Spousal Privilege 7 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Husbands and wives who cannot be made to testify against each other, and prosecutors working around it.
- Season 2 · Episode 3
Closure: Part 2
A new rape matching Kenneth Cleary’s method reunites the detectives with his first known victim, who has been following him herself.
- Season 3 · Episode 20
Greed
A rich widow is raped and left for dead in her townhouse, and a planted frame-up against a locksmith hides a pair of Canadian con artists who married their victims.
- Season 4 · Episode 2
Deception
A kindergartner’s drawing leads the squad to suspect her actress mother of abusing her teenage stepson, and the case turns into a murder investigation when the boy’s father is killed.
- Season 7 · Episode 8
Starved
A speed-dating sting catches a controlling surgeon suspected of serial rape, and the girlfriend who could convict him becomes the subject of a right-to-die fight.
- Season 14 · Episode 12
Criminal Hatred
A man who targets closeted married men leaves one dead, and Barba tests the hate crime law against a gay defendant who is shielded by his own marriage.
- Season 20 · Episode 1
Man Up
A 15-year-old boy refuses to name the man who raped him after a family hunting trip, and the squad comes to suspect his own father.
- Season 20 · Episode 20
The Good Girl
A pregnant 13-year-old names her drama teacher as the father, but after her stepfather kills him, SVU learns the stepfather legally married her in Missouri.