Double Jeopardy 12 Law & Order episodes
Cases complicated by the rule that no one can be tried twice for the same crime.
- Season 1 · Episode 15
The Torrents of Greed: Part 1
An assault on a small shopkeeper leads Stone to a chance at the head of the Masucci crime family.
- Season 3 · Episode 18
Animal Instinct
A university scientist is shot in her lab, and Stone’s case against her husband collapses when his supposed mistress turns out to be living a fantasy.
- Season 6 · Episode 1
Bitter Fruit
A 12-year-old girl is abducted on the way to her piano lesson, and after her accused killer is shot dead at his arraignment, suspicion turns to the shooter: the girl’s own mother.
- Season 6 · Episode 4
Jeopardy
A triple shooting at a computer magazine points to the editor’s wealthy brother, but a judge dismisses the case midtrial, and the reason turns out to be a bribe.
- Season 7 · Episode 2
I.D.
An unidentified woman is found shot in an office building elevator, and the prosecution is upended by a judge who turns on the DA’s office and by the question of who the victim really was.
- Season 10 · Episode 19
Surrender Dorothy
A teacher’s body in a car trunk leads to her father-in-law, a self-help author and therapist, and McCoy must decide whether her death was murder or a suicide he drove her to.
- Season 12 · Episode 3
For Love or Money
A paroled thief shot in a West Side parking lot turns out to have been paid to kill a wealthy electronics retailer, and the trail leads to the man’s widow and her college-age daughter.
- Season 13 · Episode 23
Couples
In a single day Briscoe and Green catch three murders and a kidnapping, led by the shooting of a woman who proves to be the wife a paroled man was convicted of killing ten years earlier.
- Season 14 · Episode 16
Can I Get a Witness?
A 19-year-old is gunned down in a park by a cyclist with a clouded eye, and the case against the accused collapses when one eyewitness backs out and the other is killed before cross-examination, sending McCoy after the cousin suspected of silencing them.
- Season 14 · Episode 24
C.O.D.
A delivery driver is shot after dropping off an empty envelope, and Lennie Briscoe’s last case uncovers two women who agreed to kill each other’s husbands.
- Season 15 · Episode 12
Mammon
A wealthy venture capitalist is beaten to death in his renovated townhouse, and suspicion falls on his young wife and the contractor who installed the alarm system and shared her bed.
- Season 17 · Episode 16
Murder Book
The publisher of an acquitted ex-ballplayer’s book on how he would have killed his wife is beaten and strangled, reopening McCoy’s old loss to the same man.