Self-Representation 10 Law & Order episodes
Defendants who fire their lawyers and argue their own cases in court.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
American Dream
Remains found on Roosevelt Island contradict the testimony that sent a Wall Street swindler to prison for murder years earlier, and he uses the discovery to win a new trial, representing himself against Stone.
- Season 6 · Episode 21
Pro Se
Three people are stabbed to death in a clothing store, and the schizophrenic suspect, a law school graduate, insists on defending himself.
- 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 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 12 · Episode 22
Attorney Client
A defense attorney’s wife is shot in his car, and the hunt for a vengeful client gives way to evidence that the lawyer staged the killing himself.
- Season 13 · Episode 1
American Jihad
When two professors are gunned down at home, a taped telemarketing call points detectives to a 19-year-old convert to Islam, who fires his lawyer, then takes over his own defense and turns the courtroom into a platform.
- Season 15 · Episode 24
Locomotion
A rush-hour commuter train slams into an SUV parked on the tracks, killing 12, and the man who left it there says he meant to kill only himself, setting up an insanity defense he later throws out.
- Season 16 · Episode 9
Criminal Law
A gunman working through the witness list from a nine-year-old office massacre puts McCoy in danger just as the convicted killer wins a new trial.
- Season 18 · Episode 6
Political Animal
Three men are shot dead in a Manhattan apartment, and a trail that first leads to a closeted state assemblyman ends with a celebrated political fundraiser who is living under a borrowed name.
- Season 18 · Episode 11
Betrayal
When a psychiatrist who treats troubled teenagers is shot dead in his office, the evidence leads to his wife, who was his patient at 15, and she takes over her own defense to put his abuse on trial.