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Grand Juries 8 Law & Order episodes

Cases shaped by what happens behind the closed doors of the grand jury room.

  1. Season 3 · Episode 15

    Mother Love

    Aired February 24, 1993 · Homicide / mercy killing

    A former honor student turned crack addict is shot in her apartment, and the trail leads from her dealer back to her own family.

  2. Season 6 · Episode 2

    Rebels

    Aired September 27, 1995 · Murder

    An NYU student is stabbed to death in a biker bar, and the one witness the police can find says his online writing makes him a reporter who can keep his sources secret.

  3. Season 7 · Episode 11

    Menace

    Aired February 5, 1997 · Arson / murder of a witness

    A young woman goes over the side of a Brooklyn Bridge ramp while fleeing a man after a fender-bender, and her death turns out to be tied to a suspicious factory fire.

  4. Season 12 · Episode 5

    Possession

    Aired October 31, 2001 · Murder / manslaughter

    An eccentric rent-control tenant is stabbed outside her Madison Avenue penthouse, and suspicion moves from the janitor she helped to her feuding landlady, the landlady’s estranged brother and finally the building’s agent.

  5. Season 12 · Episode 6

    Formerly Famous

    Aired November 7, 2001 · Murder

    When a washed-up singer’s much younger wife is shot minutes after they leave his favorite pub, the detectives look at his manager, his grown sons and a custody deal that hid a secret about the couple’s baby.

  6. Season 18 · Episode 8

    Illegal

    Aired February 13, 2008 · Murder / shooting at a protest

    A legal immigrant is killed by gunfire as police break up an immigration rally, and McCoy’s pursuit of the auxiliary officer who fired puts his own record on trial.

  7. Season 19 · Episode 22

    The Drowned and the Saved

    Aired June 3, 2009 · Murder for hire / political corruption

    The murder of a charity executive with a secret S&M habit leads to the governor’s wife and a scheme to swap a Senate appointment for a prestigious job, just as McCoy’s election nears.

  8. Season 20 · Episode 14

    Boy on Fire

    Aired March 1, 2010 · Murder / gang rape

    The burning death of a charter-school student leads to boys from a struggling public high school whose principal, guarding her own record of grade tampering, vouches for their alibi.

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