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* ProperlyParanoid: A nineteen-year-old model carries around her birth certificate because she looks younger than her age and often gets asked to prove her age by police.

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* ProperlyParanoid: A nineteen-year-old model carries around her birth certificate because she looks younger than her age and often gets asked to prove her age by police.police.
* SmugSnake: Kevin Roumel, one of the early suspects, acts like the detectives can't do anything to him and refuses to give a DNA sample. When his father orders him to, and Munch confirms he can legally do that, he throws a tantrum. Exasperated, his father takes a few strands of his hair by force and hands them over to Munch.

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* AmoralAttorney: This is the episode that introduces Barry Moredock, a rare positive portrayal. He represents an alleged child pornographer simply because he believes that everyone has the right to a fair trial, and it turns out that he mostly takes cases such as these where he believes the defendant's rights are being violated.

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* AmoralAttorney: This is the episode that introduces Barry Moredock, Moredock (Alex's former law professor), a rare positive portrayal. He represents an alleged child pornographer simply because he believes that everyone has the right to a fair trial, and it turns out that he mostly takes cases such as these where he believes the defendant's rights are being violated.


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* DownerEnding: As Alex and Barry are leaving the courtroom after Tommy Hedges is found guilty of murdering Cherie Lathan, Barry compliments his former student for getting the bad guy without stomping on the Constitution, pointing out that "everybody won", to which Alex replies, "Not Cherie Lathan".
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* PoorMansPorn: Implied in a twisted variation. Detectives interview a pedophile who notes he was home watching {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} as an alibi.
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[This description was copied in violation of our Administrivia/{{Plagiarism}} policy. Please replace it with original writing.]

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[This description was copied An eight-year-old beauty queen's body is found stuffed in violation of our Administrivia/{{Plagiarism}} policy. Please replace it a suitcase on a Manhattan bus, leading Benson and Stabler to hunt for a pedophile with original writing.]a fetish for child pageants.
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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Creator/BrianKerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.

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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl [This description was on the beauty pageant circuit. One copied in violation of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Creator/BrianKerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since our Administrivia/{{Plagiarism}} policy. Please replace it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.
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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Creator/BrianKerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.

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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Creator/BrianKerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.defense.

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* AmoralAttorney: This is the episode that introduces Barry Moredock, a rare positive portrayal. He represents an alleged child pornographer simply because he believes that everyone has the right to a fair trial, and it turns out that he mostly takes cases such as these where he believes the defendant's rights are being violated.
* ContrivedCoincidence: When being asked to prosecute the company that produced the child porn story, Alex notes that they could be anywhere in the world, but luckily for the plot they happen to be located in New York City; otherwise the episode would have been over at twenty minutes.
* GracefulLoser: Barry Moredock graciously congratulates Alex when she wins the case, then cheerfully notes that he still plans on appealing.
* ProperlyParanoid: A nineteen-year-old model carries around her birth certificate because she looks younger than her age and often gets asked to prove her age by police.
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Written By Creator/Stephen Belber, Creator/LizFriedman and Creator/VanessaPlace

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Written By Creator/Stephen Belber, Creator/StephenBelber, Creator/LizFriedman and Creator/VanessaPlace

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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Brian Kerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.

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Written By Creator/Stephen Belber, Creator/LizFriedman and Creator/VanessaPlace

Directed By Creator/AlexZakrzewski

On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Brian Kerwin) (Creator/BrianKerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.
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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find the body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornographer (Brian Kerwin) is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via an alleged child porn story on his company's website. The material is found to fall outside the letter of child pornography laws since it consists of images of models that have been digitally altered to appear under age. The implications for freedom of expression prompt Cabot's former mentor to aid the defense.

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