Juvenile Defendants 23 Law & Order episodes
Young defendants and the question of whether to try them as adults.
- Season 1 · Episode 17
Mushrooms
Gunfire through an apartment door kills a baby, and the investigation leads from a teenage shooter to the man who sent him.
- Season 2 · Episode 15
Trust
A boy’s death in a deserted warehouse is called a gun accident, but a sealed juvenile record suggests otherwise.
- Season 2 · Episode 17
Sisters of Mercy
A 16-year-old runaway arrested after a shooting accuses a nun at her rehab shelter of molesting her.
- Season 4 · Episode 9
Born Bad
A 13-year-old foster child is kicked to death on a Manhattan street, and the 14-year-old charged with killing him mounts a defense claiming he was genetically born to be violent.
- Season 4 · Episode 15
Kids
A stray bullet kills a promising 14-year-old student, and the shooter turns out to be the teenage son of a retired detective who is an old friend of Briscoe’s.
- Season 5 · Episode 14
Performance
A videotape that seems to show a girl’s rape and murder leads detectives to a high school clique that keeps score of its sexual conquests.
- Season 5 · Episode 16
Wannabe
The shooting of a corporate turnaround expert leads to a subway track walker whose son was expelled from an elite private school.
- Season 6 · Episode 6
Paranoia
A Mount Amsterdam College student is stabbed to death in her dorm room, and suspicion shifts from an online stalker to her violinist roommate, whose sealed juvenile record becomes McCoy’s only way into court.
- Season 6 · Episode 16
Savior
After a woman and her young son are shot dead in their beds and her teenage daughter is wounded, suspicion falls on the father, a heavy drinker who cannot account for the night.
- Season 6 · Episode 19
Slave
A woman is killed in her bed by a stray bullet fired from a nearby rooftop, and the shooter turns out to be a 13-year-old boy working for a crack dealer.
- Season 9 · Episode 10
Hate
A 16-year-old girl is beaten to death by the neo-Nazi friends she wanted to impress, and McCoy charges the white supremacist whose speeches inspired them with murder.
- Season 9 · Episode 18
Juvenile
The shooting of a star newspaper columnist leads back to the 1978 death of a Broadway actress, a mobster wrongly imprisoned for it, and a killer who was a juvenile at the time.
- Season 9 · Episode 22
Admissions
A math graduate student is found strangled behind her university library, and suspicion moves from a paroled rapist to her celebrated adviser before settling on two fellow students.
- Season 10 · Episode 2
Killerz
A seven-year-old boy is killed near a highway construction site, and the case leads to a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old girl, setting McCoy against Dr. Olivet over what to do with the younger child.
- Season 11 · Episode 12
Teenage Wasteland
A Chinese restaurant owner is beaten to death on a delivery to an empty apartment, and the case against five Queens teenagers forces DA Nora Lewin to weigh the death penalty for an 18-year-old.
- Season 11 · Episode 22
School Daze
A masked student opens fire in a New York City high school cafeteria and escapes, and the hunt for the shooter runs through several troubled teenagers before landing on one.
- Season 12 · Episode 17
Girl Most Likely
The killing of a principled private-school student points first to the athletes she reported, then to a secret that her best friend was desperate to keep.
- Season 12 · Episode 20
Dazzled
When a much younger second wife plunges from a rooftop, the suspects include her husband, her former boyfriend and the husband’s embittered ex-wife, but the answer lies inside the family.
- Season 13 · Episode 2
Shangri-La
A new teacher is found stabbed in a high school closet, and the student caught on the security tape, who is sleeping with her drama teacher, turns out to be an adult who has spent years passing as a teenager.
- Season 17 · Episode 2
Avatar
Photos of a murdered mother posted on a teen social networking site lead to a mentally ill man who abducts her daughter, then insists the girl recruited him online to kill her mother.
- Season 17 · Episode 7
In Vino Veritas
A fading sitcom actor arrested for drunk driving in bloodstained clothes rants against Jews, and the trail leads to a murdered Jewish producer and the actor’s 14-year-old son.
- 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 7
Boy Gone Astray
An interior designer who secretly supplies marijuana is gunned down at her door, the shooters turn out to be young teenagers trained as killers by a Mexican cartel, and their lawyer is a former Manhattan prosecutor.