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Rene Balcer (writer)
Dick Wolf (creator)
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Original Air Date:
7 January 1998 (Season 8, Episode 11)
Plot:
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. | add synopsis
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Since when should a drunk driver be able to claim mitigating factors? more (2 total)
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(Episode Credited cast) | Jerry Orbach | ... | Detective Lennie Briscoe |
 | Benjamin Bratt | ... | Detective Rey Curtis |
 | S. Epatha Merkerson | ... | Lt. Anita Van Buren |
 | Sam Waterston | ... | Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy |
 | Carey Lowell | ... | A.D.A. Jamie Ross |
| Steven Hill | ... | D.A. Adam Schiff |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Gene Canfield | ... | Det. Fred Norris |
 | Robert Catrini | ... | Carl Pettijohn |
| Rony Clanton | ... | Alternator Jones |
| Augusta Dabney | ... | Mrs. LaValle |
| Joseph P. Dandry | ... | Day Doorman |
 | John Fiore | ... | Detective Tony Profaci |
| David Garrison | ... | Richard Billings |
| Cliff Gorman | ... | Judge Gary Feldman |
| Europe Harmon | ... | Reggie Clanton |
| Matthew Lewis | ... | Judge Dennis Murphy |
 | Daniel McDonald | ... | Bernard Dressler |
 | Kathryn Meisle | ... | Susan Young |
 | Chuck Montgomery | ... | Bob Gilsdorf |
| Pat Moya | ... | Deborah Curtis |
| Melanie Rey | ... | Mrs. Galvez |
| Claywood Sempliner | ... | Fischer |
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Jack McCoy:
Kills three people and hides behind the bottle.
Jamie Ross:
The law says he can.
Jack McCoy:
The law. Probably written on a cocktail napkin. Intent follows the bullet. It shouldn't matter if it was fired by a drunk or Carrie Nation.
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
I'm watching this episode even as I type...and I'm as outraged by it now as I was when I first saw it.
Of course, in one sense it would never happen. The flight attendant who kept giving the drunk the liquor even though he was clearly too drunk to even speak properly would have been sued to within an inch of her life by the guy, who would have course have not gone to jail at all, since it wasn't his fault he was drunk, it was the flight attendant's fault because she kept giving him the liquor! At least, that's the way it would have happened in real life.
In real life, too many drunk drivers get away with murder, over and over again, because they were drunk at the time they killed their victims. They should be sent to jail for a long time, not let out after a couple of years to kill again.
As for this show, the guy knows he "blacks out" if he's drunk too much, that he'd already had an accident two years previous where he'd put a girl in a coma...
It's just stupid that he'd get a lesser sentence because he was "drunk"!