Season Four
Season Four
Sweeps
A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show, and the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
REAL CASE:
Jenny Jones talk show shooting
This is one of a couple cases in which the fictional case actually came before the real case.
Volunteers
A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.
Discord
A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
REAL CASE:
Mike Tyson
Profile
Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending an admitted racist charged with several random murders.
Black Tie
It looks like a coverup when the police receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man may have been murdered by his wife, and that wife and her attorney refuse to allow an autopsy after a physician declares his died of natural causes.
REAL CASE:
Claus von Bulow/Sunny von Bulow
Pride and Joy
A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.
Apocrypha
Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader.
REAL CASE:
Branch Davidians/Waco; Heaven's Gate (occurred after the episode); '93 World Trade Center bombing
American Dream
A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
Born Bad
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 chromosome.
The Pursuit of Happiness
A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.
Golden Years
An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.
Snatched
A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
Breeder
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.
Censure
A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.
REAL CASE:
Sol Wachtler case (Chief Justice of NYS)
Kids
A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
Big Bang
A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
REAL CASE:
Unabomber
Mayhem
During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.
REAL CASE:
Lorena Bobbit and Son of Sam
Wager
Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.
REAL CASE:
Michael Jordan's father's murder
Sanctuary
A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in harlemclaims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
REAL CASE:
Brooklyn Crown Heights riots and Rodney King riots
Nurture
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 only for the child's own good.
Doubles
An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
REAL CASE:
Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan
Old Friends
A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.
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