History Recap / LawAndOrderS6E12Trophy

* AmoralAttorney: Diana Hawthorne. She framed Andrew Dillard for serial murder, just so that Jack [=McCoy=] could get a promotion for convicting him.

On the stand, [=McCoy=] insists that he didn't know what Hawthorne had done, that he would not have condoned it had he known, and that her actions were not standard practice. He says that he's not paid to win; his only goal is to fight for justice and the truth. Fox asks if [=McCoy=] convicted Hank Chappel of murder ((see: [[Recap/LawAndOrderS5E17ActOfGod Act of God (episode)]]), and [=McCoy=] has to admit that he did, even though Chappel turned out to be innocent. Fox reiterates that [=McCoy=] convicted an innocent man without Hawthorne's help. [=McCoy=] insists that he didn't find any evidence that Chappel was anything other than the perpetrator.

* AmoralAttorney: Diana Hawthorne. She framed Andrew Dillard for serial murder, just so that Jack McCoy could get a promotion for convicting him.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Subverted with Andrew Dillard. He's a racist bastard, but he's not the actual killer.
* SerialKiller: Andrew Dillard, a racist nutjob, is imprisoned for murdering several young black boys. It turns out the actual killer is [[KnightTemplar Simon Brooks]], a black security guard and religious fanatic. He considered the boys to be sinners, for doing things like shoplifting or looking at porn, and subsequently killed them.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVilain: Subverted with Andrew Dillard. He's a racist bastard, but he's not the actual killer.

[=McCoy=] tells Kincaid that she could have won the case and didn't need to take the deal. Kincaid jokes that she thought taking the deal was what [=McCoy=] wanted. She chuckles, and they walk off.

[=McCoy=] asks if the cops verified the story. Curtis says that Brooks knew details of the murders only the killer would know, he had trophies from the kills, and he was ID'd in lineups by witnesses. [=McCoy=] wonders why the killings stopped when Dillard was arrested. Briscoe says that, when Dillard was charged, Brooks told his mother what had happened, and she put him on anti-psychosis medications. This stopped him from killing anyone until recently, when she died and he went off his medicine. [=McCoy=] is disturbed by his conviction of an innocent man.

Dillard tells [=McCoy=] that the last five years of his life were hellish. [=McCoy=] apologizes. Dillard says that he spent all his time hiding in his cell, because he thought the black inmates would have attacked him for killing black people. [=McCoy=] says that the evidence pointed at Dillard, but Dillard's lawyer says that they're claiming that [=McCoy=] knew Dillard was innocent but prosecuted him anyway. He shows a statement taken by a detective a few months before the trial; a witness saw one of the murder victims walking into Central Park with a black man. When she saw Brooks on the news, she recognized him and called the lawyer. The defense never got a copy of the statement, even though all potentially exculpatory evidence has to be turned over to the defense. [=McCoy=] says he never saw the statement before. Dillard smiles and says that his lawyer specializes in wrongful prosectuion, and the lawyer says that the statement is the basis for a $50 million dollar lawsuit.

Judge Walter Schreiber denies the motion by Hawthorne and her lawyer, Gerald Fox, to dismiss the charges. Hawthorne complies that she was just following [=McCoy's=] orders.

Kincaid asks if Hawthorne swore an oath to uphold the law, and Hawthorne says that she was just following how [=McCoy=] implemented that same oath. She maintains that she never concealed evidence or suborn perjury. Fox objects when Kincaid begins to berate her over her actions. Kincaid says that Hawthorne got a lucrative job as a defense lawyer after the case. Hawthorne protests that the job came a year later, and she didn't plan for it; she left the district attorney's office because she didn't feel comfortable working with [=McCoy=] after they broke up. Kincaid then wonders if Hawthorne was tempted to do what she did to help out [=McCoy=], who was her boss and lover.

Kincaid talks to Detective Monfredo, the detective who talked to a witness who saw one of the victims with Brooks. Monfredo remembers the interview perfectly. He says that he gave the statement to the District Attorney but the witness vanished; he thinks the witness might have had some issue preventing her from testifying. He says that he personally handed it to Hawthorne, [=McCoy's=] assistant.

->"I killed those boys. I killed all those boys. You just gave Dillard the credit."\\

[=McCoy=] tells Kincaid that she could have won the case and didn't need to take the deal. Kincaid jokes that she thought taking the deal was what [=McCoy=] wanted. She chuckles, and they walk off.

Late that night, Kincaid says that the file has everything but the detective's statement. [=McCoy=] looks doomed, saying that it doesn't matter whether the statement is there or not; Dillard will destroy him either way. Kincaid says she's being deposed, and wonders why. [=McCoy=] says that Dillard will want to show a pattern. He asks her what she'll say if Dillard's lawyer asks if [=McCoy=] has ever concealed exculpatory evidence. She can't answer. Eventually she cites a case in which [=McCoy=] withheld a witness statement. [=McCoy=] says that, based on a technicality, he didn't have to turn over the statement; Kincaid says that the judge disagreed. [=McCoy=] again asks what she'll say if Dillard's lawyer asks if [=McCoy=] ever concealed exculpatory evidence.