McCoy tells the defendant that if he goes to trial that the DA's office will be charging him with manslaughter in the first degree with a bias crime charge enhancement, which could give him a longer prison sentence then the offer of second degree murder with the minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. A bias crime enhancement is an outdated term for what is now known as a hate crime enhancement, whenever a hate crime enhancement is added to a charge it adds considerably more prison time. For example normally manslaughter in the first degree carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. However with a bias crime enhancement to manslaughter one the minimum sentence goes up to 13 years in prison and the maximum sentence up to 33 years in prison, and this is just for a first time offender. If someone that has a previous violent felony conviction were to be convicted of manslaughter one with a bias crime enhancement they would be looking at a minimum sentence of 17 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 37 years in prison.
David Pittu has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 5.2 Coma (1994) - Walsh.
- Episode 11.13 Phobia (2001) - Donald Albers.
- Episode 14.4 Shrunk (2003) - Stephen Cane.
Stephen Berger has portrayed three different judges throughout the series:
- Episode 6.19 Slave (1996) - Judge Robin Ingles.
- Episode 11.13 Phobia (2001) - Judge David Weintraub.
- Episode 15.19 Sects (2005) - Judge Thomas Huce.