Illegal Searches 5 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Evidence gathered without a proper warrant, and the cases that collapse because of it.
- Season 3 · Episode 18
Guilt
A serial child molester slips toward freedom when his young accuser stops cooperating, and Cabot risks her career with an illegal search to stop him.
- Season 11 · Episode 23
Wannabe
The rookie officer who catches a serial rapist in Central Park is really a teenager posing as a cop, which puts the whole case at risk.
- Season 13 · Episode 6
True Believers
A piano student raped at gunpoint watches her case unravel when a civil-rights defense lawyer attacks the police work and her own credibility.
- Season 20 · Episode 4
Revenge
A string of home-invasion rapes by a fake pizza deliveryman leads the squad into an online community of men who blame women for their loneliness.
- Season 27 · Episode 21
Monster
A suppressed search frees a man caught with a kidnapped boy in his trunk, and SVU must rebuild the case before he takes another child.