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* InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: A season 1 episode has the detectives investigating the Russian mob, one suspect talks to them with his daughter as an interpreter.
--> '''Suspect''': American police are a joke, no one is afraid of them.
--> '''Daughter''': He says America is a great country.
--> '''Suspect''': American police are a joke, no one is afraid of them.
--> '''Daughter''': He says America is a great country.
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* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Det. Green in his first two episodes, "Gunshow" and "Killerz". Granted, he was very gentle to the suspects he was interrogating; however, in both examples he established an atmosphere of coercion that, for some reason, rendered the confessions inadmissible.
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* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Det. Green in his first two episodes, "Gunshow" and "Killerz". Granted, he was very gentle to the suspects he was interrogating; however, in both examples he established an atmosphere of coercion that, for some reason, that rendered the confessions inadmissible.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: At least once a year starting with season 4, there's a rich prick [[KarmaHoudini who just walks away from it all]]; because of the cash they can afford to spend on lawyers buying them reasonable doubt.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: At least once a year starting with season 4, there's a rich (and GUILTY) prick [[KarmaHoudini who just walks away from it all]]; because of the cash they can afford to spend on lawyers buying them reasonable doubt.
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* CrimeOfPassion: Many episodes derive some or all of the drama from the question of whether the crime was intentional or a "crime of passion". A few examples that stand out from the pack:
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS4E9BornBad "Born Bad"]]: The killer is a fifteen-year-old boy with a history of violent overreactions to relatively minor provocations. When an attempted shoplifting goes wrong, he explodes and beats one of his accomplices, a younger boy, to death.
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS3E17ConductUnbecoming "Conduct Unbecoming"]]: A female Navy officer is mortally injured during a party. The culprit turns out to be her commanding officer, who was arguing with her, lost his temper and hit her hard enough to fracture her skull and cause lethal internal bleeding.
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS7E4Survivor "Survivor"]]: The murder-of-the-week was committed by a woman who was pursuing some property, a collection of rare coins, that her father lost during the Holocaust. The woman is extremely messed up mentally and fixated on getting the coins back, so when the man that she believes has the coins refuses to show them to her, she smashes his head in.
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS4E9BornBad "Born Bad"]]: The killer is a fifteen-year-old boy with a history of violent overreactions to relatively minor provocations. When an attempted shoplifting goes wrong, he explodes and beats one of his accomplices, a younger boy, to death.
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS3E17ConductUnbecoming "Conduct Unbecoming"]]: A female Navy officer is mortally injured during a party. The culprit turns out to be her commanding officer, who was arguing with her, lost his temper and hit her hard enough to fracture her skull and cause lethal internal bleeding.
** [[Recap/LawAndOrderS7E4Survivor "Survivor"]]: The murder-of-the-week was committed by a woman who was pursuing some property, a collection of rare coins, that her father lost during the Holocaust. The woman is extremely messed up mentally and fixated on getting the coins back, so when the man that she believes has the coins refuses to show them to her, she smashes his head in.
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* ObviouslyFakeSignature: In one episode, a woman kills her husband after she learns he faked her signature to clean out an account she'd set up for her efforts to start a business. When the detectives see the signatures on the checks, they note that it doesn't come close to matching the wife's and that the bank should have known. Realizing she didn't empty the account herself, it's what tipped them to her motive.
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* AcquittedTooLate: Victor Cruz (no relation to the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball wide receiver]]) in "By Perjury", where he was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. The man who ''did'' commit the murder, Cruz's [[spoiler: corporate attorney who represented him in a class-action lawsuit against an airline, perjured himself on the stand to implicate him. So, Cutter pulls off an extremely compelling argument where he tries the attorney for the murder of Victor Cruz by perjury, since there wasn't any evidence against the attorney for the actual murder of which Cruz was convicted]].
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* AcquittedTooLate: Victor Cruz (no relation to the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball wide receiver]]) in "By Perjury", "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS19E9ByPerjury By Perjury]]", where he was sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. The man who ''did'' commit the murder, Cruz's [[spoiler: corporate attorney who represented him in a class-action lawsuit against an airline, perjured himself on the stand to implicate him. So, Cutter pulls off an extremely compelling argument where he tries the attorney for the murder of Victor Cruz by perjury, since there wasn't any evidence against the attorney for the actual murder of which Cruz was convicted]].
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* TheAllegedExpert: Poor Lupo. He comes off as this a lot because he's studying to become a lawyer, and thus knows a lot more about law than other detectives; however, he makes poor (but logical) judgment calls and mistakes while investigating cases, which tears apart his credibility. Especially in "By Perjury", where Lupo [[spoiler: read into the law well enough to legally, but unethically, get crucial evidence against a client that would've otherwise taken weeks to obtain. However, a ''pro se'' client uses Lupo's standing as a law student to convince the judge that Lupo violated the spirit of the law, even if he technically didn't violate its letter, and thus gets the crucial evidence and all charges against the attorney dropped]].
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* TheAllegedExpert: Poor Lupo. He comes off as this a lot because he's studying to become a lawyer, and thus knows a lot more about law than other detectives; however, he makes poor (but logical) judgment calls and mistakes while investigating cases, which tears apart his credibility. Especially in "By Perjury", "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS19E9ByPerjury By Perjury]]", where Lupo [[spoiler: read into the law well enough to legally, but unethically, get crucial evidence against a client that would've otherwise taken weeks to obtain. However, a ''pro se'' client uses Lupo's standing as a law student to convince the judge that Lupo violated the spirit of the law, even if he technically didn't violate its letter, and thus gets the crucial evidence and all charges against the attorney dropped]].
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** the most egregious example is "By Perjury". Bascially, the detectives and prosecutors suspect that an AmoralAttorney killed a judge in a case he was involved in two years before. the thing is, one of the attorney's clients was convicted and subsequently executed for the crime ''six months ago''. The murder case should have still been on appeal.
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** the most egregious example is "By Perjury"."[[Recap/LawAndOrderS19E9ByPerjury By Perjury]]". Bascially, the detectives and prosecutors suspect that an AmoralAttorney killed a judge in a case he was involved in two years before. the thing is, one of the attorney's clients was convicted and subsequently executed for the crime ''six months ago''. The murder case should have still been on appeal.
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**In "Reality Bites," the episode starts with Jim Gaffigan's character arriving home and finding his wife murdered. He reacts with shock and surprise. There's no one else with him to perform for and it makes absolutely no sense that he would pretend to have this reaction if he killed her without anyone there to see it, but the rest of the episode portrays him as the likely killer.
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** Website/CollegeHumor lampshades this, facetiously asserting that the "cancerous" Law & Order franchise feeds off of depressed old people sitting in front of their TV sets, waiting for endings like these.
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** Website/CollegeHumor [[Creator/{{Dropout}} [=CollegeHumor=]]] lampshades this, facetiously asserting that the "cancerous" Law & Order franchise feeds off of depressed old people sitting in front of their TV sets, waiting for endings like these.
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* MurderByProxy: In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E4Shrunk Shrunk]]," a psychiatrist whose patient is a famous and deeply troubled Broadway composer is sleeping with another patient who threatens to sue him. His solution is to arrange for her to attend a party and make sure the composer will also be there. [[BatmanGambit He knows]] that she will go straight for the most famous person in the room and that her personality will send him into a violent rage. It works, and the prosecutors can't charge him with anything.
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* NotBloodNotFamily: In "Caviar Emptor" the AssholeVictim was the patriarch of a wealthy family who wouldn't allow his daughter to adopt a baby from China. His exact words were: "I won't allow someone else's bastard to become my grandchild."
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Several of the murder victims are outlived by one or both parents.
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* DepthOfField: A shallow depth-of-field is frequently used when filming in crowded areas full of non-acting people. This way, the characters stand in sharp contrast and nobody sues the show.
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* BittersweetEnding: Many cases that end with a victory for the cast still tend to veer into this, usually because of the guilty being a TragicVillain, or because the circumstances that led to the court case in the first place ([[AlwaysMurder usually via the victim(s) involved]]) lead to a depressing outcome. There's rarely an unambiguously open-and-shut case with a completely positive result unless it's one of the very few LighterAndSofter episodes that ''are not'' as tragic as normal.
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* BittersweetEnding: Many cases that end with a victory for the cast still tend to veer into this, usually because of the guilty being a TragicVillain, or because the circumstances that led to the court case in the first place ([[AlwaysMurder usually via the victim(s) involved]]) lead to a depressing outcome. There's rarely an unambiguously open-and-shut case OpenAndShutCase with a completely positive result unless it's one of the very few LighterAndSofter episodes that ''are not'' as tragic as normal.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: There's plenty of cases where it seems like all the suspects in a crime have been lined up and figuring out [=whodunnit=] is either wrapping up nicely through the episode or meeting a bit of a brick wall because ''nothing'' lines up. Then a curve ball is thrown into the mix in many ways, whether it be a suspicious bail or defense attorney intervention, the actions of a questionable judge, a new suspect having popped up and thrown everything into chaos, or even one of the pre-existing suspects suddenly doing something unexpected (like dying) that shakes up the case hard; the result tends to be that the rest of the episode swiftly focuses on the new mystery-within-a-mystery, though sometimes the plot switch only tangentially is involved with the initial plot.
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* {{Juggalo}}: The episode "Steel-eyed Death" focuses - poorly - on this subculture.
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* AscendedExtra: Jerry Orbach made a cameo as a defense attorney on a season 2 episode before he started his best-known role as Det. Lennie Briscoe the following season.
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* LethalNegligence: The episode "Profiteer", the victim of the week was an executive at a body-armor company that sent a shipment of defective body armor to soldiers in Iraq. After securing a confession from the shooter, the DA's office decides to go after the company for negligent homicide in the death of the shooter's friend, who got stuck with one of the defective vests.
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* SaltAndPepper: Seasons 1-3 had prosecutors Ben Stone and Paul Robinette. Every single season from the tenth onward had detectives who fit this trope.
** Lampshaded when Briscoe and Green go to arrest a major record producer, and Van Buren comments on how much the white supremacist will [[SarcasmMode love]] being arrested by a black man and a Jew.
** Lampshaded in the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS18E4Bottomless Bottomless]]".
---> '''Green''': So we’re looking for a black guy and a white guy together in New York City.
---> '''Lupo''': Well, there’s us.
** Lampshaded when Briscoe and Green go to arrest a major record producer, and Van Buren comments on how much the white supremacist will [[SarcasmMode love]] being arrested by a black man and a Jew.
** Lampshaded in the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS18E4Bottomless Bottomless]]".
---> '''Green''': So we’re looking for a black guy and a white guy together in New York City.
---> '''Lupo''': Well, there’s us.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: At least once a year starting with season 4, there's a rich prick [[KarmaHoudini: who just walks away]] from it all; because of the cash they can afford to spend on lawyers buying them reasonable doubt.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: At least once a year starting with season 4, there's a rich prick [[KarmaHoudini: [[KarmaHoudini who just walks away]] away from it all; all]]; because of the cash they can afford to spend on lawyers buying them reasonable doubt.
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** Also most rich defendants. See ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney below.
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* PowerWalk: Toward the end of the opening theme song, the senior detective/sergeant, the junior detective, the EADA, and the ADA are all shown walking in some sort of hallway in the courtroom. It started off with a stroll in the earlier seasons before eventually becoming a walk.
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* TeamPowerWalk: Toward the end of the opening theme song, the senior detective/sergeant, the junior detective, the EADA, and the ADA are all shown walking in some sort of hallway in the courtroom. It started off with a stroll in the earlier seasons before eventually becoming a walk.
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* BilingualBonus: Every cop duo in the franchise has at least one of the members (in almost every case, the junior detectives) knowing Spanish semi-fluently. Det. Curtis (obviously), Det. Green, and Det. Bernard all use this to their advantage.
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* BilingualBonus: Every cop duo in the franchise has at least one of the members (in almost every case, the junior detectives) knowing Spanish semi-fluently. Det. Curtis (obviously), Det. Green, and Det. Bernard all use this to their advantage. One exception to this rule is any team with Det. Logan in it. Logan was usually his duo's point man on Spanish, but he admitted he was just doing the best he could with "seventh grade Spanish."
