When the team consults for the NYPD on the defense of a police officer accused of excessive force in the shooting of an unarmed man, the social politics surrounding the…

Briscoe and Green believe a 10-year-old is responsible for a child’s death, and McCoy wants her isolated to stop any future fatalities.

A shootout between a motorist and the police leads to the discovery of a gruesome Russian mob killing — and a traumatized boy who was an eyewitness to the murder.

After Briscoe, Curtis, McCoy, and Kincaid witness the execution of a criminal they brought to justice, their unique reactions to the event culminate in personal tragedies for each of them.

After an infant is found dead in his crib, it’s determined he was poisoned, and all evidence points to the child’s au pair.

The investigation into multiple homicides at a clothing store leads to the arrest of a schizophrenic who presents McCoy with a formidable opponent when he decides to represent himself.

A woman is shot while sleeping, and the investigation leads the police to a boy whose crack-addicted mother has entrusted him to a dealer’s care.

A down-on-his-luck ad executive becomes the prime suspect when his wife and son are killed, and his daughter wounded on a night that he claims was spent drinking.

A mother claiming that her baby was kidnapped while she was at confession retraces her steps and actions with Curtis, which raises legal questions later when her attorney introduces a…

Briscoe and Curtis try to solve a co-ed’s murder after a graphic description appears online, while McCoy finds himself up against a lawyer who is reluctant to reveal elements of…

When the detectives solve a series of murders committed by a holdup team in ski masks, McCoy must determine whether a young woman found with them is an unwilling hostage,…

The investigation into a bar room brawl fatality reveals a detective’s decades-old vendetta against a petty criminal turned murderer who was falsely accused of one murder after evading conviction on…

When a man is found murdered shortly after depositing almost $400,000 in his savings account, the investigation into the source of funds reveals that the victim ran an identity theft…

McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to harassment as he attempts to connect the man with a new…

The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution’s chances of conviction are hampered by a “dream team” of defense attorneys, Gorton’s personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of…

Briscoe and Curtis’s investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross has to play detective too as the DA’s office…

It’s a race against time as the detectives go on the hunt for a sniper whose victims are shot in broad daylight.

The death of a stockbroker leads the detectives to his girlfriend whose mother is a cosmetics mogul who has a long standing friendship with Branch, and will stop at nothing…

The bludgeoning of a luxury sports car dealer leads the detectives to a mentally challenged man and his girlfriend who is extremely attractive and whose expensive tastes leads her to…

A dead teenager’s father and a vigilante priest are suspects in the killing of a drug dealer.

An American Muslim becomes the prime suspect in a double murder after an academic challenges his religious beliefs.

Green and Cassady follow the leads when a young boy is found murdered to a suspected serial pedophile/murderer.

The shooting of a local businessman is linked to a killing in Iraq, and McCoy and Rubirosa refuse to allow the killer to plead out.

When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client “”not guilty due to cultural insanity”” claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.

The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband’s affair with a coworker may point to a possible…

Stone battles the Brooklyn DA’s office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.

The investigation into the murder of a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiance and his psychiatrist.

The apparent abduction of a little girl by her natural mother becomes complicated by charges of sexual molestation.

Logan gets a new partner and Stone faces an old friend from law school as they investigate a woman’s claim of self-defense in the shooting death of a small time…

Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.

A priest-turned-lawyer uses race and class as the basis for his defense of a young Mexican man who murdered his wealthy girlfriend after she broke up with him.

The assassination of an African-American leader leads to the arrest of a man whose ex-wife was suspected of having an affair with the victim.

When a sleazy photographer is murdered, his models appear to be the most likely suspects.

After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the…

Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.

The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.

An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.

Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted…

While investigating a woman’s claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.

A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he’s violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y…