Innocence (Law & Order)

"Innocence"
Law & Order episode
Episode no. Season 20
Episode 16 (#449 overall)
Directed by Fred Berner
Written by Julie Martin
Richard Sweren
Production code
  1. 20016
Original air date March 15, 2010
Guest stars

Anna Chlumsky as Lisa Klein
Cheyenne Jackson as Jon Sorrentino
Amy Madigan as Emily Ryan
Robin Lord Taylor as Cedric Stuber
Zach Grenier as Judge Cormac Braden
Ernie Hudson as Frank

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"Innocence" is the sixteenth episode of the twentieth season of NBC's long-running legal drama Law & Order.

Contents

Plot

The detectives arrest a man who is tried and found guilty of killing a gay man as a hate crime. Believing the case found a guilty verdict too quickly Emily Ryan (Amy Madigan) and Lisa Klein (Anna Chlumsky) come in with a group called the Innocence Collective, determined to prove the suspect's innocence and change the guilty verdict. Cutter later discovers that his old professor and mentor Emily and her student assistant, Lisa may have gone too far to get testimony in her client's favor. Cutter's license to practice law is put into question which almost costs him his career.

Cast

Actor Role
Jeremy Sisto   Det. Cyrus Lupo
Anthony Anderson Det. Kevin Bernard
S. Epatha Merkerson Lt. Anita Van Buren
Linus Roache EADA Michael Cutter
Alana de la Garza ADA Connie Rubirosa
Sam Waterston DA Jack McCoy

Production

"Innocence" was directed by Fred Berner and written by Julie Martin and Richard Sweren.

Reception

In its original American broadcast on March 15, 2010, "Innocence" was watched by 6.90 million average households over the hour, among viewers aged between 18 and 49, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode had outperformed Castle on ABC, which drew only 6.57 million households by 0.32 million households. "Innocence" had 2.07 million viewers less than the episode of CSI: Miami that aired on CBS that night which drew 8.97 million viewers. It was the highest rated episode on NBC that night outdoing both Trauma and Chuck.[1]

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