Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Television series
German title	Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Original title	Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2004-2006
length	45 minutes
Episodes	13 in 1 season
genre	Crime series , drama
idea	Dick Wolf
music	Mike Post
First broadcast	March 3, 2005 (USA) on NBC
German-language first broadcast	March 4, 2015 on RTL Nitro

The series Law & Order: Trial by Jury is the third offshoot of Law & Order and started in the USA in March 2005. It focuses less on the police investigation, but shows the crimes from the point of view of judges, lawyers, defendants and the Jury. After just two months and twelve episodes, Law & Order: Trial by Jury was canceled, even though the ratings, with an average of 12.2 million, were even ahead of the most direct competitor, Numbers - The Logic of Crime , which had just started . That same year, Dick Wolf made it clear in an interview with the Associated Press that he had actually been promised a sequel to the series and that NBC practically stabbed him in the back with the dismissal. There were similar complications later with the cancellation of the Law & Order main series.

The thirteenth episode of Trial by Jury was late for primary airing in January 2006. The production suffered a serious setback, even before it was broadcast, with the death of Jerry Orbach , Lennie Briscoe , the longest-serving detective in the Law & Order franchise , originally intended to guarantee ratings. Orbach can only be seen in the first two episodes and was then replaced by Scott Cohen . Trial by Jury was the first Law & Order series ever to be canceled. Another followed five years later: the mother series Law & Order . (Except for the spin-off Conviction , which was not nicknamed Law & Order in the title.)

A special feature of the series is that, despite its only 13 episodes, it includes guest appearances by almost all of the stars of the series Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and one crossover episode each with these series. Fred Dalton Thompson played his main role from Law & Order here on a regular basis, whereas he was only seen sporadically in other Law & Order spin-offs. With Carey Lowell , a former Law & Order leading actress continued her role in two episodes . Her figure had now made the rise from assistant public prosecutor to judge. As a result of the participation of all these characters, the series contributes relatively strongly to the networking within the Law & Order franchise , despite its short-lived nature . Added to this is the coincidence that in two episodes, Peter Coyote and Alfred Molina , two actors can also be seen who later took on leading roles in Law & Order: LA - the only series set in America with Law & Order in the name that follows Trial by jury was started.

Cast and dubbing

Main actor with roles and appearances

role		actor	Voice actor	Duration of the main role
rank	Surname			Seasons	Episodes
ADA	Tracey Kibre	Bebe Neuwirth	Madeleine proud	1	1-13
ADA	Kelly Gaffney	Amy Carlson	Melanie Manstein	1	1-13
THERE	Arthur Branch	Fred Dalton Thompson	Norbert Gastell	1	1-13
DA Investigator	Hector Salazar	Kirk Acevedo	Manou Lubowski	1	1-13
Detective	Chris Ravell	Scott Cohen	Martin Halm	1	5-13
Det.	Lennie Briscoe	Jerry Orbach	Erich Ludwig	1	1-2

Detective Chris Ravell appeared for the first time in the 3rd episode in a guest role, in which he was already investigating alongside Hector Salazar. In the fourth episode, neither of them could be seen. Here the investigators were instead played by Paul Calderón and David Vadim . After it was finally determined that Jerry Orbach could not return to the series, Chris Ravell was added to the main cast, and thus also the intro, from episode 5.

Further information

Episodes 1.08 and 1.11 are crossovers with the series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit .
Christopher Meloni (Detective Elliot Stabler), Mariska Hargitay (Detective Olivia Benson) and Diane Neal (ADA Casey Novak) appeared in episode 11, Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch) in episode 8.
Episode 8 is through the appearances of Jesse L. Martin (Detective Edward "Ed" Green), S. Epatha Merkerson (Lieutenant Anita van Buren), Dennis Farina (Senior Detective Joe Fontana) and Sam Waterston (DA Jack McCoy) at the same time a crossover with the parent series Law & Order .

Episode list

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)
1	Dirty show business	The Abominable Showman	3rd Mar 2005	4th Mar 2015
2	41 shots and eleven seconds	Forty-one shots	4th Mar 2005	4th Mar 2015
3	Vigilante	Vigilante	11th Mar 2005	11th Mar 2015
4th	The smart, the rich and the stupid	Truth or Consequences	18 Mar 2005	11th Mar 2015
5	Great responsibility	Baby boom	25th Mar 2005	18 Mar 2015
6th	Noticeable behavior	Pattern of Conduct	Apr 1, 2005	18 Mar 2015
7th	A clever plan	Bang & Blame	Apr 8, 2005	25th Mar 2015
8th	Just over a corpse	skeleton	Apr 15, 2005	Apr 1, 2015
9	A trace of guilt	The Line	Apr 22, 2005	25th Mar 2015
10	Wall of silence	Blue wall	Apr 29, 2005	Apr 8, 2015
11	Family shame	Day	May 3, 2005	Apr 8, 2015
12	Blood is thicker than water	Boys Will Be Boys	May 6, 2005	Apr 15, 2015
13	Not a true hero	Eros in the Upper Eighties	Jan. 26, 2006	Apr 15, 2015

DVD

In the USA, the complete series with all 13 episodes was released on DVD on April 25, 2006.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The story of this episode is a continuation from the mother series Law & Order episode 345, The attorney's dark soul ... (1) .
2. ↑ ^{a b} The story of this episode is a sequel to the series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, episode 136, Family Honor .

Web links

• Law & Order: Trial by Jury in the Internet Movie Database (English)