Seaduse nimel Open Season (1990–2010) Online

If all the prosecutors in the world were like Jack McCoy and the defense attorneys like Danielle Melnick the world and the legal system would be a thing of wonder. Open Season pits the two of them again as respected adversaries as Tovah Feldshuh defends a white supremacist client played by Garrett Dillahunt with an intensity that will chill you.

When a noted defense attorney who just got off a cop shooter is shot down after the trial, suspicion falls on the cop's family and associates. But later on Jerry Ohrbach and Jesse Martin zero in on a white supremacist group that has made a point of killing liberal judges and defense attorneys.

This man is a terrorist make no mistake about it and the authorities don't treat him like any other prisoner. But that offends Feldshuh's ACLU trained soul. She breaks restrictions in her communications with him and in turn Dillahunt uses her to innocently communicate information that enables another hit on a judge in another state.

This is a very special prisoner says Sam Waterston and Feldshuh has innocently been drawn into his world just doing her job as a passionate advocate. What's great about this episode is that it takes absolutely no sides. Both Waterston and Feldshuh have well established characters from Law and Order and both perform within the parameters of those characters.

As Waterston says about Feldshuh, the Bar Association ought to name an award for her.

A defense attorney managed to get his client acquitted at trial much to audience disapproval. The defendant (Curtiss Cook) is a black guy who shot a police officer, leaving him unable to walk again. The lawyer went out celebrating with two friends at a local pub; he took a break to smoke a cigarette outside and a perp killed him with six gunshot in the chest. Detectives narrowed down suspects at the precinct where the cripple cop worked and inside the cop family, but thanks to the mail received by the black guy while he was in prison pending trial, investigation lead to a white supremacy organization placed upstate. The leader was confined in Rikers without any contact to the outside world apart from his lawyer, but when another attorney was killed an "open season" against lawyers has just started...watch out McCoy!

This episode is not so far from the truth. Criminal Defense Attorney and prosecutors fear for their lives because they have to deal with the worst kind of people who have nothing to lose and you can't trust them at all.