Law & Order season 3

After photographer Julian Decker is found murdered in his studio, Logan and Cerreta discover that Decker's real business was prostitution and acting as a pimp for models who aren't getting the work they needed. Their investigation leads to Angela Brandt, one of Decker's models who found more money working for Decker in other ways, but they also discover that Decker was romantically involved with Angela's teenage daughter. Stone realizes that something strange is going on when the case gets weaker against Angela, but all of a sudden she wants to cut a deal.

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Guest starring : Alberta Watson, Murphy Guyer, Claire Danes, Maeve McGuire, John Rothman, David Bailey, Gina Torres as Laura Elkin, Yul Vazquez, Lauren Ambrose, Billy Van

After Marcus Tate, the respected leader of a controversial African-American rights movement, is assassinated at a rally, Logan and Cerreta attempt to get information on the crime but are stonewalled by many of Tate's followers, who aren't interested in talking to white police officers. Photographs lead them to Mitchell Kolbin, a white man who had followed Tate religiously but who seemed to lose some of his wonderment when Tate began an affair with his wife.

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Guest starring : Joe Morton, Michael Jace, Jephté Guillaume, Michael Genet, Kirk Taylor, and Eric Bogosian as Gary Lowenthal.

After Beth Milgram is found beaten to death in an alleyway after her going away party, Logan and Cerreta initially turn their suspicion to the girl's father after her fiancé, Tommy Beltran, claims that he had hit her after Beth told him they were engaged, but it isn't long before their primary suspect becomes Beltran himself. Stone has the unpleasant task of facing the renowned Cyrus Weaver, who is determined to prove that Tommy Beltran is not guilty of murdering Beth Milgram because he was a poor young man from a Mexican family who could not restrain his rage when his upper-class girlfriend broke up with him.

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Guest starring : Laurence Luckinbill, Luis Antonio Ramos, Luke Reilly, Richard Holmes, Chris Bauer, Suzanne Cryer, Mara Hobel, Sarah Litzsinger, Boris McGiver. Note: Derived from Bonnie Garland murder case.^{[citation needed]}

A teenager's fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.

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Guest starring : Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Norris, Robert Milli, Elizabeth Hubbard, Michael Lombard, Harriet Sansom Harris, Wendy Barrie-Wilson, Justine Miceli, John Ortiz

The discovery of a young woman's body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.

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Guest starring : Patti D'Arbanville, John Pankow, Bill Raymond, José Zúñiga, Lisa Vidal, Walter Bobbie, Leslie Lyles, Bill Fiore, Vincent Pastore, Glenn Taranto

Dr. Olivet accuses Alex Merritt, her gynecologist, of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.

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Guest starring : Paul Hecht, Felicity Huffman, Tracey Ellis, Howard Witt, Michele Pawk, Adam Lefevre, Mark Shannon, Ethan Phillips, Janet Ward

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

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Guest starring : Adam Arkin, Marissa Chibás, Ron Rifkin, Robert Hirschfeld, Jon Manfrellotti, Wai Ching Ho, Paul Schulze, Lou Martini Jr.

Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Colombian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.

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Guest starring : Rosanna DeSoto, Joe Lisi, Saundra Santiago, Mark Margolis, Shawn Elliott, Jaime Sánchez, Lonny Price, Lizan Mitchell, Carlos Sanz, Gary Perez, Catherine Gardner

Logan has trouble dealing with Lennie Briscoe, who has been brought in while Cerreta recovers from surgery during their investigation of the murder of Tommy Duff, a small-time hood. Their investigation leads them to a woman who claims Duff raped her, and when her attorney, an old friend of Stone's from law school, calls Olivet to the stand to testify in Mary Kostrinski's defense, Schiff forces Stone to use Olivet's recent rape (from the episode "Helpless") to discredit her testimony. Logan is upset to learn that Cerreta has accepted another position within the department and will not be returning; at the end of the episode, Logan has no choice but to accept Briscoe as his new partner.

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Cast : The first appearance of Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe, and the last appearance of Paul Sorvino as Detective Sergeant Phil Cerreta. Guest starring : Lisa Eichhorn, Gary Basaraba, Caroline Aaron, Alan North, Cara Duff-MacCormick, Peter McRobbie, Tony Lip

Engineer Phillip Marietta and tribal chief Gimju Nwaka become the chief suspects in the death of Kelani Amoda, a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.

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Guest starring : Roscoe Lee Browne, Andrew Robinson, Wendell Pierce, Keith Szarabajka, Talia Balsam, Seth Gilliam, Beatrice Winde, Afemo Omilami, Beverly Johnson, Paul Eckstein, Reggie Montgomery, Charles Malik Whitfield, Liz Larsen, Denise Burse and Kwaku Sintim-Misa. Note: This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Love and Loss".

When Janet Silver kidnaps her daughter from the mall, Logan and Briscoe are sent in to investigate and learn that she committed the crime with the assistance of a children's help organization after going to them with fears that the little girl's father was sexually abusing her.

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Guest starring : Barry Primus, Michael McGuire, Brian Markinson, Anna Holbrook, Joyce Van Patten, Matthew Sussman, Madeline Zima, Olga Merediz, Carol Woods

After Stone accepts a plea bargain from Steven Gregg the much younger and poorer lover of Barbara Spiegleman a wealthy older woman found murdered in her apartment, he begins to have doubts that he has sent the right man to prison, especially as he learns more about Kevin Doyle the attorney who handled the woman's estate.

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Guest starring : Mary Mara, Richard Cox, Darrell Larson, Alice Hirson, Thomas Hill, Ted Sorel, Donna Murphy, Floyd Vivino

The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his shoah survivor wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when evidence surfaces that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.

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Guest starring : Nehemiah Persoff, Reizl Bozyk, Chip Zien, Diane Venora, Danny Maseng, Bahni Turpin, Beryl Bernay, Paul Schulze

The investigation into the murder of Jennifer Gorham a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiancé and his psychiatrist.

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Guest starring : Lindsay Crouse, Fritz Weaver, Gail Strickland, Jenny O'Hara, Fred Weller, Robert Sedgwick. Note: This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 4 episode titled "ID".

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

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Guest starring : Mary Alice, Kelly Neal, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Douglas Turner Ward, Fatima Faloye, Frances Foster, Carl Cofield, Matt Malloy, Paul Schulze

Stone battles the Brooklyn D.A.'s office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of David Zifrin, a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.

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Guest starring : Dan Hedaya, Paul McCrane, Michael Badalucco, Leslie Ayvazian, Paul D'Amato, Amy Ryan, James Colby

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of Tracy Hagen a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

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Guest starring : Len Cariou, Boyd Gaines, George Coe, Michael Dolan, Julianna Margulies, Dick Latessa, Richard Hamilton, Joe Chrest, Barbara Blackburn, Mark Hildreth. Note: Based on the 1991 Tailhook scandal^[17]

The initial investigation into the death of Faye Walsh a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with Susan Boyd a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder. When the husband is acquitted, the investigation turns to the individual who provided evidence of the affair.

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Guest starring : Frances Fisher, Lawrence Pressman, Charles Brown, Allan Arbus, Peter Maloney, Mary Joy, Martina Deignan

While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic's medical database.

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Guest starring : Stephen Elliott, Dana Elcar, Paul Calderón, Stivi Paskoski, Beth Fowler, Harold Perrineau, John Dossett, Jim Fyfe, Lynne Marta, Jim Moody, James A. Baffico

When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client "not guilty due to cultural insanity" claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.

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Guest starring : Morgan Weisser, David Margulies, Richard E. Council, Alan King, Jorja Fox

The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.

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Guest starring : Charles Hallahan, Sam Rockwell, Robert Moresco, Dan Grimaldi. Note: This episode was later remade as the Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Samaritan".

Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of Kathleen McKenna a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.

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Cast : Last series regular appearances of Dann Florek as Captain Don Cragen, and Richard Brooks as Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette. Guest starring : Sofia Landon Geier, Peter Kass, Patrick Kerr, Meredith Scott Lynn, Camryn Manheim, Leon Russom