Law & Order

- Season 12

(2001)

A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer.

A murdered shoe-shine man turns out to be a veteran who was trying to return the Bronze Star he received during the Vietnam War.

A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.

A diamond broker's death may have happened because he was on the verge of exposing a powerful Swiss diamond concern's connection to "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone.

A pair of feuding siblings who share ownership of a building are suspects in the murder of a tenant who may have been keeping them from selling the building for millions of dollars.

Briscoe and Green suspect that a washed-up former Vegas lounge singer may be connected to his wife's murder. But they also discover that his wife had a history as a con artist.

A fingerprint analyst's error put an innocent man in prison. Detectives discover that this may not have been the only error she has made in favor of prosecutors.

A schoolteacher dies in a building fire. The fire is linked to a group of young radical environmentalists. McCoy tries to go after the man who influenced them.

A hip-hop star goes on trial for the murder of a nightclub patron who accused him of being a sellout.

The DA's office charges a racist who killed an African-American CEO over a taxicab with a hate crime. The defense responds by arguing that racism is a mental defect.

A priest is murdered in his confessional, but another priest was the actual target. However, the targeted priest refuses to cooperate with the investigation, claiming that his communication with the killer is privileged.

An insurance company employee is killed because he was on a committee that rejected coverage of an expensive but effective drug for a young girl suffering from leukemia.

Serena is asked as a lawyer to help resolve a hostage situation. But her actions threaten to get her disbarred because she didn't disclose to the captor that she works as a prosecutor and wasn't his personal counsel.

A former aide for a state senator disappears and later turns up dead. The investigation uncovers the aide's affair with a powerful state official and her being pregnant.

McCoy takes on a cyber investigating company after information it sells to a convicted rapist is used in the murder of his therapist.

A therapist is charged with murder after an 11-year-old girl dies during a "rebirthing" procedure.

Was a high school girl killed because she was going to report a sexual assault by two classmates, or because another classmate was afraid that she was going to "out" her?

The DA's office believes that an abused wife hired her brother-in-law to kill her husband. The defense claims that the woman suffers from battered wife syndrome, but was is it a case of self-defense or revenge?

An activist college student is killed for investigating a meat packing plant. McCoy later uncovers a connection between the plant and five E. coli deaths at a fast food chain.

A woman is drugged and falls to her death, and the evidence suggests that her ex-boyfriend and her current husband's ex-wife may have conspired to kill her.

An investigation into the murder of a private investigator leads to the discovery of a Honduran immigrant illegally playing in a New York youth baseball league.

A sleazy criminal defense attorney is accused of killing his wife and using knowledge he obtained as a lawyer to frame a client. During the trial, he tries to further manipulate the system to avoid a conviction.

A doctor's murder helps detectives uncover an organized crime attempt to corner the prescription oxycodone market.

A Desert Storm veteran who fancies himself a soldier on the War on Terror is charged with murdering an Arab man. The case becomes more complicated when evidence after the fact suggests that the victim may have indeed been a terrorist.