History Recap / LawAndOrderS11E9Hubris

* JuryAndWitnessTampering: Morriston seduced one of the jurors to prevent a conviction.

* AFoolForAClient: Richard Morriston opts to represent himself. It works, because an AmoralAttorney might be OK with suborning perjury, but would draw the line at seducing the jury foreperson. Hopefully.

A jewelry store manager goes to the store and finds the scene of a massacre: the owners, employee Gail Churchill and her six-year-old daughter Ellie have all been killed execution-style. It becomes clear that Gail was the primary target. Briscoe and Green discover that her boyfriend, a realtor named Mark Landry, is actually convicted conman Richard Morriston. Gail discovered that a valuable necklace he gave her was registered to his ex-girlfriend Beth Fazekas. She then ran a background check, revealing that he has a police record and that Beth disappeared in mysterious circumstances.

A jewelry store manager goes to the store and finds the scene of a massacre: the owners, employee Gail Churchill and her six-year-old daughter Ellie have all been killed execution-style. It becomes clear that Gail was the primary target. Briscoe and Green discover that her boyfriend, a realtor named Mark Landry, is actually convicted conman Richard Morriston. He gave her a valuable necklace, but when she tried to register it, she discovered it had a previous owner - his ex-girlfriend Beth Fazekas. Gail ran a background check on him and found out about his criminal record and the fact that Beth disappeared in mysterious circumsttances.

* TheCasanova: Morriston endlessly charms a string of women including Gail, Gibbons, and his [=PA=]. He's also had a considerable number of past girlfriends that he used in his various schemes.

A jewelry store manager goes to the store and finds the scene of a massacre: the owners, employee Gail Churchill and her six-year-old daughter Ellie have all been killed execution-style. It becomes clear that Gail was the primary target. Briscoe and Green discover that her boyfriend, a realtor named Mark Landry, is actually convicted conman Richard Morriston. When he gave Gail a valuable necklace, she tried to register it, and discovered it had a previous owner. She ran a background check on him, which uncovered his criminal record and the fact that a past girlfriend (the necklace's original owner) disappeared years ago.

Morriston is arrested when missing security tapes from the store are found in his apartment, showing him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths. But the defense gets the footage excluded as evidence. Morriston was supposedly showing a client around an apartment at the time of the murder, but he missed the appointment when Gail was unexpectedly late. The detectives find the gun and stolen jewels hidden in the apartment building. Against the judge's advice, Morriston decides to represent himself.

Morriston uses his charm and good looks to manipulate the jury, especially the forewoman Carol Gibbons. [=McCoy=] fails to persuade the judge to recuse Gibbons from the jury, or to prevent Morriston from calling his [=PA=] as a witness to give him a false alibi. The jury hangs and Morriston goes free. But subsequently, Gibbons requests a meeting with [=McCoy=] and Carmichael. She confesses that Morriston asked her out during the trial, and they began dating. She used her influence to push the jury to acquit, but then he broke up with her the following day. She now believes he is guilty.

Morriston uses his charm and good looks to manipulate the jury, especially the forewoman Carol Gibbons. [=McCoy=] fails to persuade the judge to recuse Gibbons from the jury, or to prevent Morriston from calling his [=PA=] as a witness to give him a false alibi. The jury hangs and Morriston goes free. But subsequently, Gibbons requests a meeting with [=McCoy=] and Carmichael. She confesses that Morriston asked her out during the trial, and they began dating. She used her influence to push the jury to acquit, but then Morriston broke up with her the following day. She now believes he is guilty.

[=McCoy=] agrees to request a hearing with the judge so that Gibbons can testify under oath. The [=DA=]s still don't hold much hope of convicting him since she is not a reliable witness. But before anything else can happen, Briscoe and Green are called to Gibbons' home. Morriston broke in and tried to strangle her, so she killed him in self-defense with a pair of shears. Her story checks out, so she won't be arrested or charged.

A jewelry store manager goes to the store and finds the scene of a massacre: the owners, employee Gail Churchill and her daughter Ellie killed execution-style. The killer is caught by a security camera dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths. But even with this evidence, the robber uses his charm and good looks to manipulate the jury forewoman so that he gets a hung jury. The episode ends with him dead at the hands of the forewoman in question after he tries to strangle

* AFoolForAClient: RichardMorrison opts to represent himself. It works, because an AmoralAttorney might be OK with suborning perjury, but would draw the line at seducing the jury foreperson. Hopefully.

At a jewelry store, four people are killed execution-style jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. He is caught by a security camera dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths. But even with this evidence, the robber uses his charm and good looks to manipulate a juror so that he gets a hung jury. The episode ends with him dead at the hands of the juror in question.

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The killer is handsome and does not hesitate to use his charm to get away with murder figuratively and literally.
* WouldHurtAChild: One of the four people killed on the jewelry store robbery is a little girl.