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Law & Order Confession (1990–2010) Online

Law & Order Confession (1990–2010) Online
1990–2010 Paul Sorvino Chris Noth Dann Florek Fred Gerber
Original Title :
Confession
Genre :
TV Episode / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Year :
1990–2010
Directror :
Fred Gerber
Cast :
Paul Sorvino,Chris Noth,Dann Florek
Writer :
Dick Wolf,Michael Duggan
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
1h
Rating :
8.0/10

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Law & Order Confession (1990–2010) Online

The DA's office has a major grand jury investigation underway on corruption and theft in the construction industry. The night before Det. Sgt. Max Greevy is to testify, he is gunned down at home in his driveway. Needless to say, Logan is upset and partnered with Det. Phil Cerreta, looks for what they and the DA's office believe must have been a leak from a member of the grand jury. When it turns out the jury foreman may have told his son of Greevy's upcoming testimony, Logan tracks him down and gets him to confess at gunpoint. There seems to be little doubt that the man is the one who killed Greevy but Logan's zealousness in getting the confession may result in the case being thrown out of court.
Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Paul Sorvino Paul Sorvino - Phil Cerreta
Chris Noth Chris Noth - Mike Logan
Dann Florek Dann Florek - Donald Cragen
Michael Moriarty Michael Moriarty - Ben Stone
Richard Brooks Richard Brooks - Paul Robinette
Steven Hill Steven Hill - Adam Schiff
Vyto Ruginis Vyto Ruginis - Dan Magadan Jr.
Daniel von Bargen Daniel von Bargen - Lambrusco
Val Avery Val Avery - Dan Magadan Sr.
Carolyn McCormick Carolyn McCormick - Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
Tanya Berezin Tanya Berezin - Judge Rosalyn Lenz
Sam Gray Sam Gray - Judge Manuel Leon
Nicolas Coster Nicolas Coster - Morgan Stern
Karen Shallo Karen Shallo - Marie Greevey
Peter Crombie Peter Crombie - Howie Neffer

Based on the Oreste Fulminante case. In 1982, the 11-year-old stepdaughter of Oreste Fulminante was murdered in Arizona. Later, Fulminante was incarcerated for an unrelated miscellaneous charge. While in prison, Fulminante met Anthony Sarivola, his cellmate who was also a confidential informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sarivola offered Fulminante protection from "tough treatment" in prison in exchange for a confession to the murder of Fulminante's stepdaughter. Fulminante argued that the confession was invalid because it was coerced and he would have said anything to protect his own life. The confession was allowed in the first trial, but considered inadmissible in the appeal because of the confession was allegedly coerced.

Paul Sorvino joins the cast as Phil Cerreta in this episode.

Karen Shallo, the actress who played Marie Greevey, later appeared in Season 6, Episode 10, "Remand," as Mrs. Santoro, a witness to a 30-year-old crime.

In most states the charge of murder in the first degree is reserved for premeditated murder, but in New York state it works a little differently. In New York premeditated murder is usually charged as aggravated murder in the second degree. Murder in the first degree is reserved for: intentionally causing the death of a police or peace officer while performing their duties. Intentionally causing the death of a firefighter, paramedic, EMT, physician or nurse responding to an emergency. Intentionally causing the death of a witness to a crime in order to prevent them from giving a statement to the police or testifying before a judge or jury. Murder for profit. Causing the death (with or without intent) of a person during the commission of another serious felony such as kidnapping in the first degree, arson in the first degree and rape in the first degree (also known as felony murder). Finally, intentionally causing the death of another person while serving a sentence for a previous conviction of murder in the second degree.

First appearance of Carolyn McCormick as clinical/forensic psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Olivet. She will be a long time recurring character appearing in 87 episodes. She also appears in five episodes of Seaduse nimel: Seksuaalkuritegude uurimisüksus (1999) and one episode each of Seaduse nimel: Kohtusüsteem (2005) and Seaduse nimel: Kuritegelikud mõtted (2001).

Sgt. Max Greevey (George Dzundza), Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy), and ADA Alexandra Borgia (Annie Parisse) are the only regular characters who were killed off. All the others either resigned, were fired or were transferred from their respective positions. Retired ADA Ben Stone's funeral was featured in Law & Order SVU in season 19.


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Mardin

Mardin

Season two of Law and Order saw the first departure of one of the main characters. The series was originally set to film in Los Angeles, but when creator Dick Wolf won his fight to shoot it in New York, actor George Dzundza did not want to relocate his family there, and this led to Dzundza leaving the show. Thus Dzunda's character, Max Greevey, is murdered at the beginning of the first episode of the season, "Confession", an episode that deals much more with the main characters' personal lives than is typical. For example, this is the only episode in which we actually see Greevey's wife.

It also deals with the effect that the murder has on Greevey's partner, Mike Logan. This episode is the first appearance of Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, a clinical psychiatrist who performs consultation work for the 27th Police Precinct and District Attorney's office in Manhattan. In this case, she is working as a grief counselor and helping Logan deal with his partner's death. Her's is a recurring role that makes guest appearances until 1997. This episode is also the first appearance of Logan's new partner, Phil Cerrata, played by veteran actor Paul Sorvino.

Logan does track down the person responsible for Greevey's killing, even though he is not supposed to be on the case and the episode title has to do with the way Logan gets his "confession". Good acting by Chris Noth as Logan here, because in that alley, alone with the perp, gun drawn, you can tell he wants an excuse to extract much more than a confession.
Lanadrta

Lanadrta

Man, this could be a splendid series when it was at its best, as it is here. As usual, the first half has to do with corruption and murder in the construction industry. In the course of the police investigation, Chris Noth's partner is executed and after the full-dress funeral, Noth tracks down the killer in a dark alley and forces him to confess by holding a pistol to his head and threatening to pull the trigger. Later, in the interrogation room, the murderer confesses in detail and provides corroborating evidence, if that's the word for telling the cops where the murder weapon is hidden. There's no doubt that he did it.

BUT -- Noth has blown the deal by coercing the original confession in the alley and so all subsequent evidence is inadmissible, maybe. The second half, again, as usual, deals with the prosecution's attempts to put a cop killer away despite the difficulties Noth has introduced into the case.

What I liked about the series is the way it captures the flavor of the streets of New York. (This is not sunny, smoggy Los Angeles, full of empty streets.) The city sizzles in the summer, is wet and chilly in the winter, and smells of diesel exhaust all year round.

Then, too, there are the police officers -- mostly wisecracking detached guys with their eyes on collars and careers. They're almost pitiless in their pursuit of bad guys. The program avoids showing any police brutality which, in my experience as a kid across the river, was taken for granted. And they get huffy if words like "corruption" or "on the pad" are used. If you want greater verisimilitude, see "Serpico." But all of this is done at a zippy pace. No time is given over to personal lives. There are jokes about Noth's girl friends and rueful references to Jerry Orbach's alcoholic past but nothing much is made of them. No dramatic musical score to hype things up. The legal stuff is explained in such a way that a layman can understand it either from the dialog or from the context in which it appears.

They did a nice job in the first few years, and this is a good example of how well it works.
Kulasius

Kulasius

The second season of Law And Order began with a cast change as we George Dzundza in silhouette shot down in the driveway of his home. That case becomes everyone's top priority including the assigned detective Paul Sorvino who takes Dzundza's place as Chris Noth's partner.

This ties into a case from the previous season of labor racketeering that Noth and Dzundza were on. In his younger days with the series Noth could be quite a hot head. When he arrests the perpetrator Vyto Ruginis he dances over the line and pushes the case and the confession into jeopardy.

The rest of the program divides into two parts. First is Detective Mike Logan trying to come to grips with his grief as prosecution consultant Carolyn McCormick counsels him.

The second is the struggle between Michael Moriarty and the defense attorney over the possibly coerced confession.

Noth gives one of his best performances from the series. It's also a textbook example about how police can err in judgment if they are too close to the situation in an investigation.