History Recap / LawAndOrderS11E19Whiplash

* BittersweetEnding: Petrie and Sanders are both convicted of Santiago's death and their insurance fraud. Plus, Dr. Raleigh is given a lighter sentence for his role in the fraud and death. Sadly, however, Santiago's death was in vain, as their insurance payouts ended up null and void; the families of the other victims also get nothing.

* BittersweetEnding: Petrie and Sanders are both convicted of Santiago's murder and were to be charged with the murder of the witness' husband when and if they're ever released. Plus, Dr. Raleigh is given a lighter sentence for his role in the murder. Sadly, however, Santiago's death was in vain, as his insurance payouts ended up null and void.

The detectives investigate the death of Hector Santiago, an undocumented worker. It's discovered that his injuries were caused in a car crash with two other illegal workers; all were involved in a scam to stage car accidents for the insurance money. Their employer recruits his laborers to stage the crashes, then refers them to a pair of lawyers named Petrie and Sanders - who are charged with homicide. The jury is sympathetic to the defendants, who continue to deny they knew about the insurance fraud. But [=McCoy=] calls a witness whose husband died in another crash as part of the scam. Petrie and Sanders were the ones who told her the accident was staged; they threatened her that she would be caught and deported if she tried to drop the claim. Both defendants are found guilty, and when they're eventually released from jail, the [=DAs=] plan to have them sent straight back by charging them with the murder of the witness' husband too. However, all the insurance payouts are now void and Santiago's family won't receive any compensation - he has died for nothing.

The detectives investigate the death of Hector Santiago, an undocumented worker. It's discovered that his injuries were caused in a car crash with two other illegal workers; all were involved in a scam to stage car accidents for the insurance money. Their employer recruits his laborers to stage the crashes, then refers them to a pair of lawyers named Petrie and Sanders. They are charged with homicide. The jury is sympathetic to the defendants, who continue to deny they knew about the insurance fraud. But [=McCoy=] calls a witness whose husband died in another crash as part of the scam. Petrie and Sanders were the ones who told her the accident was staged; they threatened her that she would be caught and deported if she tried to drop the claim. Both defendants are found guilty, and when they're eventually released from jail, the [=DAs=] plan to have them sent straight back by charging them with the murder of the witness' husband too. However, all the insurance payouts are now void and Santiago's family won't receive any compensation - he has died for nothing.

The detectives investigate the death of Hector Santiago, an undocumented worker found dead from a ruptured aorta. It's discovered that his injuries were caused in a car crash with two other illegal workers; all were involved in a scam to stage car accidents for the insurance money. They worked for a moving company whose owner would recruit his laborers to stage the crashes, then refer them to a Dr. Raleigh and a pair of personal injury lawyers named Petrie and Sanders. Lewin gets Petrie and Sanders disqualified from representing Raleigh (their client) and then has [=McCoy=] and Abbie cut a deal with him to testify against them. Petrie and Sanders are charged with Santiago's murder.

The jury is sympathetic to the defendants, whose lawyer portrays them as heroes fighting for the poor and people of color. They continue to deny they knew about the insurance fraud. [=McCoy=] calls a witness whose husband died in another crash as part of the scam. Petrie and Sanders were the ones who told her the accident was staged; they pressured her to go ahead with the claim by making her fear that she'd be prosecuted and deported if she didn't comply. Both defendants are found guilty, and when they're eventually released from jail, the [=DAs=] plan to have them sent straight back by charging them with the murder of the witness' husband too. However, all the insurance payouts are now void and Santiago's family won't receive any compensation - he has died for nothing.

The jury is sympathetic to the defendants, whose lawyer portrays them as heroes fighting for the poor and people of color. They continue to deny they knew about the insurance fraud. [=McCoy=] calls a witness whose husband died in another crash as part of the scam. Petrie and Sanders were the ones who told her the accident was staged; they pressured her to go ahead with the claim by making her fear that she'd be prosecuted and deported if she didn't comply. Both defendants are found guilty, and when they're eventually released from jail, the [=DAs=] plan to have them sent straight back by charging them with the murder of the witness's husband too. However, all the insurance payouts are now void and Santiago's family won't receive any compensation - he has died for nothing.

* DownerEnding

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Lewin wants to do this because of how callously the defendants treated the lives of vulnerable people.