Juries 19 Law & Order episodes
Jury nullification, jury tampering, mistrials and the jurors who decide the case.
- Season 1 · Episode 18
The Secret Sharers
A dealer is gunned down in front of a crowd, and no one in the community is willing to say who did it.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
Conspiracy
A Black nationalist leader is gunned down after a Harlem rally, and the only suspect is a white man whose ex-wife was having an affair with the victim.
- Season 5 · Episode 10
House Counsel
The murder of a bribed juror leads McCoy to prosecute a mob boss’s defense lawyer, his friend since law school.
- Season 6 · Episode 9
Blood Libel
An art teacher at an elite public high school is strangled in her classroom after uncovering a teacher who sells grades, and an anti-Semitic message hidden in the yearbook points to a former class president.
- Season 6 · Episode 11
Corpus Delicti
A dead show horse leads detectives to a horse dealer who preys on wealthy widows, and McCoy tries to convict him of killing a woman whose body has never been found.
- Season 6 · Episode 13
Charm City
A chemical bomb on a downtown subway train kills 20 Black passengers, bringing Baltimore homicide detectives to New York and sending McCoy to try the case before a Westchester jury.
- Season 8 · Episode 5
Nullification
A botched armored car robbery leads to a suburban militia whose leader acts as his own lawyer and asks the jury to set the law aside.
- Season 10 · Episode 7
Patsy
A woman left in a coma after an apparent rape had long accused one man of killing her sister, and the DNA case against him begins to look like a setup.
- Season 11 · Episode 4
Standoff
When the leader of the Latin Lobos is knifed during a staged brawl at Rikers Island, McCoy charges the corrections officer who wanted him dead, and a jury has to weigh a hated victim against a sympathetic defendant.
- Season 11 · Episode 9
Hubris
Four people, including a six-year-old girl, are shot in a jewelry store, and the trail leads to a smooth con man who takes over his own defense and sets out to charm the jury.
- Season 13 · Episode 11
Chosen
The killing of a bookie who served wealthy Manhattan gamblers leads to his partner, whose lawyer turns a murder trial into a referendum on support for Israel.
- Season 14 · Episode 14
City Hall
A gunman kills a city councilman inside City Hall, but his real target was a water inspector, and the murder weapon surfaces through a secret federal search.
- Season 15 · Episode 1
Paradigm
When an Army reservist who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib is found smothered and posed like a crusader, the trail leads to the Iraqi-born sister of a former detainee, whose lawyer says she is a prisoner of war.
- Season 15 · Episode 11
Fixed
Fifteen years after he was locked up for abusing his family and causing his young daughter’s death, Jacob Lowenstein is run down a month into his parole, and the evidence points to the prison therapist who knew him best.
- Season 15 · Episode 18
Dining Out
A TV executive is strangled in a private park after a charity gala, and suspicion moves from the twins who run the charity to her husband and finally to the celebrity chef she was sleeping with.
- Season 15 · Episode 22
Sport of Kings
A Panamanian jockey who can’t get rides is shot dead outside a downtown bar, and his curiosity about a gifted colt leads to the horse’s owner, a company chief who bought it with his employees’ retirement money.
- 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.
- Season 19 · Episode 15
Bailout
The mistress of a disgraced investment-bank CEO dies while escaping a ransom kidnapping, and the evidence points to the devoted manager of a program for young offenders.
- Season 20 · Episode 15
Brilliant Disguise
A young woman who secretly worked as an escort is executed in a hotel room, and suspicion moves from a smitten lab technician to a charming graduate student whose fiancée will do anything he asks.
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- Juvenile Defendants
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- Perjury
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- Self-Representation
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