date—4 May 1994
Stone is reluctantly forced to pursue criminal charges against a woman who kidnapped a young girl and took her away from an abusive foster home, even though he thinks she should receive psychiatric care instead. |
| Season 4, Episode 21: DoublesOriginal Air Date—18 May 1994
Briscoe and Logan investigate a mysterious attack on a young tennis star, on the eve of a major tournament. While the detectives look for possible stalkers, they have to deal with rival players and the victim's manager father. |
| Original Air Date—25 May 1994
The CFO of a baby food company is murdered, and the investigation leads to the Russian mob. Stone gets tough with a threatened witness after she commits perjury during the trial, and the consequences of that decision lead him to resign. |
| Original Air Date—21 September 1994
Kincaid's new partner in the DA's office, Jack McCoy, pursues murder charges for a woman who provided questionable alternative treatments for women suffering from breast cancer. |
| Season 5, Episode 2: ComaOriginal Air Date—28 September 1994
Detectives and prosecutors believe that a smug comedy club owner shot his wife and put her in a coma, but they can't come up with enough hard evidence to get him convicted. |
| Original Air Date—5 October 1994
A singer claims Battered Woman Syndrome as an excuse for killing her former employer, whom she claims abused her during her employment. |
| Original Air Date—12 October 1994
During the investigation into a wealthy publisher's death, the victim's daughter claims to be having a relationship with her mother's new husband. |
| Original Air Date—19 October 1994
A conservative suburban wife and mother turns out to be a fugitive student radical who was involved in an armored car heist and murder of a police officer 23 years earlier. |
| Season 5, Episode 6: CompetenceOriginal Air Date—2 November 1994
Van Buren kills a retarded, unarmed teenager at an ATM. She claims it was a robbery attempt, and that there's a second, armed suspect on the loose. But not everyone believes her. |
| Season 5, Episode 7: PreciousOriginal Air Date—9 November 1994
A false kidnapping claim leads to the prosecution of a married couple after detectives discover that three of their infants have died under mysterious circumstances. |
| Season 5, Episode 8: VirtueOriginal Air Date—23 November 1994
McCoy charges a city councilman with "larceny by extortion," after a female colleague claims that she had to sleep with him or lose her chance at partnership at their law firm. |
| Season 5, Episode 9: ScoundrelsOriginal Air Date—30 November 1994
An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have lost their life savings in an S&L scandal. |
| Original Air Date—4 January 1995
Briscoe and Logan learn that the murder of an unassuming Parks Department accountant may have actually been a mob hit when they discover that he was a juror in the trial of a crime boss. |
| Season 5, Episode 11: GuardianOriginal Air Date—11 January 1995
A financial advisor is implicated in the drug overdose death of one of his client's children. |
| Season 5, Episode 12: ProgenyOriginal Air Date—25 January 1995
The murder of an abortion doctor leads to the prosecution of a radical pro-life leader, who hopes to use the trial to grandstand against abortion laws. |
| Season 5, Episode 13: RageOriginal Air Date—1 February 1995
A smug African American stock broker who resents other people of his own race is accused of murder. However, he hires a high-profile civil rights attorney, who presents a "black rage" defense. |
| Original Air Date—8 February 1995
The discovery of a fake pornographic "snuff tape" leads detectives to a high school gang and an alleged points-for-sex contest. |
| Season 5, Episode 15: SeedOriginal Air Date—15 February 1995
While investigating a fertility doctor for a separate case of fraud, McCoy and Kincaid discover evidence that he may be inseminating his patients with his own sperm. |
| Season 5, Episode 16: WannabeOriginal Air Date—15 March 1995
The murder of an admissions board member for a prestigious prep school is connected to the expulsion of a subway worker's son. But a false confession and a school cover-up make prosecuting the responsible parties difficult. |
| Season 5, Episode 17: Act of GodOriginal Air Date—22 March 1995
Did a struggling contractor intentionally blow up the building he was working on, or was he the intended target of the explosion? |
| Season 5, Episode 18: PrivilegedOriginal Air Date—5 April 1995
An alcoholic foster child is accused of murdering a married couple in their bed. Psychiatric evaluation suggests that the incident may be related to abuse from his foster mom. |
| Original Air Date—19 April 1995
Evidence indicates that the death, in police custody, of an autistic teenager was the result of longstanding abuse. Suspician falls on the treatment center where he lived. |
| Season 5, Episode 20: Bad FaithOriginal Air Date—26 April 1995
The investigation into a police officer's death uncovers 30-year-old accusations of molestation by a Catholic priest. Detective Logan takes a personal interest in the case because of his relationships with both parties. |
| Original Air Date—3 May 1995
When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon. |
| Season 5, Episode 22: SwitchOriginal Air Date—17 May 1995
A businessman is accused of killing the psychiatrist who diagnosed his daughter with multiple personality disorder. McCoy suspects that the psychiatrist may have uncovered a repressed memory involving her mother's possible murder. |
| Season 5, Episode 23: PrideOriginal Air Date—24 May 1995
A gay city councilman is murdered. The prime suspect is a conservative rival he may have double-crossed. The investigation also sets off a series of events that could cost Logan his detective position. |
| Original Air Date—20 September 1995
Briscoe and his new partner, Rey Curtis, track down the man accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl. But before the suspect is arraigned, the girl's mother shoots and kills him in the courtroom.
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| Season 6, Episode 2: RebelsOriginal Air Date—27 September 1995
A biker who posts to an Internet bulletin board refuses to reveal information that could help a murder investigation, arguing that he a journalist protecting his sources.
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| Season 6, Episode 3: SavagesOriginal Air Date—18 October 1995
The death penalty has just been passed in New York and prosecutors must decide whether or not it is appropriate after an unlikely suspect murders an undercover police officer.
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| Season 6, Episode 4: JeopardyOriginal Air Date—1 November 1995
A judge throws out all of the prosecution's key evidence and dismisses murder charges against a wealthy defendant. District Attorney Adam Schiff suspects that the judge, an old friend, may be on the take.
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| Original Air Date—8 November 1995
A man and a woman rob a nightclub and a deli, killing the owner. When they're caught, the woman claims she was forced to participate against her will.
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| Season 6, Episode 6: ParanoiaOriginal Air Date—15 November 1995
The DA's office tries to prosecute a co-ed for brutally murdering her roommate, but the only evidence is a vague confession. However, Dr. Olivet suggests that she may have suffered from paranoia due to her tragic family history.
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| Original Air Date—22 November 1995
After a prostitute is murdered, the detectives believe she was blackmailing a wealthy client. Kincaid prosecutes the case, but has second thoughts after the defendant's wife takes the stand.
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| Season 6, Episode 8: AngelOriginal Air Date—29 November 1995
A woman claims that a Puerto Rican man kidnapped her infant daughter while she was in a church confessional. However, she later confesses to killing her baby and cremating her body.
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| Original Air Date—3 January 1996
An anti-Semitic teen is accused of killing a Jewish teacher. His defense attorney argues that the accused is really the victim of a Jewish conspiracy.
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| Season 6, Episode 10: RemandOriginal Air Date—10 January 1996
A convicted rapist in a high-profile trial from 30 years earlier receives a new trial because of legal technicalities. In addition, prosecutors must try to convict this time without a confession.
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| Original Air Date—17 January 1996
An investigation into a horse swindling scheme escalates into a murder investigation when one of the accused's possible victims--his ex fiancée--disappears.
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| Season 6, Episode 12: TrophyOriginal Air Date—31 January 1996
A man serving time in a serial killer case claims malicious prosecution and false imprisonment after a man who killed two more boys confesses to the other murders. All of the evidence points to Jack McCoy and his former assistant.
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| Season 6, Episode 13: Charm CityOriginal Air Date—7 February 1996
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| Season 6, Episode 14: CustodyOriginal Air Date—21 February 1996
A crack-addicted, African American mother is accused of murder and kidnapping the baby Child Welfare took from her. Her defense attorney, former A.D.A. Paul Robinette, argues that the entire child welfare system is racist.
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| Season 6, Episode 15: EncoreOriginal Air Date—28 February 1996
A businessman most people suspect got away with conspiring to murder his first wife is now accused of conspiring to kill his second wife. Both cases share eerie similarities.
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| Season 6, Episode 16: SaviorOriginal Air Date—13 March 1996
A hard-luck executive is accused of murdering his wife and son, and injuring his daughter. Dr. Olivet tells prosecutors that he fits the profile of a "family annihilator," but backs down when he refuses to confess on the stand.
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| Season 6, Episode 17: DeceitOriginal Air Date—27 March 1996
A married lawyer is charged with murdering a colleague with whom he was having a gay affair. However, his wife vehemently comes to his defense and threatens revenge on the prosecutors if they pursue the case. |
| Season 6, Episode 18: AtonementOriginal Air Date—10 April 1996
A model is murdered and the evidence points to her driver. He claims he acted under extreme emotional disturbance because he was infatuated with her. However, McCoy later uncovers a connection between the driver and a drug dealer. |
| Season 6, Episode 19: SlaveOriginal Air Date—21 April 1996
A woman is killed after stray bullets travel through her apartment window. Briscoe and Curtis learn that an abused 13-year-old who was forced to work for a drug dealer by his drug-addicted mother was the shooter. |
| Original Air Date—1 May 1996
The death of a college student at her school library appears to be connected to her involvement in a co-ed prostitution ring. |
| Season 6, Episode 21: Pro SeOriginal Air Date—8 May 1996
A schizophrenic attorney who refuses to take medication defends himself against multiple charges of murder. |
| Season 6, Episode 22: HomesickOriginal Air Date—15 May 1996
A young British au pair is suspected of poisoning the baby in her care. Her defense tries to create reasonable doubt by emphasizing the neglect of the baby's working mother. |
| Season 6, Episode 23: AftershockOriginal Air Date—22 May 1996
After witnessing an inmate's execution, McCoy, Kincaid, Briscoe, and Curtis react in different and extreme ways. |
| Original Air Date—18 September 1996
Jack McCoy and his new assistant, Jamie Ross, get off to a rocky start together as they try to prosecute a carjacking/murder suspect after the judge excludes a cassette tape that could prove his guilt. |
| Season 7, Episode 2: I.D.Original Air Date—25 September 1996
A woman is charged with murdering her sister, but prosecutors learn that the defendant is actually the other sister--who assumed the real victim's identity. Meanwhile, the judge becomes hostile to the prosecution during the trial. |
| Season 7, Episode 3: Good GirlOriginal Air Date—2 October 1996
A white teenager accused of murdering an African-American man claims that she was a date-rape victim, and racial overtones threaten to overpower the actual merits of the case. |
| Season 7, Episode 4: SurvivorOriginal Air Date—23 October 1996
While investigating the murder of a coin collector, detectives discover the existence of extremely rare coins that belonged to a Holocaust survivor. |
| Season 7, Episode 5: CorruptionOriginal Air Date—30 October 1996
To avoid the consequences of a bad shooting, a corrupt police officer makes a deal to cooperate with a commission investigating police corruption. During his testimony, he accuses Briscoe of stealing drugs after an arrest. |
| Original Air Date—6 November 1996
A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control. |
| Season 7, Episode 7: DeadbeatOriginal Air Date—13 November 1996
A man is accused of killing his deadbeat, abusive ex son-in-law. He claims self defense, and the outcome of the case rides on determining who was in possession of the murder weapon at the time. |
| Original Air Date—20 November 1996
Two feuding daughters of a department store owner are suspects in a murder investigation. Both have motive and connections to the murder weapon, but getting a conviction on either daughter could prove to be difficult. |
| Season 7, Episode 9: EntrapmentOriginal Air Date—8 January 1997
Did the son of an assassinated African-American leader attempt to murder his father's successor, or is he the victim of an elaborate FBI frame-up? |
| Season 7, Episode 10: LegacyOriginal Air Date—15 January 1997
After a mother orders a professional hit on her daughter-in-law's new husband, detectives reopen an investigation into her son's death. |
| Season 7, Episode 11: MenaceOriginal Air Date—5 February 1997
A woman jumps to her death off the Brooklyn Bridge, but evidence and eyewitnesses suggest that a crazed man made her jump after they were in an auto accident. |
| Season 7, Episode 12: BarterOriginal Air Date—12 February 1997
Detectives believe that a murder victim may have been mistaken for another target. But when the actual target is also killed, they discover that a loan shark had taken out a life insurance policy on her. |
| Season 7, Episode 13: MatrimonyOriginal Air Date—19 February 1997
Evidence suggests that the murder of an elderly philanthropist was part of a conspiracy involving his lawyer and his much-younger trophy wife. |
| Original Air Date—26 February 1997
The death of a former police officer leads Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of suburban moms who work as prostitutes. |
| Season 7, Episode 15: D-GirlOriginal Air Date—13 March 1997
Briscoe and Curtis go to Los Angeles to question a personal trainer about a movie executive's murder. During the investigation, Curtis finds a potential romantic interest. |
| Season 7, Episode 16: TurnaroundOriginal Air Date—20 March 1997
Briscoe and Curtis serve an arrest warrant on a Hollywood director in the film executive murder case. Opposing counsel--Jamie's ex husband--challenges the warrant. Jack and Jamie now must go to L.A. to defend it. |
| Season 7, Episode 17: ShowtimeOriginal Air Date—27 March 1997
The prosecution's murder case against the Hollywood director threatens to fall apart. And the case could cost Jamie her job and custody of her child, and it could cost Curtis his marriage. |
| Season 7, Episode 18: Mad DogOriginal Air Date—4 April 1997
A serial rapist recently granted parole against Jack's wishes is a suspect in a new rape and murder. Detectives can't get enough evidence to charge him, so Jack orders detectives to trail and harass him. |
| Original Air Date—16 April 1997
Lawyers make a deal with a suspected cop killer in order to find a kidnapping victim. However, the DA's office wants to renege on the deal after the victim is found dead, and detectives suspect that he knew the victim was dead all along. |
| Original Air Date—30 April 1997
A good Samaritan's life is thrown into turmoil when he is accused of murder. And when Jack asks him to testify against the real killer, things only get worse for him. |
| Season 7, Episode 21: PassionOriginal Air Date—7 May 1997
The investigation into the murder of an up-and-coming editor uncovers a love triangle between the victim, a pretentious writer, and a jealous attorney. |
| Original Air Date—14 May 1997
The death of a former model is connected to the daughter she gave up for adoption, and a possible multi-million dollar inheritance claim involving the woman's biological father. |
| Season 7, Episode 23: TerminalOriginal Air Date—21 May 1997
A man opens fire during the docking of a dinner cruise boat. The Governor appoints a special prosecutor because Schiff refuses to seek the death penalty; McCoy helps Schiff appeal while Ross helps the special prosecutor at trial. Schiff's wife is hospitalized following a stroke. |
| Season 8, Episode 1: ThrillOriginal Air Date—24 September 1997
Two punks kill a random victim for the thrill of it. But the prosecution faces the difficult task of convicting two people of the same crime. |
| Season 8, Episode 2: DenialOriginal Air Date—8 October 1997
Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present McCoy and Ross with a united front of denial that one of them killed their newborn son and disposed of the body. |
| Season 8, Episode 3: Navy BluesOriginal Air Date—15 October 1997
A female Navy pilot kills an officer over their affair. However, McCoy suspects that the Navy may be impeding the D.A. office's investigation because she is a valuable asset and a positive female role model. |
| Season 8, Episode 4: HarvestOriginal Air Date—29 October 1997
The prosecution of the shooter in the death of a young mother and wife hits a snag when it is suggested that her doctor may have killed her to give away her organs and advance his career. |
| Original Air Date—5 November 1997
An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government. |
| Original Air Date—12 November 1997
Baltimore Homicide detectives Munch and Falsone help Briscoe and Curtis with a murder investigation. However, the victim's family attorney interferes with the investigation by leaking information and offering rewards. |
| Season 8, Episode 7: BloodOriginal Air Date—19 November 1997
Detectives discover that a recently-murdered white woman had recently given birth to a baby whose race reveals a well-kept secret about the baby's biological father. |
| Season 8, Episode 8: ShadowOriginal Air Date—26 November 1997
The D.A.'s office resorts to extreme measures in order to prove that a defense attorney is rigging trial outcomes, but Jamie discovers that the corruption can be traced back to one of her friends and colleagues. |
| Season 8, Episode 9: BurnedOriginal Air Date—10 December 1997
A teenage boy is suspected of starting a fire that killed his younger sister. But his powerful and influential grandfather does everything in his power to make the case go away. |
| Season 8, Episode 10: RitualOriginal Air Date—17 December 1997
An Egyptian man is murdered because he had hired an Egyptian doctor to perform a female circumcision on the man's niece. A.D.A.s McCoy and Ross have to deal with a clash between cultural convictions and the law. |
| Original Air Date—7 January 1998
Three people are killed when a possible drunk driver runs them over. A.D.A. McCoy is bent on getting a questionable death sentence in the case, but Ross believes that he is trying to get revenge for Claire Kincaid's death. |
| Season 8, Episode 12: ExpertOriginal Air Date—21 January 1998
The daughter of a convicted murderer goes on trial, accused of attempting to murder an expert witness who testified in her father's trial on his behalf. |
| Season 8, Episode 13: CastoffOriginal Air Date—28 January 1998
A serial killer who targets the New York S&M crowd claims that television is responsible for his violent behavior. |
| Season 8, Episode 14: GriefOriginal Air Date—4 February 1998
McCoy pursues murder charges against a health care worker who impregnated a comatose patient after the woman dies during childbirth. However, investigation also reveals that the victim's mother may have played a role in the incident. |
| Original Air Date—25 February 1998
A mafia hit man who was in the witness protection program turns up dead in Central Park. A mafia boss is implicated, but his defense wants him declared mentally incompetent to stand trial. |
| Season 8, Episode 16: DivorceOriginal Air Date—4 March 1998
The murder of a couples psychologist is connected to a bitterly-contested Catholic annulment and the couple's two feuding lawyers. |
| Season 8, Episode 17: CarrierOriginal Air Date—1 April 1998
The investigation into a young woman's death leads detectives to a man who has been knowingly spreading the HIV virus to his partners. McCoy pursues murder charges in a case that could have have serious political implications for Schiff. |
| Season 8, Episode 18: StalkerOriginal Air Date—15 April 1998
A stalker accused of murdering a woman could go free because the victim may have lied to police about one of his earlier attacks. |
| Original Air Date—22 April 1998
A disturbed, self-righteous activist opposed to high-rent developments is wanted for the kidnappings of a property owner and two of his tenants. However, the D.A.'s office may have to renege on the deal made with his brother to find him. |
| Season 8, Episode 20: BurdenOriginal Air Date—24 April 1998
A doctor is accused of maliciously killing a quadriplegic boy. However, the doctor claims it was a mercy killing, and that he was acting on the family's wishes. |
| Season 8, Episode 21: Bad GirlOriginal Air Date—29 April 1998
The pursuit of the death penalty for a police officer's killer who found religion in prison becomes a political football for the DA's office, and Briscoe's daughter gets in trouble with the law. |
| Season 8, Episode 22: DamagedOriginal Air Date—6 May 1998
While Jack prosecutes three teenage boys for raping a mentally retarded girl in a high school, Lennie's daughter testifies in a drug trial. |
| Season 8, Episode 23: TabloidOriginal Air Date—13 May 1998
A man confesses to killing the gossip columnist who was responsible for his wife's death. But his defense attorney tries to put the columnist's irresponsible journalistic practices on trial to avoid a conviction. |
| Season 8, Episode 24: MonsterOriginal Air Date—20 May 1998
Political pressures and a lack of manpower force detective to coerce a confession out of its only suspect in a brutal sexual assault of a young girl. |
| Season 9, Episode 1: CherishedOriginal Air Date—23 September 1998
New assistant D.A. Abbie Carmichael aggressively pursues an infant's death, and helps uncover a conspiracy involving a Russian adoption agency, gravely ill children, and an unethical doctor. |
| Season 9, Episode 2: DWBOriginal Air Date—7 October 1998
White police officers are accused of beating and dragging an African American man to his death. McCoy tries to prosecute while facing pressure from Federal prosecutors, who want to make a deal with one of the guilty parties. |
| Season 9, Episode 3: BaitOriginal Air Date—14 October 1998
A teenager who was shot in a drug deal gone bad claims to have been coerced into working as an informant for a corrupt narcotics officer. |
| Season 9, Episode 4: FlightOriginal Air Date—21 October 1998
Prosecutors have trouble making a case against a father accused of injecting his son with deadly bacteria, so Jack is forced to play hardball with the bio-supplier that may have supplied him with it. |
| Season 9, Episode 5: AgonyOriginal Air Date—4 November 1998
After a woman is brutally attacked, the police believe they have stumbled on a serial killer. Prosecutors struggle with how to put him away for life with little evidence. |
| Season 9, Episode 6: ScrambledOriginal Air Date—11 November 1998
A murder at a fertility clinic leads to a complicated, bitterly-contested case involving frozen embryos, a wealthy man, his widow, and his ex-wife. |
| Season 9, Episode 7: VenomOriginal Air Date—18 November 1998
A murder case leads detectives to a mother/son team of con artists and accusations of incest. |
| Season 9, Episode 8: PunkOriginal Air Date—25 November 1998
An inmate accused of arranging a hit on a corrections officer says that the guard raped her. She also claims that assistant DA Abbie Carmichael has a personal vendetta against her. |
| Season 9, Episode 9: True NorthOriginal Air Date—9 December 1998
The Manhattan DA's office finds itself in the middle of a battle over the death penalty when it asks the Canadian government to extradite a Canadian-born woman facing multiple murder charges. |
| Season 9, Episode 10: HateOriginal Air Date—6 January 1999
When a teenage girl is found dead in the park, the detectives uncover a group of teen racists and the adult who encouraged them. The prosecution's case sparks a debate about hate speech and the First Amendment. |
| Season 9, Episode 11: RampartsOriginal Air Date—13 January 1999
The discovery of a dead body inside a Volkswagen van dumped in a river lead Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s. |
| Season 9, Episode 12: HavenOriginal Air Date—10 February 1999
The unlikely suspect in the murder of a community activist and director of a community center in Harlem is a teen from the neighborhood who got into an Ivy League school with his help. |
| Season 9, Episode 13: HuntersOriginal Air Date—10 February 1999
Two violent and overzealous bounty hunters working for a bail bondsman interfere with a murder investigation, and are ultimately responsible for two more deaths during their pursuit. |
| Season 9, Episode 14: SideshowOriginal Air Date—17 February 1999
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| Season 9, Episode 15: DiscipleOriginal Air Date—24 February 1999
A rebellious child dies during an unsanctioned exorcism ceremony. The defendant claims that St. Michael instructed her to perform it. |
| Season 9, Episode 16: HarmOriginal Air Date—3 March 1999
Carmichael aggressively pursues criminally negligent homicide charges against a group of greedy doctors and a medical supplies saleswoman after a patient dies in surgery under unusual circumstances. |
| Season 9, Episode 17: ShieldOriginal Air Date—24 March 1999
A female police officer is accused of killing a fellow police officer, her ex-boyfriend. She firmly maintains her innocence. However, she also says that he abused her, but nobody on the force heeded her warnings or helped her. |
| Season 9, Episode 18: JuvenileOriginal Air Date—14 April 1999
An investigative reporter is shot, and evidence indicates a link to a 20-year-old murder case. Prosecutors learn that one of the reporter's stories on the case may have helped convict an innocent man of the crime. |
| Original Air Date—20 April 1999
The prime suspect in the murder of a college professor is a domineering father who kidnapped his children and disappeared 15 years earlier. |
| Season 9, Episode 20: EmpireOriginal Air Date—5 May 1999
A businessman planning to build a new football stadium in New York City is on trial for murder. But the prosecution's star witness, a professional fundraiser who was having an affair with the victim, may have her own sinister motives. |
| Season 9, Episode 21: AmbitiousOriginal Air Date—12 May 1999
The son of an imprisoned crime boss and a couple of strip club owners become the central figures in a murder investigation. |
| Season 9, Episode 22: AdmissionsOriginal Air Date—19 May 1999
An Hispanic mathematics professor is the prime suspect in the murder of a graduate student. He claims he is being racially profiled, but detectives have two potential motives. However, they cannot place him at the scene of the crime. |
| Original Air Date—26 May 1999
A brutal murder of a Russian man has ties to the Russian mob. However, the only witness who isn't compromised is a traumatized 10-year-old boy who is reluctant to testify. |
| Original Air Date—26 May 1999
Hitmen reach the last witness in the Russian mob case, which leads to the discovery of a money laundering scheme. And a related bomb scare at the police precinct forces McCoy to defy Schiff and go all out to prosecute the offenders. |
| Season 10, Episode 1: GunshowOriginal Air Date—22 September 1999
After Jack is forced to settle with a man who committed a mass murder in Central Park, he decides to go after to the gun manufacturer. |
| Season 10, Episode 2: KillerzOriginal Air Date—29 September 1999
A 10 year old girl may be responsible for the murder of a little boy in her neighborhood. |
| Season 10, Episode 3: DNROriginal Air Date—6 October 1999
Judge Denise Grobman is shot and seriously wounded when a man steals her car. Yet when investigation leads to a hired hit ordered by her husband, she vehemently refuses to believe in his guilt. |
| Season 10, Episode 4: MergerOriginal Air Date—13 October 1999
The 15-year-old daughter of a wealthy family is killed. When the child of another wealthy family is implicated, the DAs find themselves being stonewalled by both families. |
| Season 10, Episode 5: JusticeOriginal Air Date—10 November 1999
A lawyer's murder is related to a case involving a death row inmate's innocence. Former prosecutor Jamie Ross represents the lawyer's accused killer, and faces an ethical dilemma involving an "anonymous" tip and her attorney-client privilege. |
| Season 10, Episode 6: MarathonOriginal Air Date—17 November 1999
Detective Briscoe's integrity is brought into question more than once as he pursues a Hispanic robbery/murder suspect. |
| Season 10, Episode 7: PatsyOriginal Air Date—24 November 1999
A man once accused of killing his girlfriend is now accused of assaulting the woman's sister. However, he vehemently claims that he is the victim of a setup in both cases. |
| Original Air Date—1 December 1999
The motive in the murder of a retired insurance salesman appears to be a series of policies he sold to Jews in Poland during the Holocaust. |
| Season 10, Episode 9: SundownOriginal Air Date—15 December 1999
Is a man with Alzheimer's Disease competent enough to stand trial for murder? And if he is found guilty, should he be subjected to the near-inhumane conditions common for prisoners of his type? |
| Original Air Date—5 January 2000
A school bully is accused of killing a classmate. The killer's father is found to have helped foster his son's violent behavior, so the DA's office charges him with murder on account of depraved indifference. |
| Season 10, Episode 11: CollisionOriginal Air Date—26 January 2000
A homeless man with bipolar disorder accused of killing a schizophrenic woman refuses to take his medications during the trial. |
| Original Air Date—9 February 2000
Jack asks Abbie to try a case involving a young mother accused of starving her baby to death. |
| Season 10, Episode 13: PanicOriginal Air Date—16 February 2000
Detectives suspect that a best-selling novelist was shot because she was having an affair with a married FBI agent who was helping her with research. It turns out that they have the right motive, but the wrong suspect. |
| Original Air Date—18 February 2000
With the help of SVU detectives, investigators discover that the matriarch of a powerful family may have resorted to extreme measures to cover-up a murder. |
| Original Air Date—23 February 2000
A man is accused of raping and killing his girlfriend's sister and another victim. Prosecutors make a deal with the girlfriend for her testimony against the accused, but they also suspect that she was a willing participant in the murders. |
| Season 10, Episode 16: Trade ThisOriginal Air Date—1 March 2000
The murder of a stock broker leads Briscoe and Green to a coworker who is involved with a stock fraud scheme with ties to organized crime. |
| Original Air Date—22 March 2000
A lapse in judgment by two police officers results in two African Americans killing a white teen in Harlem. The case promises to set off a racial powder-keg, and drives a split between between Jack McCoy and Adam Schiff. |
| Season 10, Episode 18: MegaOriginal Air Date—5 April 2000
Six people die in a helicopter explosion. Evidence points to a millionaire con-man who provides self-actualization seminars for his wealthy clients. |
| Original Air Date—26 April 2000
The DA's office believes that a well-known psychiatrist may have driven his daughter-in-law to suicide because her affair would have ruined his career as a couples therapist. |
| Season 10, Episode 20: UntitledOriginal Air Date—3 May 2000
A man claims he acted under extreme emotional disturbance after he murders the woman who sponsored a graphic painting. |
| Season 10, Episode 21: NarcosisOriginal Air Date—10 May 2000
A prostitute's murder leads detectives on a complex investigation involving an Asian prostitution/slavery ring, police shakedowns, stolen credit cards, and a teenage Internet sex addict. |
| Season 10, Episode 22: High & LowOriginal Air Date—2000
A college coed, who is a stripper by night, gets murdered. Two drug dealers are arrested by the detectives. The dealers link her death to a famous porn star, a top business exec and an illegal insider trading scam. |
| Season 10, Episode 23: StiffOriginal Air Date—24 May 2000
A wealthy middle-aged woman is in a coma after an apparent prescription drug overdose. The incident is tied to a twisted sexual practice involving the husband, but her daughter also turns out to have a financial motive. |
| Original Air Date—24 May 2000
The DA's office prosecutes a Chilean colonel for the murder of a New Yorker working with the Communists during the Pinochet military coup. But has the office overstepped its jurisdiction? |
| Season 11, Episode 1: EnduranceOriginal Air Date—18 October 2000
A frustrated, over-stressed mother is charged with murder after starting a fire that killed her disabled son, but the case weighs heavy on Jack McCoy's conscience. Nora Lewin is introduced as DA Adam Schiff's replacement. |
| Original Air Date—25 October 2000
After a homeless man is accused of killing a woman at a subway station, McCoy learns that a health care provider may not have provided him with appropriate medical attention in order to save money. |
| Season 11, Episode 3: DissonanceOriginal Air Date—1 November 2000
Detectives discover that a murdered concert violinist was having an affair with her orchestra conductor. |
| Season 11, Episode 4: StandoffOriginal Air Date—8 November 2000
A corrections officer may have deliberately set up a confrontation in prison that resulted in the death of an inmate who raped his colleague and girlfriend. |
| Season 11, Episode 5: ReturnOriginal Air Date—15 November 2000
When a suspected murderer tries to seek shelter in Israel, the DA's office faces the difficult task of extraditing and trying him in New York while also satisfying the Jewish community. |
| Original Air Date—22 November 2000
A community activist who was formerly a Black Panther is accused of killing a police officer. He claims self-defense because of the history of police violence against African-Americans. |
| Season 11, Episode 7: AmendsOriginal Air Date—29 November 2000
A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared on accident. |
| Season 11, Episode 8: Thin IceOriginal Air Date—20 December 2000
A father confesses to killing his son's hockey coach over playing time. His defense is that he should not be considered responsible for his actions because he suffers from a mental defect known as "sports rage." |
| Season 11, Episode 9: HubrisOriginal Air Date—10 January 2001
A charming conman acts as his own defense during his murder trial. During the trial, he deliberately tries to taint the jury by flirting with the forewoman. |
| Original Air Date—17 January 2001
An AIDS researcher is killed by a monkey released in a lab by animal rights activists. The subsequent trial turns into a test case on the ethics of using animals as test subjects. |
| Original Air Date—24 January 2001
A dead female body is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade? |
| Original Air Date—7 February 2001
The murder of a man delivering Chinese food is linked to three bored teens who couldn't afford to pay. |
| Season 11, Episode 13: PhobiaOriginal Air Date—14 February 2001
Did a baby's biological father kill one of the baby's adoptive parents in order to get him back, or because of his outrage that the child was adopted by a homosexual couple? |
| Original Air Date—21 February 2001
A convicted drug dealer is accused of killing a pregnant loan officer, but it turns out to be part of a larger plot involving a professional basketball player who may be the baby's father. |
| Original Air Date—28 February 2001
A reality show cast member kills one of his castmates during a heated argument. But was the confrontation staged, and who is ultimately responsible? |
| Season 11, Episode 16: Bronx CheerOriginal Air Date—14 March 2001
The Manhattan DA's office tries a drug dealer for a murder that took place in the Bronx--a case where another man has been already been convicted of the crime by the Bronx DA's office and is serving time. |
| Season 11, Episode 17: EgoOriginal Air Date—21 March 2001
Detectives discover that an Assistant Attorney General was having an affair with a murdered investigator in his office, and that he had made threatening statements about her to his psychiatrist. |
| Season 11, Episode 18: White LieOriginal Air Date—4 April 2001
A drug dealer's murder leads detectives to a military officer's wife who was smuggling cocaine from Colombia. |
| Season 11, Episode 19: WhiplashOriginal Air Date—18 April 2001
Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of mastermind an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents. |
| Original Air Date—2 May 2001
A young man's murder appears to be connected to a paternity test and extortion attempt involving the victim's wealthy father. |
| Original Air Date—9 May 2001
Briscoe and Green are suspicious of two FBI agents who provide an alibi for an Irish mobster suspected of murder. The case is further complicated by the murder of a witness and the emergence of the mobster's lookalike brother. |
| Season 11, Episode 22: School DazeOriginal Air Date—16 May 2001
Jack goes head-to-head with his former assistant, Jamie Ross, as he prosecutes the gunman in a high school mass shooting. |
| Season 11, Episode 23: Judge DreadOriginal Air Date—23 May 2001
An accountant goes on trial after being charged with ordering a hit on the hard-as-nails judge who imposed an unusually harsh prison sentence on him just to send a message. |
| Season 11, Episode 24: Deep VoteOriginal Air Date—23 May 2001
Jack tries to prove that a state senator and a mobster conspired to kill a journalist investigating voting irregularities. But connecting the dots is difficult without cooperation from the journalist's confidential source. |
| Original Air Date—26 September 2001
A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer. |
| Original Air Date—3 October 2001
A murdered shoe-shine man turns out to be a veteran who was trying to return the Bronze Star he received during the Vietnam War. |
| Original Air Date—10 October 2001
A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband. |
| Original Air Date—24 October 2001
A diamond broker's death may have happened because he was on the verge of exposing a powerful Swiss diamond concern's connection to "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone. |
| Season 12, Episode 5: PossessionOriginal Air Date—31 October 2001
A pair of feuding siblings who share ownership of a building are suspects in the murder of one of their tenants, because she may have been the only person keeping them from selling the building for millions of dollars. |
| Original Air Date—7 November 2001
Briscoe and Green suspect that a washed-up former Vegas lounge singer may be connected to his wife's murder. But they also discover that his wife has a history as a con artist. |
| Original Air Date—14 November 2001
A fingerprint analyst's error put an innocent man in prison. Detectives discover that this may not have been the only error she has made in favor of prosecutors. |
| Original Air Date—21 November 2001
A schoolteacher dies in a building fire. The fire is linked to a group of young radical environmentalists. McCoy tries to go after the man who influenced them. |
| Original Air Date—28 November 2001
A hip-hop star goes on trial for the murder of a nightclub patron who accused him of being a sellout. |
| Season 12, Episode 10: PrejudiceOriginal Air Date—12 December 2001
The DA's office charges a racist who killed an African-American CEO over a taxicab with a hate crime. The defense responds by arguing that racism is a mental defect. |
| Season 12, Episode 11: The CollarOriginal Air Date—9 January 2002
A priest is murdered in his confessional, but another priest was the actual target. However, the targeted priest refuses to cooperate with the investigation, claiming that his communication with the killer is privileged. |
| Original Air Date—16 January 2002
An insurance company employee is killed because he was on a committee that rejected coverage of an expensive but effective drug for a young girl suffering from Leukemia. |
| Season 12, Episode 13: DR 1-102Original Air Date—30 January 2002
Serena is asked as a lawyer to help resolve a hostage situation. But her actions threaten to get her disbarred because she didn't disclose to the captor that she works as a prosecutor and wasn't his personal counsel. |
| Season 12, Episode 14: MissingOriginal Air Date—6 February 2002
A former aide for a state senator disappears and later turns up dead. The investigation uncovers an affair with a powerful state official, and that she was pregnant. |
| Original Air Date—27 February 2002
McCoy takes on a cyber investigating company after information it sells to a convicted rapist is used in the murder of his therapist. |
| Season 12, Episode 16: Born AgainOriginal Air Date—6 March 2002
A therapist is charged with murder after an 11-year-old girl dies during a "rebirthing" procedure. |
| Original Air Date—27 March 2002
Was a high school girl killed because she was going to report a sexual assault by two classmates, or because another classmate was afraid that she was going to "out" her? |
| Original Air Date—3 April 2002
The DA's office believes that an abused wife hired her brother-in-law to kill her husband. The defense claims that the woman suffers from battered wife syndrome, but was is it a case of self-defense or revenge? |
| Season 12, Episode 19: SlaughterOriginal Air Date—10 April 2002
An activist college student is killed for investigating a meat packing plant. McCoy later uncovers a connection between the plant and five E. coli deaths at a fast food chain. |
| Season 12, Episode 20: DazzledOriginal Air Date—24 April 2002
A woman is drugged and falls to her death, and the evidence suggests that her ex-husband and her current husband's ex-wife may have conspired to kill her. |
| Season 12, Episode 21: Foul PlayOriginal Air Date—1 May 2002
An investigation into the murder of a private investigator leads to the discovery of a Honduran immigrant illegally playing in a New York youth baseball league. |
| Original Air Date—8 May 2002
A sleazy criminal defense attorney is accused of killing his wife and using knowledge he obtained as a lawyer to frame a client. During the trial, he tries to further manipulate the system to avoid a conviction.
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| Season 12, Episode 23: OxymoronOriginal Air Date—15 May 2002
A doctor's murder helps detectives uncover an organized crime attempt to corner the prescription oxycodone market.
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| Season 12, Episode 24: PatriotOriginal Air Date—22 May 2002
A Desert Storm veteran who fancies himself a soldier on the War on Terror is charged with murdering an Arab man. The case becomes more complicated when evidence after the fact suggests that the victim may have indeed been a terrorist. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 2002
A teenage converted Muslim from a wealthy New York family acts as his own counsel in his murder trial, claiming that he is a victim of an American Anti-Muslim conspiracy. |
| Season 13, Episode 2: Shangri-LaOriginal Air Date—9 October 2002
A 16-year-old female high school student who is part of a murder conspiracy investigation turns out to be a 26-year-old con artist. |
| Season 13, Episode 3: True CrimeOriginal Air Date—16 October 2002
McCoy becomes suspicious of a former police officer and current true crime writer investigating the death of a controversial rock singer, when the singer's wife is killed. |
| Original Air Date—30 October 2002
Three suspects are arrested when a tourist's home video shows them leaving the victim's apartment with stolen property. McCoy and Southerlyn are surprised when Branch announces they will seek the death penalty. |
| Season 13, Episode 5: The RingOriginal Air Date—6 November 2002
A ring found on a skeleton in Hell's Kitchen indicates that the victim is a woman who was reportedly killed in the World Trade Center on 9-11. A member of a powerful political New York family is charged with her murder. |
| Season 13, Episode 6: HitmanOriginal Air Date—13 November 2002
A mob-connected contractor is murdered, and his wife and her lover are connected to a hit man hired to kill him. But the case turns out to be much more complicated than it seems. |
| Original Air Date—20 November 2002
A defense attorney is murdered hours after his client accused of shooting a cop is acquitted. Detectives suspect that a right-wing militia group is involved, and that the lives of other attorneys may be in jeopardy. |
| Season 13, Episode 8: AsteriskOriginal Air Date—27 November 2002
A star baseball player accused of killing a limo driver claims that "roid rage" made him do it. |
| Season 13, Episode 9: The WheelOriginal Air Date—11 December 2002
The discovery of a badly-burned dead body outside a Chinese official's penthouse puts the Manhattan DA's office in the middle of a dispute between the Chinese government and a religion it officially considers a cult. |
| Original Air Date—8 January 2003
A mother claims self-defense after she kills her schizophrenic son who was involved in a hit-and-run death. |
| Season 13, Episode 11: ChosenOriginal Air Date—15 January 2003
A defense attorney tries to exploit the jury's sympathy for Israel in the hopes that it will get his bookie client found innocent of a murder charge. |
| Season 13, Episode 12: Under GodOriginal Air Date—5 February 2003
A drug dealer turns up dead, leading detectives to members of a neighborhood watch group whose lives were poisoned by the victim. The priest who leads the group confesses to the crime, claiming that God told him to do it. |
| Season 13, Episode 13: AbsentiaOriginal Air Date—12 February 2003
A man scheduled to testify in a murder trial disappears. The DA's office discovers that he's actually a radical who disappeared 20 years earlier after being charged with killing his girlfriend. |
| Original Air Date—19 February 2003
A young man with an 80 IQ confesses to committing a murder. However, assistant DA Southerlyn suspects that a beautiful but manipulative woman he was trying to impress may have talked him into his plea. |
| Season 13, Episode 15: B*tchOriginal Air Date—26 February 2003
A successful businesswoman is accused of killing her stock broker and lover over insider trading issues. However, she claims she suffered a psychotic break because she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy. |
| Season 13, Episode 16: Suicide BoxOriginal Air Date—26 March 2003
An African-American teenager shoots a police officer because he's angry about the lack of investigation into his brother's death. And a re-opening of that investigation aggravates some deep racial tensions. |
| Season 13, Episode 17: GeniusOriginal Air Date—2 April 2003
A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty. |
| Season 13, Episode 18: MaritimeOriginal Air Date—17 April 2003
A former star quarterback and his agent go missing after an all-night boating party and are presumed dead. The quarterback's deadbeat, drug-addicted brother quickly becomes the prime suspect. |
| Season 13, Episode 19: SeerOriginal Air Date—23 April 2003
A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker? |
| Season 13, Episode 20: Kid Pro QuoOriginal Air Date—30 April 2003
A prep school headmaster is accused of murdering his school's admissions director after overruling her on a controversial admissions selection. |
| Season 13, Episode 21: House CallsOriginal Air Date—7 May 2003
Did a shady doctor irresponsibly prescribe pain-killing drugs to one of his patients, which resulted in her death? |
| Season 13, Episode 22: ShelteredOriginal Air Date—14 May 2003
As the DA's office tries to prosecute a teenage sniper who killed four people, prosecutors discover that he was abducted from his real family as a child and emotionally abused by the man he was living with. |
| Season 13, Episode 23: CouplesOriginal Air Date—21 May 2003
Briscoe and Green catch three murder cases and one kidnapping on the same day, and one murder is tied to a fourth murder which happened ten years ago. Each case apparently involves domestic disputes gone wrong. |
| Season 13, Episode 24: SmokeOriginal Air Date—21 May 2003
The child of a popular comic dies after he is reportedly thrown out of a window during a fire. However, the investigation also uncovers allegations that the comic molested an 11-year-old boy years earlier. |
| Season 14, Episode 1: BodiesOriginal Air Date—24 September 2003
A serial killer refuses to tell Jack McCoy the names and locations of all of his victims. The killer's defense attorney has the information too, but refuses to disclose it because of attorney-client privilege. |
| Season 14, Episode 2: BountyOriginal Air Date—1 October 2003
A bounty hunter's murder in a motel room is connected to a journalist who may have fabricated a story about the criminal the bounty hunter was chasing. |
| Original Air Date—8 October 2003
A carjacking murder investigation becomes complicated by a SARS outbreak in New York City, and the discovery of medical container with the virus in the stolen car. |
| Season 14, Episode 4: ShrunkOriginal Air Date—22 October 2003
A popular Broadway composer is accused of murder. His psychiatrist blames it on a traumatic episode he had as a teenager, but McCoy discovers that the doctor may also have a motive. |
| Season 14, Episode 5: BlazeOriginal Air Date—29 October 2003
The leader of a rock band is accused of tampering with a flamethrower at a concert, which caused the deaths of 23 people. However, an enamored teenage fan may be willing to commit perjury to give him an alibi. |
| Season 14, Episode 6: IdentityOriginal Air Date—5 November 2003
An 80-year-old man is accused of killing the man who stole his identity and caused him to lose his home. However, the defendant's son wants him declared incompetent to stand trial. |
| Season 14, Episode 7: FloaterOriginal Air Date—12 November 2003
A murder investigation leads detectives to a judge who may be taking bribes from a select group of divorce lawyers to rig their cases. |
| Season 14, Episode 8: EmbeddedOriginal Air Date—19 November 2003
A reporter, just back from Iraq, is shot in the back by a military-issue handgun. Did he put soldiers' lives at risk with his reporting, and was the shooting payback for it? |
| Season 14, Episode 9: CompassionOriginal Air Date—26 November 2003
Did a pediatric oncologist kill a con artist over a failed investment, or did she actually crack mentally over the stress of dealing with terminally-ill children? |
| Original Air Date—3 December 2003
An illegal Mexican immigrant is accused of killing his wife's sweatshop boss because he was their baby's father. He claims, however, that his wife was forced to be his boss's surrogate mother. |
| Season 14, Episode 11: DarwinianOriginal Air Date—7 January 2004
A homeless man goes on trial for manslaughter, accused of killing another homeless man. His defense attorney argues that the laws of civilized society should not apply to homeless people because of their realities. |
| Season 14, Episode 12: PaybackOriginal Air Date—14 January 2004
A real estate broker is accused of being an unlikely hit man for a former mob boss recently released from prison and trying to get his old crew back. |
| Original Air Date—4 February 2004
The detectives break the news of a woman's murder to her sister, but she turns out to really be her ex-girlfriend and disappears with the victim's adopted child, who had previously lived with the couple. |
| Season 14, Episode 14: City HallOriginal Air Date—11 February 2004
A city councilman and a water inspector are victims of a shooting in City Hall. Prosecution of the guilty party is difficult because the murder weapon was obtained through a secretive FISA warrant. |
| Original Air Date—18 February 2004
An angry veteran whose son died in Iraq claims extreme emotional disturbance after he is charged with killing a young Iraq War protester he thought was provoking him. |
| Original Air Date—25 February 2004
A boy is murdered in the park in front of two witnesses by a man on a bicycle. When the witnesses are repeatedly threatened and one turns up dead, the case against the murderer begins to unravel. |
| Season 14, Episode 17: Hands FreeOriginal Air Date—3 March 2004
Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems. |
| Season 14, Episode 18: Evil BreedsOriginal Air Date—24 March 2004
The main witness in the deportation trial of a purported Nazi war criminal is found beaten to death in her home. Suspicion soon falls upon the former guard, as well as a white supremacist entrepreneur who supported his cause. |
| Season 14, Episode 19: Nowhere ManOriginal Air Date—31 March 2004
Detectives discover that a murdered assistant district attorney had an assumed identity, and that he never graduated from law school. They also discover that he made a mob-related murder case in his files disappear. |
| Original Air Date—14 April 2004
A film producer is killed at Raimondo's, a restaurant known for its mob ties and celebrity clientèle. Briscoe and Green discover that the producer was feuding with a novelist over profits for a movie based on the writer's book about Raimondo's. |
| Season 14, Episode 21: VendettaOriginal Air Date—21 April 2004
A former prisoner exonerated on murder charges kills another man. He claims he wouldn't have done it if he wasn't wrongfully imprisoned in the first place, so prosecutors must prove that he had a prior history of criminal behavior. |
| Season 14, Episode 22: GaijinOriginal Air Date—28 April 2004
The murder of a prominent Japanese model visiting New York City may have been a Yakuza-related murder for hire. |
| Original Air Date—12 May 2004
A Persian caviar businessman is found dead in his bed, and the victim's children and new young wife become murder suspects. |
| Season 14, Episode 24: C.O.D.Original Air Date—19 May 2004
Two women are accused of conspiring to murder each other's husbands, but Jack and Serena are forced to try the cases simultaneously and separately. Meanwhile, Detective Briscoe announces his retirement. |
| Season 15, Episode 1: ParadigmOriginal Air Date—22 September 2004
Green and his new partner, Joe Fontana, investigate the murder of an Iraq War veteran who has more incriminating Abu Ghraib prison photos. An Iraqi woman who is an American citizen is charged, but she claims to be a prisoner of war. |
| Original Air Date—22 September 2004
A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged. |
| Original Air Date—29 September 2004
A prison guard is charged with killing a released member of a white supremacist prison gang. The guard says the victim threatened him and his family. The gang also threatens the judge presiding over the trial. |
| Original Air Date—6 October 2004
Two student suicides are connected to a university drug study. The investigation uncovers that the pharmaceutical company that commissioned the study may have known about adverse side-effects, but tried to cover it up. |
| Season 15, Episode 5: GunplayOriginal Air Date—20 October 2004
Black market gun dealers murder two undercover officers during a gun buy. During prosecution, McCoy begins to suspect that a bitter defense attorney may have masterminded the entire episode. |
| Season 15, Episode 6: CutOriginal Air Date—27 October 2004
A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide. |
| Season 15, Episode 7: Gov LoveOriginal Air Date—10 November 2004
McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant. |
| Season 15, Episode 8: Cry WolfOriginal Air Date—17 November 2004
A mob boss is accused of ordering a hit on a urban vigilante group leader who was seeing his mistress. However, when the mistress is killed before the trial, he insists that he truly loved her and had absolutely nothing to do with it. |
| Original Air Date—24 November 2004
A diamond broker's wife is accused of hiring Russian mobsters to arrange a hit on her husband. |
| Season 15, Episode 10: EnemyOriginal Air Date—1 December 2004
An Afghani drug lord is implicated in a drug-related massacre in New York. However, prosecution is difficult because the government considers him an ally in the War on Terror in Afghanistan. |
| Season 15, Episode 11: FixedOriginal Air Date—8 December 2004
A frustrated prison social worker is accused of taking the law into her own hands with a dangerous man whom she knew was violating the terms of his parole agreement. |
| Season 15, Episode 12: MammonOriginal Air Date—5 January 2005
A contractor is suspected in the murder of an investment banker after detectives discover that the home's security system has been tampered with, and he was having an affair with the man's wife. |
| Original Air Date—12 January 2005
A young hip-hop performer is accused of murdering a rap mogul, but his friend testifies during the trial that he is the killer. Serena objects to prosecution tactics, and Branch fires her. |
| Season 15, Episode 14: FluencyOriginal Air Date—19 January 2005
Sixteen people die from influenza after they received counterfeit flu vaccine shots. New A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia helps Jack McCoy prosecute the responsible party for manslaughter. |
| Season 15, Episode 15: ObsessionOriginal Air Date—9 February 2005
The investigation into the death of a conservative talk show host leads to a stalker who claims to be having an affair with his wife. McCoy suspects that the wife manipulated her into killing him. |
| Original Air Date—16 February 2005
A hot-tempered basketball star is accused of killing one of his hecklers. The investigation and trial, however, reveal that the heckler's pattern of harassment may have crossed the line of decency on several occasions. |
| Original Air Date—23 February 2005
McCoy faces the unpopular decision to pursue charges against a vigilante who used his car to track down a man who murdered a group of hunters.
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| Season 15, Episode 18: Dining OutOriginal Air Date—2 March 2005
The host of a popular cooking show is on trial for killing a television executive. However, the trial takes an unexpected turn when a juror enamored with the client is accused of trying to profit from the trial.
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| Season 15, Episode 19: SectsOriginal Air Date—29 March 2005
A murder/attempted suicide investigation leads to a religious cult that promotes pedophilia, but finding charges that will stick to the group's leader proves to be difficult.
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| Season 15, Episode 20: TombstoneOriginal Air Date—13 April 2005
A lawyer from a prestigious corporate law firm is murdered. One of the firm's senior partners is reluctant to testify against the accused for selfish reasons. Detective Green is critically wounded escorting a reluctant witness.
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| Original Air Date—20 April 2005
Fontana and his new temporary partner, Nick Falco, investigate the murder of a porn star. After the woman charged with her murder is also killed, they uncover a connection to both victims and a politically ambitious ex-police commissioner.
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| Original Air Date—4 May 2005
A jockey's murder leads detectives to a businessman who is accused of stealing from his company's pension fund to purchase personal luxury items.
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| Original Air Date—11 May 2005
A man confesses to a nine-year-old racially motivated murder. His defense attorney argues that he should not be punished because he is a born-again Christian and has already done his penance.
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| Season 15, Episode 24: LocomotionOriginal Air Date—18 May 2005
A failed suicide attempts leads to a train crash that kills 12 people. The defendant's attorney initially offers an insanity defense. However, he is soon fired, as the defendant represents himself and changes his plea.
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| Season 16, Episode 1: Red BallOriginal Air Date—21 September 2005
When a little girl is abducted as part of a car-jacking, McCoy must bargain with the devil in the form of a system-savvy criminal.
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| Season 16, Episode 2: FlawOriginal Air Date—28 September 2005
The death of a con-man who tried to call Olivia Benson just before he was murdered brings Olivia and Fin to the assistance of Fontana and Green, and leads to a slippery mother/daughter team.
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| Season 16, Episode 3: GhostsOriginal Air Date—5 October 2005
A deathbed confession reopens one of Fontana's old murder cases involving a young model, one in which he believed that the father was the killer. Branch and the father want the case to go away, but McCoy is bent on going to trial.
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| Original Air Date—12 October 2005
The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.
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| Season 16, Episode 5: Life LineOriginal Air Date—19 October 2005
A businessman is coerced by a gang to murder an investigative journalist in order to guarantee protection for his son, who is serving time in prison.
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| Season 16, Episode 6: BirthrightOriginal Air Date—2 November 2005
A nurse is accused of performing illegal sterilizations on troubled teens without their knowledge, which resulted in the death of one of her patients.
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| Original Air Date—9 November 2005
A single mother is killed and her baby stolen, and police find the child with a woman who took the baby while pretending to be pregnant.
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| Original Air Date—16 November 2005
The murder of a trucker blows open a case involving illegal trafficking and the citizen border patrol
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| Original Air Date—23 November 2005
Three women with identical names are murdered with the same m.o.. And Fontana and Green's investigation turns up a "hit list" with Jack McCoy's name on it, as well as a number of witnesses in one of his trials.
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| Season 16, Episode 10: AcidOriginal Air Date—30 November 2005
Van Buren relentlessly pursues a cocky suspect she believes was responsible for driving a friend's daughter to suicide, because he allegedly attacked her with drain cleaner. But her resulting actions could put the case in jeopardy.
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| Season 16, Episode 11: Bible StoryOriginal Air Date—7 December 2005
A synagogue's Chumash is stolen and desecrated, and the crime must be solved before a religious war breaks out in downtown Manhattan.
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| Original Air Date—11 January 2006
After an accountant for the mob is stabbed to death, a corrupt police officer who grew up with the victim takes justice into his own hands. However, pursuing the case could put the officer's other convictions in jeopardy.
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| Original Air Date—18 January 2006
McCoy pursues murder charges against a woman in an assisted suicide case, but he finds out during the trial that a third party may have also been involved. |
| Season 16, Episode 14: MagnetOriginal Air Date—8 February 2006
A teenager from a rich family kills a schoolmate because he refused to sell him test answers. His defense argues that he was not responsible for his actions because of the medication he was prescribed. |
| Original Air Date—1 March 2006
A suburban mom ends up admitting to the detectives that she shot and killed her own teenage son out of fear that the boy would become a menace to society. |
| Original Air Date—8 March 2006
The murder of a banker leads to the discovery that he was having a relationship with her boss. McCoy's case rides on the testimony of the defendant's 14-year-old daughter. However, her testimony also reveals a shocking family secret. |
| Original Air Date—22 March 2006
While Jack is prosecuting a man who murdered a military contractor, the prosecution is interrupted by the recent capture of a terrorist. |
| Original Air Date—29 March 2006
Fontana is accused of using excessively violent tactics to force a kidnapping suspect to reveal the location of the victim. Prosecutors are left to decide whether the ends justified the means. |
| Season 16, Episode 19: PositiveOriginal Air Date—5 April 2006
A boy's suicide note alleging misconduct of his sister's doctor results in the investigation of a physician administering illegal AIDS drugs. |
| Season 16, Episode 20: KingmakerOriginal Air Date—3 May 2006
A paper reveals the identity of an undercover officer, getting her killed, and the trail may lead to a politician's office. |
| Season 16, Episode 21: HindsightOriginal Air Date—10 May 2006
Fontana and Green investigate Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, who becomes a suspect in an investigation after a woman he had spent the night with is found slashed to death in his bathroom. |
| Season 16, Episode 22: InvadersOriginal Air Date—17 May 2006
A case involving fake DEA badges leads to the death of A.D.A. Borgia. McCoy is forced to resort to dubious legal tactics to ensure that Borgia's killers are brought to justice. |
| Season 17, Episode 1: FameOriginal Air Date—22 September 2006
A botched burglary ends in murder, and the apartment in question belongs to a paparazzi who may have compromising photos of a celebrity and her baby. |
| Season 17, Episode 2: AvatarOriginal Air Date—29 September 2006
A murder is discovered on a social networking web site, and sorting out all the suspects and those who have moral responsibility complicates convicting the killer. |
| Season 17, Episode 3: Home SweetOriginal Air Date—6 October 2006
A girl is killed in a building explosion. The owner was offered millions to sell the property, but turned down the highest offer--much to the chagrin of his ex-wife. |
| Original Air Date—13 October 2006
An Arab man killed on video, purportedly by a white supremacist group, may have actually been killed for helping the FBI infiltrate an Arab terrorist cell in New York city. |
| Original Air Date—20 October 2006
Green and Cassady investigate the murder of a child molester exposed on a national television news program. |
| Season 17, Episode 6: ProfiteerOriginal Air Date—27 October 2006
An executive of a body armor company is gunned down while arriving at his daughter's $2 million sweet-16 party; detectives tie the incident to a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq when his vest failed. |
| Original Air Date—3 November 2006
A washed-up, anti-Semitic actor is arrested with blood on his clothes. Detectives later discover that a Jewish television producer he has connections to has been murdered. But what role, if any, did he play in it? |
| Season 17, Episode 8: ReleaseOriginal Air Date—10 November 2006
A co-ed is accused of murdering a man inside a "Babes Being Bad" tour bus. But was she raped by the owner of the company, and is he ultimately responsible for the murder? |
| Season 17, Episode 9: DeadlockOriginal Air Date—17 November 2006
An ambitious defense attorney tries to use a murder case as a referendum on the death penalty, but Jack is worried that her client may not be getting the best advice. |
| Original Air Date—8 December 2006
A high-end escort is arrested for the murder of a lawyer tied to a corporate scandal and scheduled to testify before Congress. But somebody other than the victim may have been paying for her services. |
| Original Air Date—5 January 2007
The investigation into the death of a gold-digger's drug addict son uncovers a potential plot to illegally harvest dead body parts for medical transplants. |
| Original Air Date—12 January 2007
The adopted infant of a soap opera star and a relative of the baby's biological father are central to a murder investigation. |
| Original Air Date—2 February 2007
A Ph.D. student working on stem cell research goes on trial after the attempted murder of a controversial, outspoken right-wing pundit results in the death of an audience member. |
| Season 17, Episode 14: ChurchOriginal Air Date—9 February 2007
The death of a gay male actor exposes a scandal that threatens to bring down the powerful pastor of a large New York church who preaches intolerance toward homosexuals. |
| Season 17, Episode 15: Melting PotOriginal Air Date—16 February 2007
The murder of a film director leads to motives that include immigration and Muslim fanaticism, but picking the correct one may be difficult. |
| Season 17, Episode 16: Murder BookOriginal Air Date—23 February 2007
Green and Cassady investigate the death of a publishing agent who approved a book written by an ex-athlete that describes how he would have murdered his wife if he was in fact the real killer. |
| Season 17, Episode 17: Good FaithOriginal Air Date—30 March 2007
A fundamentalist Christian goes on trial for murder, but he claims that he was protecting his daughter from Divine Retribution for learning Evolution theory in school. |
| Season 17, Episode 18: BlingOriginal Air Date—6 April 2007
A jeweler who caters to the hip-hop community pleads guilty to killing a female rap star. But he later claims that a violent record producer intimidated him into confessing to the crime. |
| Season 17, Episode 19: FalloutOriginal Air Date—27 April 2007
The DA's office prosecutes a Russian police officer for poisoning to death a Russian immigrant who kidnapped his daughter for a prostitution ring in New York. |
| Season 17, Episode 20: CaptiveOriginal Air Date—4 May 2007
While investigating a kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a second kidnapped boy, missing for years, is found living with his captor. But how will Jack handle prosecuting the boy when it is discovered that he is the killer? |
| Season 17, Episode 21: Over HereOriginal Air Date—11 May 2007
While prosecuting an Iraq War veteran for murder, Jack discovers that his crime may be related to the deplorable conditions he was subjected to at a V.A. hospital. |
| Original Air Date—18 May 2007
While investigating the murder of a senator's ex-wife, detectives find an alarming history of domestic abuse involving the entire family. However, the investigation comes to an abrupt halt when the senator is caught killing his daughter. |
| Original Air Date—2 January 2008
Former New York detective Cyrus Lupo returns after his brother's suicide. The investigation reveals a relationship between two assisted suicides, a notorious assisted suicide doctor, his daughter, and an investigative journalist. |
| Season 18, Episode 2: DarknessOriginal Air Date—2 January 2008
A mother and daughter are kidnapped during a blackout, and the blackout impedes Green and Lupo's investigation. Once the kidnappers are located, A.D.A. Cutter discovers that they had prior knowledge that the blackout was going to happen. |
| Original Air Date—9 January 2008
A pipe bomb injures a pregnant security guard, and when Lupo crosses a line gathering evidence it may harm the DA's case. |
| Season 18, Episode 4: BottomlessOriginal Air Date—16 January 2008
A murder over a missing pair of dry-cleaned pants leads the DA's office to a public health scandal involving a giant discount department store chain. |
| Season 18, Episode 5: DrivenOriginal Air Date—23 January 2008
The DA's office faces the difficult task of ensuring equal justice for an African American father and a white mother for their roles in the shooting deaths of two people during a racially-motivated confrontation. |
| Original Air Date—30 January 2008
A fugitive con artist working as a political fund-raiser is charged in a triple homicide. In order to cast reasonable doubt during the trial, he points the finger at several prominent politicians he supported. |
| Season 18, Episode 7: Quit ClaimOriginal Air Date—6 February 2008
A.D.A. Cutter matches wits with a slippery, manipulative con artist who is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime. |
| Season 18, Episode 8: IllegalOriginal Air Date—13 February 2008
An auxiliary police officer is accused of shooting and killing a protester at an immigration rally. McCoy is accused of having a liberal ax to grind when he vigorously pursues charges against the officer. |
| Original Air Date—20 February 2008
An innocent doctor is murdered in a case of mistaken identity. The intended target performed a botched lethal injection in South Carolina. |
| Season 18, Episode 10: TangoOriginal Air Date—27 February 2008
Cutter prosecutes a junkie and her pimp boyfriend for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman. But is he exploiting ADA Rubirosa's attractiveness to gain favor with a juror and improve their chances at a conviction? |
| Season 18, Episode 11: BetrayalOriginal Air Date—5 March 2008
A wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victims |
| Season 18, Episode 12: SubmissionOriginal Air Date—12 March 2008
The discovery of a dogfighting ring leads to an investigation of the disappearance of one of the participants' wives. A television reporter's testimony helps charge the husband, but did she conspire to frame him? |
| Season 18, Episode 13: AngelgroveOriginal Air Date—19 March 2008
A fanatical Christian teenager is implicated in the stoning death of his mother because of her adultery. Did the boy's pastor incite him to take action, and is he criminally responsible? |
| Season 18, Episode 14: Burn CardOriginal Air Date—23 April 2008
When Detective Green shoots a murder suspect, an internal investigation reveals that he had a gambling problem and once owed money to the suspect. The DA's office reluctantly pursues murder charges against him. |
| Season 18, Episode 15: BogeymanOriginal Air Date—30 April 2008
Lupo and his new partner, Kevin Bernard, discover that a woman's suicide may actually be a murder. The case appears to be tied to a secretive religious group that some people consider a cult, but is the group to blame? |
| Season 18, Episode 16: StrikeOriginal Air Date—7 May 2008
A legal aid strike forces A.D.A. Rubirosa to go head-to-head with Cutter in a murder trial, when she is appointed as the defendant's counsel. |
| Original Air Date—14 May 2008
A murder investigation leads Lupo and Bernard to Plattsburgh, where a con artist is posing as her runaway daughter on a social networking website to lure men out of their money. |
| Season 18, Episode 18: ExcaliburOriginal Air Date—21 May 2008
While preparing a murder case, the DA's office stumbles on a potential scandal involving a prostitution business and the governor of New York, and it could have serious implications on Jack McCoy's future as District Attorney. |
| Season 19, Episode 1: RumbleOriginal Air Date—5 November 2008
Jack McCoy uses a post-9/11 terrorism statute to prosecute a group of street fighters involved in a deadly retaliatory brawl--a move that A.D.A. Cutter strongly disagrees with. |
| Season 19, Episode 2: ChallengedOriginal Air Date—12 November 2008
A mentally retarded man who witnessed a murder holds the key to revealing the victim's shocking family secret, as well as shocking information about the identity of the killer. |
| Season 19, Episode 3: Lost BoysOriginal Air Date—18 November 2008
An investigation into the death of a 17-year-old boy leads Lupo and Bernard into the world of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, its polygamist leader, and one of his wives who is trying to get away from him. |
| Season 19, Episode 4: FallingOriginal Air Date—26 November 2008
A fatality in a crane accident leads prosecutors to a case involving the victim's wife, who is discovered to be in a coma, and a controversial procedure that could intentionally stunt a handicapped young girl's growth |
| Season 19, Episode 5: Knock OffOriginal Air Date—3 December 2008
The investigation into the murder of an upstate New York man in Chinatown appears to be cut and dry, until detectives discover a possible cover-up in the case that leads all the way to the governor's office. |
| Season 19, Episode 6: SweetieOriginal Air Date—10 December 2008
While investigating the death of a former male prostitute whose memoirs have become a best-seller, Lupo and Bernard discover that the writer was a fraud and that his memoirs were based on another person's life. |
| Season 19, Episode 7: ZeroOriginal Air Date—16 December 2008
A law clerk enamored with A.D.A. Cutter may have an undue influence over the judge she works for in one of Cutter's trials, but could there be another reason for her actions? |
| Season 19, Episode 8: ChattelOriginal Air Date—7 January 2009
While investigating the deaths of two married divorce lawyers, Lupo and Bernard uncover a connection to couple running a Haitian child slavery ring. |
| Season 19, Episode 9: By PerjuryOriginal Air Date—14 January 2009
Cutter finds himself pitted against a lawyer whose manipulation of the legal system keeps letting him get away with murder, and Lupo's mistake risks the current case and Cutter's life. |
| Season 19, Episode 10: PledgeOriginal Air Date—21 January 2009
The prime suspect in the murders of the son and housekeeper of married university researchers is a journalist who appears to be obsessed with girls from a particular sorority. |
| Season 19, Episode 11: Lucky StiffOriginal Air Date—28 January 2009
A con artist is convicted in the death of one of his "business partners." But when he and his wife are killed after his conviction, a new motive--and new suspects--emerge in the original crime. |
| Original Air Date—4 February 2009
The DA's office tries to prove that a businessman who believes that he is the illegitimate son of President Kennedy was the mastermind of a plot that ended with three dead bodies. |
| Original Air Date—11 February 2009
Detectives have two viable suspects in the firebombing of an Army recruiting center that killed an infant inside the building, but an overzealous vigilante crime-fighting group interferes with the investigation |
| Season 19, Episode 14: RaptureOriginal Air Date—18 February 2009
The owner of a Rapture website is killed by a man working to return Soviet Jews to Israel to fulfill Biblical prophecy. However, the killer seeks shelter at the Iranian embassy, leaving the DA's office in an unenviable position. |
| Season 19, Episode 15: BailoutOriginal Air Date—11 March 2009
The manager of a failing youth recreation center faces trial in the kidnapping and death of a young woman. However, he blames his troubles on a disgraced Wall Street CEO--the victim's lover--who failed to provide an important donation. |
| Season 19, Episode 16: Take-OutOriginal Air Date—18 March 2009
The investigation into the murder of a journalist could shed new light on an espionage case involving a man serving life in prison for spying for the Chinese government. |
| Original Air Date—25 March 2009
A murdered television news reporter was investigating allegations that a billionaire Wall Street investment adviser was a fraud, but figuring out who killed her proves to be difficult |
| Original Air Date—29 April 2009
The prosecution of a group of teenagers for the brutal beating of an illegal Honduran immigrant proves to be a thorny and delicate issue for the District Attorney's office. |
| Season 19, Episode 19: All NewOriginal Air Date—6 May 2009
A firefighter and his wife are brutally killed. The DA's office faces the politically unpopular decision to prosecute another firefighter, who may have resorted to extreme measures to cover up his crime. |
| Season 19, Episode 20: ExchangeOriginal Air Date—13 May 2009
As Cutter and Rubirosa prosecute a mentally disturbed woman for the deaths of two British researchers, they begin to suspect that the defendant's brother may have orchestrated the entire episode for personal gain. |
| Original Air Date—20 May 2009
Cutter needs the cooperation of a paranoid schizophrenic serial killer in order to prosecute two of his associates who are accused of committing a copycat crime. |
| Original Air Date—3 June 2009
A murder investigation uncovers connections to the governor's wife, and perhaps a scandal involving the governor and an appointment for an open US Senate seat. But can Jack McCoy successfully prosecute and not risk his chances at being elected? |
| Original Air Date—25 September 2009
The shooting death of a veteran of the War on Terror leads to an investigation and conspiracy indictment against a former Bush Justice Department employee on conspiracy charges involving the torture of prisoners. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 2009
A crime scene technician is killed, and Detective Lupo jeopardizes the investigation when he gets sexually involved with a second victim who later becomes a suspect in the original case. |
| Original Air Date—9 October 2009
The DA's office is forced to tackle an embarrassing case involving domestic terrorists, the explosion of a synagogue with materials supplied by the police, and an informant who may have been lying all along to keep out of trouble.
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| Original Air Date—16 October 2009
The father of several adopted special needs children is accused of killing his wife over her reluctance to sign off on a reality show based on their family, and the subsequent trial threatens to turn into a media circus. |
| Season 20, Episode 5: DignityOriginal Air Date—23 October 2009
A late-term abortion doctor is killed, which leads to the emotionally-charged trial of a pro-life advocate, and threatens to drive a wedge between Cutter and Rubirosa. |
| Original Air Date—30 October 2009
The DA's office takes on the operator of a website dedicated to righting social wrongs after a delusional woman used information gathered on a website to kill a man. |
| Original Air Date—6 November 2009
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| Season 20, Episode 8: DopedOriginal Air Date—6 November 2009
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| Original Air Date—20 November 2009
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