Amy Hohn has played four different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 5.7 Precious (1994) - Assistant M.E. Manning.
- Episode 6.3 Savages (1995) - Assistant M.E. Manning.
- Episode 7.16 Turnaround (1997) - Canton.
- Episode 10.14 Entitled (2000) - Delia Woodruff.
- Episode 15.4 Coming Down Hard (2004) - Laura Dixon.
- Episode 19.9 By Perjury (2009) - Laura Dixon.
McCoy states that 'without the death penalty there would,be more Ellie Nesler's'. Ellie Nesler was a mother who, in 1990, shot and killed (in court) the man accused of sexually molesting her seven year old son (and several other children) at a Summer camp, when she discovered he had a previous conviction for the same crime but was only given probation. Nesler eventually pleaded guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter in a plea-bargain, serving three and a half years in prison. She died in 2008 aged 56.
This episode appears to be based on New York's controversial capital punishment law.
One of the characters, Judge Albert Parsons, shares his name with one of the Haymarket Trial defendants who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.