Legal Ethics 36 Law & Order episodes
Prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges who cross ethical lines, and the hard calls inside the DA’s office.
- Season 2 · Episode 13
Severance
A professional hit in a parking garage turns out to have been aimed at someone the police didn’t know was there.
- Season 3 · Episode 12
Right to Counsel
A widow’s much younger boyfriend pleads guilty to her murder, but a detail in his confession sends Robinette after the lawyer who sent him his defense attorney.
- Season 4 · Episode 14
Censure
Threats against a wealthy couple’s young daughter lead to a respected appellate judge, and the case exposes Kincaid’s own past affair with him.
- Season 4 · Episode 22
Old Friends
A baby food executive’s death on a busy street is revealed as a mob hit, and Stone’s case depends on a terrified witness.
- Season 6 · Episode 10
Remand
An arsonist looking for a deal claims a notorious 30-year-old rape and stabbing was the work of a mob collector, setting off a retrial of the man Schiff convicted in 1965.
- 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 12
Trophy
Two new murders of Black boys lead to a confession that exposes a wrongful conviction McCoy won five years earlier, and Kincaid ends up prosecuting the colleague who hid the evidence.
- 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 7 · Episode 12
Barter
A co-op treasurer is shot in her building’s garage, apparently mistaken for a neighbor, and the killings lead back to a lender who holds life insurance on his borrowers.
- Season 7 · Episode 18
Mad Dog
When a teenager is raped and smothered weeks after the serial rapist Lewis Darnell wins parole, McCoy becomes convinced Darnell did it and uses every legal tool to get him off the street.
- Season 7 · Episode 19
Double Down
An armed robber caught after a liquor store shooting that killed an off-duty cop offers to reveal where a kidnapped car-service driver is held, if the DA’s office signs his plea deal.
- Season 8 · Episode 4
Harvest
A young mother shot during a random street encounter dies on the operating table, and the case widens from the gunman to the transplant surgeon who took her organs.
- Season 8 · Episode 8
Shadow
A bail bondsman’s murder exposes a lawyer selling fixed cases, and a secret sham prosecution meant to find his inside man leads to one of Jamie Ross’s colleagues.
- Season 8 · Episode 11
Under the Influence
A speeding car kills an elderly man and a father and his young son on an East Harlem street, and the trail leads to a wealthy executive who had been drinking heavily on a flight home from Rio.
- Season 8 · Episode 16
Divorce
A hospital marriage counselor who evaluates Catholic annulments is stabbed in her office, and suspicion falls on an anxious ex-wife fighting her husband’s annulment while their divorce lawyers keep feuding.
- Season 10 · Episode 5
Justice
The murder of a lawyer working on a death-row appeal suggests the wrong man was convicted, and McCoy finds Jamie Ross on the other side of the case.
- Season 11 · Episode 17
Ego
The murder of a young state Attorney General’s investigator leads to her former lover and supervisor, a rising prosecutor who quietly kept the search for her pointed at Albany.
- Season 11 · Episode 19
Whiplash
An undocumented day laborer collapses and dies a day after a staged car accident, and the insurance scam that put him in the car leads from a moving-company boss to a chiropractor and a personal-injury law firm.
- Season 12 · Episode 13
DR 1-102
Southerlyn talks a double murderer into freeing his hostage by letting him think she is there as his lawyer, and the move wins a plea but puts her law license on trial.
- Season 12 · Episode 21
Foul Play
A retired detective turned private eye is shot with his own gun in an empty Washington Heights apartment, and the case leads into a youth baseball league fielding an overage star.
- Season 13 · Episode 10
Mother's Day
A prep-school girl’s hit-and-run death leads to the driver, a young man stabbed to death by his own mother, whose niece defends her by arguing she acted to protect others.
- Season 13 · Episode 14
Star Crossed
The beating death of a luxury car manager leads to a dishwasher with limited intellect and the fashion student he steals for, and McCoy suspects the confession he accepted was a lie.
- Season 14 · Episode 1
Bodies
A teenager’s murder leads to a cab driver who boasts of many more victims, and when his Legal Aid lawyer refuses to reveal where the bodies are, McCoy puts the lawyer on trial.
- Season 14 · Episode 7
Floater
A woman pulled from the Hudson turns out to be a family court clerk, and her husband looks guilty until the prosecutors find a divorce lawyer paying to get his cases before a favored judge.
- 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 16 · Episode 1
Red Ball
A five-year-old girl vanishes with her mother’s car, and the ex-convict arrested for taking her uses the child as a bargaining chip, offering to reveal where she is if prosecutors set him free.
- Season 16 · Episode 20
Kingmaker
An undercover narcotics detective is executed after a newspaper column reveals she is a cop, and the leak traces back to a congressman’s combative chief of staff.
- Season 16 · Episode 22
Invaders
Two home invaders armed with counterfeit DEA badges wipe out the family of the man who made the badges, and the hunt for them costs ADA Alexandra Borgia her life.
- Season 18 · Episode 7
Quit Claim
A hit-and-run that kills a visiting mother and daughter uncovers a scheme to cheat struggling homeowners out of their houses, and a title closer who keeps slipping out of the prosecutors’ reach.
- Season 19 · Episode 7
Zero
A woman whose family has given up electricity, cars and paper goods is killed with a shovel in a community garden, and the family car she quietly lent out ties her death to a police shooting in New Jersey.
- Season 19 · Episode 12
Illegitimate
After a debt-ridden police sergeant dies in a hostage standoff, a body hidden in his spare apartment leads to a failed memorabilia theft and a businessman convinced that he is John F. Kennedy’s secret son.
- Season 19 · Episode 20
Exchange
The stabbing deaths of two British graduate students lead to a city accountant with bipolar disorder who confesses, but Rubirosa suspects her brother let her illness spiral for his own gain.
- Season 19 · Episode 21
Skate or Die
A triple murder at a homeless camp mimics a serial killer’s signature, and the case against the real culprits depends on a schizophrenic street skater who turns out to be the serial killer himself.
- Season 20 · Episode 5
Dignity
A doctor who performs third-trimester abortions is killed during a church service, and the protester who shot him claims he was defending one particular viable fetus.
- Season 20 · Episode 9
For the Defense
The murder of a prosecution witness outside her Manhattan hotel exposes a mobbed-up car exporter and his lawyer, former ADA Marcus Woll, and Rubirosa must confront her own past with Woll to bring him to trial.
- Season 20 · Episode 16
Innocence
An anti-gay murder conviction is challenged by Cutter’s former law professor, whose clinic’s tactics come under attack before she turns the fight on Cutter’s own law license.