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…

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…

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.

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.

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 finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.

While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic’s medical database.

The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician…

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.

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.

The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his…

After Stone accepts a plea bargain from the much younger and poorer lover of a wealthy older woman found murdered in her apartment, he begins to have doubts that he…

The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his wife in committing suicide doesn’t fully satisfy Stone when rumors surface that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.

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 absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.

A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police…

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.

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…

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

Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.

Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Columbian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.

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…

An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.

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

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

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.

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.

A teenager’s fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.

The discovery of a young woman’s body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.

The murder of a Wall Street legend begins a case involving an ailing union worker and a former governor and old friend of Schiff’s.

Cerreta and Logan investigate the accusation that a nun in charge of a shelter for teens molested a young addict.

The discovery of a dead baby leads to a case involving a slumlord who would not provide any heat and who defends her actions by blaming the rent laws.

The brutal murder of a Jewish jeweler appears to be a hate crime, but the investigation soon leads back to the man’s brother and his shady business deals.

When a Chinese-American honors student is killed, the investigation uncovers a racist mother who’s son was competing with the victim for the same scholarship.

A politician opposes the prosecution of his son’s murderer because it might mean revealing that his late son was gay.

An obsessive fan pleads temporary insanity when he is charged with attempting to murder the soap-opera actress who is the center of his life.

Stone faces an old rival in court as he tries to link a hit man and three murders to a sleazy lawyer and a powerful man behind bars.

An apparent mugging ends in the death of a wealthy woman but the case comes to hang on a silver pin that may have been in the victim’s possession.

Stone is determined to see that a teenage boy doesn’t get away with murder twice when the young man is brought to trial for the shooting death of one of…