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Double Jeopardy 4 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Cases shaped by the rule that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime.

  1. Season 7 · Episode 16

    Gone

    Aired February 28, 2006 · Rape and murder

    A Canadian teenager disappears on a school trip to New York, and the case against three prep school boys rests on a gentle witness who then vanishes himself.

  2. Season 8 · Episode 21

    Pretend

    Aired May 15, 2007 · Homicide

    A boy’s death in a staged fight leads to a manipulative best friend and a grieving girlfriend who has been posing as a teenager for years.

  3. Season 11 · Episode 4

    Hammered

    Aired October 14, 2009 · Murder

    A recovering alcoholic wakes up next to a murdered abortion doctor with no memory of the night, and his trial exposes the prosecutor’s own drinking.

  4. Season 12 · Episode 12

    Possessed

    Aired January 5, 2011 · Rape and child pornography

    A masked attack on a young woman reveals she was the child in a notorious series of abuse films, and the man acquitted of making them still walks free.

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