The detectives are skeptical when a former street activist turned shock jock with a history of staging phony muggings to gain publicity for his causes appears to be the subject…

Briscoe and Green are assigned to a case involving an eccentric comedian who may have killed his young son by dangling him off a ledge.

The husband of a woman whose partially decomposed body is found floating in the Hudson River becomes the prime suspect in her murder until the prosecutors uncover a connection between…

The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who’s in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.

The murder of an admissions director of a private school leads the detectives to investigate a pair of angry parents whose children were denied admission, but then set their sights…

The execution style shooting of a city contractor leads Detectives Briscoe and Green to suspect a professional hitman. They first focus upon possible enemies of the victim, but end up…

A struggling actress is murdered in an apparent robbery-homicide where a video tape, made by a couple touring the city sold to a local news station, shows three suspects loading…

Jamie Ross returns to defend a student accused in a mass school slaying.

The investigation into the shooting of a newspaper columnist leads to a murder case from two decades earlier and involves a suspect who at that time had been a juvenile.

When a girl’s parents frantically search for her, Briscoe and Green see that the girl’s belongings were packed up in her apartment. They learn that the girl had been seeing…

The murder of a white teen-ager in Harlem seems like an open-and-shut case until two patrol officers are implicated in the crime.

Investigating the murder of a woman in a rent-controlled apartment, the detectives discover that she was engaged in a long-running battle with her landlord and had been blocking the potentially…

A former Black Panther, accused of murdering a Caucasian police officer, questions Green’s integrity amidst a politically charged trial.

Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoherent mob boss.

Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high…

The death of a show horse leads to a trial involving insurance fraud, a sting operation and a wealthy woman’s disappearance.

McCoy uses a charge of “”larceny by extortion”” against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.

A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions against both the shooter and the doctor who harvested her organs…

The cops’ best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a job, but the immunity deal he demands…

The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife’s first husband died in a inadequately investigated accident, and that they may have been having an affair…

A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim’s link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.

A “green-card” bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this…

The absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.

Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.

The brutal murder of a Jewish jeweler appears to be a hate crime, but the investigation soon leads back to the man’s brother and his shady business deals.

When a Chinese-American honors student is killed, the investigation uncovers a racist mother who’s son was competing with the victim for the same scholarship.