Even though the episode had the usual plot twists that L&O is so good at, it lacked originality. It was so obviously an O.J. knockoff that most everything was expected. I'm not that practiced at law, but it seems if there was jury tampering, in this case a bribe to one of the original jurors and it could be proven (which was admitted to), then the original acquittal would have been thrown out and the defendant not only retried for his wife's original murder, but the new murder as well.
Regardless of this, it was a decent episode even if you knew what the outcome was going to be. They made the defendant to unlikeable not to be found guilty. I am still a big L&O fan.moreless
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After publisher Serena Darby is found murdered in her apartment, suspicion turns to J.P. Lange, a former professional baseball player acquitted of his wife's murder who had written a book hypothesising how he would have committed the murder. Green and Cassady follow the trail of evidence from Lange to Gerald Stockwell, a former ghostwriter on the book, but Stockwell tries to clear himself by offering McCoy and Rubirosa proof that one of the jurors in Lange's trial was paid off to force an acquittal.moreless
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Det. Nina Cassady
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Lt. Anita Van Buren
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ADD NOTES- International Air Dates: Australia: Monday, November 8, 2007 on Network 10 Finland: Friday, January 29, 2010 on YLE TV2 Edit
- Special billing was given to Bobby Cannavale (and Special Guest Star) in this episode. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- (Last lines.) Arthur Branch: It seems like you're taking this victory a tad personally. Jack McCoy: Damn right I am! Connie Rubirosa: So what do you think? Did the jury convict Lange for the right murder? Jack McCoy: That we'll probably never know. Arthur Branch: Until one of them writes a book about it. Edit
- Arthur Branch: Bribery, blackmail and a patsy. This guy Lange is a tabloid's dream. Edit
- Arthur Branch: It doesn't take tampering to get the wrong verdict out of a jury. Edit
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ADD ALLUSIONS- This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the O.J. Simpson trial. Simpson was arrested and charged with the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend of hers, Ronald Goldman. Although the criminal court found him not guilty in 1995, a civil trial found him liable for the wrongful deaths of both Goldman and Brown in 1998. Simpson attempted to release the book If I Did It, a fictionalized first-person account of the murders had he actually done them, in 2006, but it was recalled before ever being published. Even the full name of the primary antagonist (James Paul Lange) hearkens back to O.J. Simpson (O.J. stands for Orenthal James). In 2007, Goldman's family purchased the rights to rename and publish the book after a bankruptcy court ruled that Simpson's daughter perpetrated a fraud when she created her shell corporation. Edit
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