Disability 8 Law & Order episodes
Defendants and victims with physical or mental disabilities.
- Season 3 · Episode 22
Benevolence
A young deaf woman is murdered, and the suspects include a possessive former boyfriend and the mentor who expected her to stay.
- Season 5 · Episode 6
Competence
Lt. Van Buren kills an unarmed, mentally disabled 14-year-old during an attempted ATM robbery, and the question of who had a gun follows the case into court.
- Season 5 · Episode 19
Cruel and Unusual
The death of an autistic teenager at the precinct leads to a clinic director whose aversion therapy crossed into abuse.
- Season 8 · Episode 20
Burden
The death of a 12-year-old quadriplegic boy puts his strained family under suspicion until the trail leads to his doctor, who defends the killing as an act of mercy.
- Season 8 · Episode 22
Damaged
A schoolyard shootout that wounds a teacher exposes three popular boys who had sex with a mentally disabled classmate, while Briscoe’s daughter Cathy testifies against the dealer she supplied.
- Season 11 · Episode 1
Endurance
A 12-year-old boy with a severe developmental disorder dies after someone sets a fire in his family’s building, and the case against his devoted, worn-out mother tests how hard McCoy is willing to push.
- Season 19 · Episode 2
Challenged
The killing of an engineer in a park known for drug dealing leads to a group home, a hidden witness with an intellectual disability, and a family that gave that witness up as a toddler 44 years earlier.
- Season 19 · Episode 4
Falling
A crane collapse that kills a passerby exposes a bribed inspector, then leads to the near drowning of the dead man’s wife and a fight over a controversial procedure to keep a disabled girl small.