In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Air date: 1993-09-15
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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 and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
Writer: René Balcer
Air date: 1993-09-29
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1993-10-06
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
Writer: Gordon Rayfield
Air date: 1993-10-13
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
Writer: Walon Green
Air date: 1993-10-20
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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 declares that the death occurred from natural causes.
Air date: 1993-10-27
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1993-11-03
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1993-11-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1993-11-16
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Morgan Gendel
Air date: 1993-12-01
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1994-01-05
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Walon Green
Air date: 1994-01-12
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
Writer: René Balcer
Air date: 1994-01-19
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1994-02-02
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1994-02-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
Air date: 1994-03-02
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
Writer: René Balcer
Air date: 1994-03-09
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1994-03-30
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1994-04-13
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
Air date: 1994-05-04
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: René Balcer
Air date: 1994-05-18
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
Air date: 1994-05-25
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: 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.
