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…

The cops’ best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a job, but the immunity deal he demands…

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,…

When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the…

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…

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…

The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the…

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

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…

The detectives investigate the gang rape of a college student during a fraternity Holloween party.

The conviction of a homeless man for murder is threatened on appeal based on the lack of a search warrant for his “home”, which was a lean-to in Central Park.

The renovation of a brownstone uncovers the remains of a boy who disappeared 31 years earlier, reviving a wrenching and long-suppressed memory in his childhood friend and neighbor.

Logan crosses the line in order to obtain a confession from the man suspected of murdering Max Greevey. Stone finds that his prosecution is placed in jeopardy because of Logan’s…