When a couple of parents think they've found a way to get the jurisdiction of their daughter's homicide transferred to Connecticut which is their home and has the death penalty this becomes a source of contention for the District Attorney. Connecticut has the death penalty and New York didn't at the time this episode was filmed. The ethics of it gets tossed around by Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, and Richard Brooks. Besides Moriarty is convinced that these grieving parents aren't above a little perjury in their claims.
This particular killer is played by James Rebhorn and he's in the normally non-violent producing occupation of accountant. He doesn't get much in the way of lines, but throughout the episode he carries a look of unredeemable sadness, like he was wishing it would all end. Something his very good attorney Allen Garfield is not about to see happen.
I'd check this one, the episodes before Jerry Orbach are not generally broadcast. As much as I loved Orbach as Lenny Briscoe, I always thought Paul Sorvino had a lot to recommend him as the lead cop in the series.
This particular killer is played by James Rebhorn and he's in the normally non-violent producing occupation of accountant. He doesn't get much in the way of lines, but throughout the episode he carries a look of unredeemable sadness, like he was wishing it would all end. Something his very good attorney Allen Garfield is not about to see happen.
I'd check this one, the episodes before Jerry Orbach are not generally broadcast. As much as I loved Orbach as Lenny Briscoe, I always thought Paul Sorvino had a lot to recommend him as the lead cop in the series.