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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Blinded (2007)
Turf War without Standing
All in all, i enjoy this episode about as much as the others in this series, but what I just couldn't appreciate in this one was the turf war. These cops and lawyers always act as if their authority is absolute, but never seem to allow the federal system any access. They are shocked that the feds won't allow them an extradition hearing on state charges when they have a federal case on Picard, and somehow they're "pushing their agenda" which is to have him tried on the capital charge first, the most serious one which happens to have the possibility of the death penalty. All they talk about in this show is making people pay for what they've done, but there's no mention of the three girls he victimized when talking about who will try him, just these different agencies being territorial as if the NYPD is ever going to outrank the FBI when it comes to criminal charges.