A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.
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- (as Cathy Moriarty-Gentile)
- Melissa Cobin
- (as Katherine Moennig)
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- (as Joseph LaRocca)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the Debra Hartmann case.
- GoofsWhile reading the verdict the jury foreman says that the charge is "homicide in the first degree", it should have been "murder in the first degree." Homicide and murder are not the same thing, murder is a type of criminal charge resulting from one person intentionally causing the death of another person, whereas homicide is just a manner of death. Whenever a person dies as a result of the actions of another person, whether it be from a negligent or reckless action that unintentionally causes a death or from an action that was intended to cause death, that person's death is ruled to be a homicide. The criminal charges for a homicide include (from least severe to worst): criminally negligent homicide, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter in the second degree (involuntary), vehicular manslaughter in the first degree, aggravated manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter in the first degree (voluntary), aggravated manslaughter in the first degree, murder in the second degree, aggravated murder and murder in the first degree.
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Jack McCoy: Your Honor can't seriously entertain the notion that a defendant can benefit in one murder by killing the witness by committing another.
Judge Donald Karan: I didn't draft the Constitution, Mr. McCoy.
Jack McCoy: No, but you can interpret it. These two cases are inextricably linked. What's the good of proving that the defendant had an opportunity to kill Buck if I can't show the jury why?
Judge Donald Karan: You raise a good point.
Mr. Axtell: Your Honor, any mention of the Colbin murder would prejudice the jury irreparably.
Judge Donald Karan: Which is why I won't allow these two homicides to be tried together.
Jack McCoy: Your Honor...
Judge Donald Karan: However, what I will do is allow the People to present evidence of Alan Colbin's murder, only insofar as it pertains to motive in the murder of Ronald Buck.
[seeing McCoy and Axtell both don't like his decision]
Judge Donald Karan: Ooh, I always know I'm right when neither party's happy.
- ConnectionsReferences The Sopranos (1999)
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- Feb 23, 2022
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