User:Murph520/Justice (Law & Order episode)

Justice is the 210th episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order and the fifth episode of the tenth season.

Plot
McCoy is surprised to see Gordon represented by his former ADA colleague Jamie Ross.

Wolinsky threatens to "bury" McCoy if he attempts to challenge Wolinsky's verdict. DA Adam Schiff informs McCoy that he will have to identify the source of the anonymous tip to make a case against Wolinsky. McCoy and Carmichael regard this as almost impossible but they begin to pore over the details of the relevant investigation and trial. McCoy soon realizes that Ross was most probably the source of the tip; Ross represented Gordon on a charge unrelated to, but contemporaneous with, the original trial and McCoy thinks, at that time, Gordon confessed to Ross that he was the murderer. Ross has returned now to represent Gordon again, in a further, determined attempt to see justice done. Confronted with this by McCoy, Ross refuses to confirm or deny McCoy's theory, beyond pointing out that by giving the tip she would have breached attorney-client privilege. Despite McCoy's pleas, Ross refuses to come forward and admit to being the source of the tip. McCoy flatly informs Ross that he will do "whatever it takes" to prosecute Gordon for the murder, and free.

McCoy's first tactic is to ask Ross to persuade Gordon to simply confess to the murder and accept McCoy's offer of a plea-bargain sentence of 25-to-life, without a trial. In that way, Ross's privilege problem will be avoided and Gordon will be imprisoned for the murder. Ross agrees to take the offer to her client but refuses to recommend the deal, as there is very little physical evidence against Gordon. As the pair and Gordon argue about the offer, with Ross caught in the middle, she suddenly quits as Gordon's lawyer, admitting to him she "may have committed an ethical violation" and can no longer represent him on that basis.

Schiff and Carmichael are amused that Ross appears to have out-witted McCoy. But McCoy decides he can get Ross's privileged information into evidence by arresting Judge Wolinsky for murder, on the basis that will be wrongly executed for the murder of.