Murder Trial Key Witness Killed in the Street | Law & Order

The DA's office discovers that a former prosecutor now working as a defense attorney has been getting damaging witnesses in his trials killed and that Rubirosa was unknowingly a co-conspirator in one of his cases.

Season 20, Episode 09, For the Defense
After a key witness for a murder trial is found dead outside her hotel room, Detectives Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (Anthony Anderson) become involved in a spiraling case that unravels into an intricate conspiracy, leaving additional witnesses' lives in danger and Rubirosa in the crossfire. Black market dealings, affairs and drug cartels intertwine to expose the risk of taking the stand as a witness when corrupt officials control the court.

Show Synopsis: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. From Emmy-winning creator Dick Wolf, with its groundbreaking "ripped-from-the-headlines" format, comes the highly-acclaimed, longest-running crime series in television history.

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[dfmrcv]

*Dead witness on the ground*
That *one* forensics guy: Ha-ha, pigeon.

[Misfit]

That poor pigeon was just living the pigeon life😭

[ThePierre]

Outstanding acting, that "lawyer" was chilling, worthy of Donnie Brassco.

[mrroboshadow]

nothing says "im innocent" than sending a lawyer famed for defending a drug cartel to "defend" the person who can implicate you

[seasonedveteran]

🦍 Harambe: '"So they SHOT you too, huh?"

🕊 Pigeon: "Uh-huh. One minute I'm flying my FedEx route, then ... 💥💥💥💥 .... I started falling .... I couldn't feel my wings.

[aaronburgin]

Spoiler alert:

The police arrest Rainey for Maggie’s murder and stash Paige in a safe house, where a hitman attempts to assassinate her. Bernard kills him, but the attempt scares Paige out of testifying. Connie realizes that the hotel was one she and Marcus Woll used to hide other witnesses. She, Cutter and Jack realize that Woll was the only one who could’ve passed the information along. They start to investigate other cases to see if Woll had done this before, and they learn that once in the DAs office, a defense witness that could’ve killed one of Will’s big cases disappeared before he was set to testify. They arrest him, but not before a judge dismisses the murder case against Rainey for insufficient evidence. They proceed against Woll, who reveals to Cutter that he had an intimate relationship with Connie while he worked in the DAs office. As Cutter investigates the other homicide, he learns that the wife of the dead witness spoke to someone from the DAs office telling her where her husband was the Eve before he went missing. That attorney wasn’t Woll, however, it was Connie. Connie decides to list herself as an unindicted co co-conspirator so she can testify against Woll, as her testimony is the only way they can establish that Woll was assisting in getting witnesses killed. When Woll takes the stand, Cutter cunningly gets him to declare that “he never killed anyone, ” opening the door for him to bring up Maggie’s death at the trial. Once cornered, Woll and his attorney say they’ll give up Rainey in exchange for a deal. Cutter, who taped the conversation, uses it to give Rainey a deal to put Woll behind bars.

[borrowedcrayon]

Why'd they have to put the victim and the pigeon in the same position😂

[Ciara]

Poor little pigeon.
Who's going to tell
his flock he's never
coming back.🐦😭

[jasonluong]

Plot twist: The pigeon was the intended victim.

[PreppyAnglican]

8:27 Little moments like this show how smart Lt. Van Buren really is; S. Epatha Merkerson is so good 😊

[PIXPromosMore]

The Doorman at the beginning (0:30) is legendary comedy writer Alan Zweibel (SNL, Garry Shandling and others)

[Ray_Shabaz]

Every single time when it gets juicy, somehow a lawyer is around the corner stopping everything

[andrewbrendan]

One can only imagine how terrified Paige Regan would be if she were a real person really in that situation. I hope this episode is not just entertaining, but a cautionary tale about being care about you get involved with.

[YolandaAnneBrown]

Jonathan Cake is deliciously wicked as the crooked attorney. And I was so happy to watch Van Buren having an appetite after going through chemo. ❤️❤️❤️

[leoargheavy]

3:35 I'm from Argentina ... and that makes me sad .. nowdays, 35.000 pesos are about 170 us dollars.

[mocassin]

key witness not under protection. I guess she wasn't that key

[classicgunstoday]

The DA in court looks an sounds like an 18 year old.

[michelleabad]

I miss Law & Order. Great writing & acting.

[NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Whole lot of foot traffic around that body. Guess director thought it would look cooler to leave bloody footprints everywhere.

[ovunusualgamer]

That poor *Sigh* who else died? I was too shooken up about that poor birdie