Law & Order Criminal Intent

The episode of Law & Order I watched this week was very different from others. A man's wife was found murdered however unlike all the other episodes where the detectives would assume the husband to be a suspect until ruled out, the detectives could not do this because he was a highly respected judge. The new detective did not understand this and kept questioning him and being "rude". The DA and her partner took her aside and told her that she had to respect him because of his place in the judicial system. She did not understand why this man was getting different treatmeant from what other suspects normallly would. The detectives even let him sit in while they checked out the crime scene which is never allowed. In the end the dectives finally had enough information on the judge to arrest him however it just goes to show you how corupt the court system can be.

SVU

I watched a disturbing episode of SVU today. It started out with a young woman coming to the police station to report a rape. She said that she was raped by her father when she was 11 years old. She wanted to report it now becasue she said that he was doing it again, but this time with her younger sister. After investigating, mens underwear and child pornography pictures were found in the younger sisters room. After another investigation of this evidence, it was found that the older sister, Meghan, had planted the evidence to make sure that her dad couldn't hurt them anymore. He never went to trial because the evidence was planted. The day after this, the father was found shot and killed in his office. After another long investigation, the detectives discovered that the middle daughter had shot her father when her and Meghan went to go talk to him at his office. She did it to make him stop hurting her sisters. Throughout their entire investigation, the detectives had been talking to Meghan's therapist. It turns out that she had given Meghan a "truth serum" that made her hallucinate. The therapist convinced her that her father had raped her, even though he did not.

SVU ; [WASTE] *

Today I watched an episode of SVU and from the very beginning it was a complete shock. It starts with a patient who is in the ICU. She was just transferred to the hospital from a rehab center as she has been there since she got into a car accident a year before. The doctor tending to her called SVU after doing a check up on her and found out she was six weeks pregnant. What makes the situation worse; she been in a vegetative state since her car accident a year prior. They begin the investigation by looking into all who cared for her. They talk to one of the caretakers at the hospital that says that her ex-fiancee was seen earlier that week in the victims room sleeping in her bed with her. Detectives check out the story with the fiancee and find out he had been seeing her once a month secretly, due to the restraining order the victims parents had put on him.
A little while later, the parent's of the victim find that their daughter has been transferred back to the same rehab center she was raped at. When detectives walk in they find the victims mother at the information desk where she is attempting to find out where her daughter has been placed. Moments later they find she has been sent into surgery. It is later found out that the doctor that detectives earlier questioned ordered the victims pregnancy to be terminated without the consent of the parents. He claims it was a "medical emergency" and he had the consent of the victim father.
The doctor's story checks out however when looking further in the investigation they find that this isn't the first time the doctor has been in this situation. Detectives find out that patients in similar situations were being artificially inseminated and used for stem cell research. The doctor is put on trial and is let go free of all but one charge due to the heart wrenching tale told by the man the stem cells were made for. At the end of the episode we find the man with Parkinson's is filing for custody of the baby for the umbilical cord, full of the cells he needs.

SVU

Today I watched an episode of SVU about these teenagers who found a body floating in the river. The victim was a 14 year old girl who had already been dead for two weeks but had a similar tattoo as others that have died. They went and question a guy who was known for tattooing minors and he admitted to tattooing them but denied having anything to do with the killings. They went and see one of th girls who had been killed biological mother because the girl was in foster care. The mother really didn't care she was a crack addict and just wanted to know if she could sue anyone for the death of her daughter. They went to the group home where the girl Chantel lived. They talked to the girls their and said that Chantel left with Victor who was a pimp. They end up rounding up all the teenage prostitutes and the detective noticed one had the same tattoo as Chantel so they brought her in. She said she loved Victor and wanted to marry him and then mentioned their was a guy named Blake who would sometimes take girls to live with him and he too Chantel. They found Blake and brought him in for questioning he admitted to picking the girls up and that was it he didn't kill them. They thought it was Victor so they had the case brought to trial he was found guilty, He then broke out of jail so the detective had to shoot him and he died. It is said how we have young girls being used for prostitution, it is really upsetting. Women shouldn't be selling themselvels never mind barely teenage girls doing it.

Law and Order: SVU

I just watched an episode of Law and Order:SVU about a series of murders of rapists. After finding many suspects, it turns out that the murderer was a woman who worked at a clinic for HIV positive people who knew the rapists that were killed because they had HIV and she treated them. Her reasoning was that she didn't want them to infect anymore people with their deadly disease; it became even more emotional when the woman admitted that she was infected with AIDS and was dying because an HIV positive man raped her nine years before. I think this episode was commenting on the state of America's rapists and pedophiles because many citizens feel vulnerable and do not like the fact that rapists and pedophiles are given the same rights as every other American even after they have committed a horrible crime. In the episode, the men were stalked, harassed, and a Neighborhood Watch program posted pictures of them everywhere. The episode also was commenting on the spread of HIV and AIDS. I think the episode was trying to say that there are still people out there who are not careful to protect other people from their disease.

SVU

On tonights episode a nanny was murdered. The nanny's husband was away and she was in New York by herself taking care of this family. But the nanny was getting lonely being there all by herself. So she started surfing the internet and chatting with guys on a website. So the detective went out to question first the found the mother of the children and they found her cheating on her husband, but she did give her the names of the nanny's friends. So they then looked into the mother's boyfriend and found out that he was the father of the child not the person who was said to be the father. They went and talk to the friends of the nanny and the said she was using a website to meet guys they found her site and the three guys she was talking to. They talked to all three guys but one of the guys was older and he was the one who killed her because she laughed in his face when she met him because he was to old. The husband of the lady who thought he had children with her ended up killing her because the real father was going to file for visitation of the kid and he got mad, because she was going to let him and laughed when he got mad. This episode goes to show you how people can flip out so easily and do crazy things all over just one thing.

SVU

I just watched an episode of svu about a mother and daughter who were brutally murdered. They really didn't have any clues except their were teeth marks on the bodies and they found out the mother was having an affair. They went to see him at his tennis club and he wouldn't talk until the detectives embarassed him and he finally talked. He told them that the girls were last seen with a homeless guy in the park. When they go to see him and go to where he sleeps and see all the newspaper clippings he has about rapings and murders they then bring him in for questioning. After interigating him they realize that he suffers fro alzimers disease and they don't have any evidence on him anyway. Then they found out that this Banks guy was the last one to see them and they brought him in for questioning. While questioning him the detective offers him a piece of gum. It was trick to get his teeth marks so they could match the teeth marks to the ones on the body. They ended up matching the teeth marks and bringing Banks to court. The judge dismissed the case saying that teeth marks were not enough evidence. But they ended up linking Banks to the Murders because of where he was at certain times.

law & order

yesterday I watched an episode of Law and order. It was about a college student who was murdered. The student spent a lot of time working with her professor on projects and it was assumed that they were having an affair. When the detectives questioned the professor about her killing he denied having anything to do with it even though he saw her last late at night after finishing working on a project. Many people thought he killed her because he was so vein and she was much smarter then he was. Her best friend and her boyfriend were very upset they both couldn't believe it. The detectives really thought that it was the Professor, so they arrested him on campus in front of everyone and brought him in for questioning. There was no hard evidence linking the professor. The y end up finding out she went to the library after being with the professor. They also found that she was having an affair with her best friends boyfriend. So they brought him in for questioning and he wouldn't admit anything. Finally after hours of questioning he breaks and admits to killing her because he didn't want his girlfriend to find out. But after all that even though the professor was inocent he now has a ruined reputation because everyone will remember that he was the guy who was arrested on campus.

SVU

I watched an episode the other day that was different from usual SVU epidsodes. It started out with two maids walking into their clients apartment. They found her handcuffed to the bed with a bag over her head. She was unconscious. They called 911 and the woman was brought to the hospital. She did not die. At first, the woman said that she was raped, but by evidence, it was clear that she was not. At first they thought it was a man who just ended an affair with her, that he might have tried to kill her, but that lead was unsuccessful. When one of the detectives went to the hospital, the woman collapsed and died while walking with the detective. It turns out that she had a glucose level of 2, and normal glucose level is somewhere around 90. She died from an insulin injection. After looking at all possible suspects, the detectives ruled that it was a suicide. After the woman died, they looked on her laptop to see if they could find anything about how she got the insulin. This trail led to a fertility doctor who had a website giving people courage to kill themselves. It turns out that this website was what made her NOT want to kill herself. She looked at it as helping others. Although she ahs te right to tell people whatever she wants, she supplied the other woman with the insulin, as well as helped her handcuff to the bed and put the bag over her head. The doctor had kidney failure and refused to get treatment in a prision hospital. She wanted to die a slow painful death for what happened with the other woman. One of the detectives convinsed her to get treatment because he said suicide was selfish, his own father had killed himself.

SVU

This weeks episode touched on the very contriversal topics of the death penalty and also whether or not putting criminals in a mental hospital vs. jail is still seeking justice for victims. A man raped and brutally beat 2 young girls because he was off his medicine and truly believed he was seeking revenge on boys who had gang raped his younger sister. The DA feels in her heart that this man should not be given the death penalty and should be sent to a mental institution however it is her job to represent "the people" and the people want him in jail or dead for what he did. Its sad because once this man is back on his meds he is so sick about what he did that he actually wants to die. It feels wrong to feel sorry for someone who did such horrible things but what if it really wasnt his fault? I'm not sure if I believe that the death penalty is ever good, officers argue in this episode that the death penalty for rape is justified because rapists are shown to not only rape once but continuously. I feel for the man if he really did not know what he was doing and maybe he just does need help, but justice does need to be given to these 11 year old girls who almost died. The episode did not have a good ending, in fact we are left not really knowing what happens but either way I feel these issues are very touchy and there is a fine line between pleading mentally insane and actually being it, therefor altering whether or not the death penalty is justifiable in certain cases.

Law + Order; SVU * [CARELESS]

I just got finished watching an episode of SVU that absolutely made me sick. A young boy, about six years old, is killed. At first a priest is suspected of killing the boy during a "midnight exorcism". They find a mark from the priests ring on the boys chest that confirms this. They later go on to find out the boy was dead prior to the "exorcism". This leads detectives to believe the child's foster parents had something to do with it. Upon an investigation in the house where the child was staying, detectives find a pillow with bite marks on it as well as its pillow case, which had been found in the Tish, which match those of the victim. The fibers in the pillow match those found in the boys throat. This leads detective to believe his foster parents were behind the killing. The father is charged with the murder of his foster son. Later, we find out that is wasn't the father but his mother that smothered him. Apparently, they had been housing another child, a girl, and she had walked in on it and was then cut with a cheese grater by her foster mother. To cover it up, they sent her to a mental hospital and say she has gone crazy. It makes me sick to think that the social worker, who hadn't checked on the family in months just because she believe they were in good care, could have potentially prevented the death of this boy but had cases that were apparently more important.

Law & Order

Last night I watched an episode of Law & Order that commented on the inability of gay couples to adopt children as a couple in certain states, namely Florida. At the beginning of the episode, a woman was found dead after falling from a balcony at a swanky hotel. In the end, we find out that the woman was the partner of a woman who had been excommunicated from the victim (by the victim) and their adopted child's lives. The partner was angry that the woman had run away with their daughter and moved to New York and she couldn't do anything about it because technically, she was not an adopted parent because the law said gay couples can not adopt. This episode definitely was making a comment on the issue of gay marriage and gay parenting. All the officials who worked the case believed that the woman should have been able to adopt the child both as parents and not just one as a single parent. At the end of the episode, McCoy made the comment that why shouldn't they (meaning gay couples) be able to marry and adopt as a couple and be miserable just like the rest of us... interesting way to put it. The authors of the episode played up the emotions of the audience by having the partner describe how things were so perfect between her and the adopted daughter and that her only wish was to be able to have rights as a mother.

SVU *

This weeks episode just showed how media can truly influence the world and completely change peoples ideas. It was about a serial killer who was put in jail for murdering a bunch of woman and then proceeded to draw and illustrate them in comics he wrote. The sad thing about this was this man had fans all over who were obsessed with him to the point that some believed they were truly friends and other thought they'd one day marry him. The obsession went deeper than that though; many thought he should be released from jail. It was quite sick to think that people would actually help a man like this get out of jail. He brutally murdered all these woman for no true reason and they felt like that was okay. Just goes to show how something so little as a comic and a fan club can influence peoples minds so drastically.

SVU

this weeks episode of SVU really anoyed me. There was a very sick serial killer in jail and he had a fan club of people who read his comics and actually were obssessed with him and wanted him out. This made me really mad because I dont understand how there are people in this world who feel this way. This man brutally killed people and they want to help him get out of jail? It also made me feel for the victims families who want a serial killer put away and here he is in jail getting fan letters. Thankfully at the end he was put in a much stricter unit and was only aloud 1 hour a day to shower eat ect. and no letters!!

Law Order SVU

In this weeks episode SVU a girl was murdered and mutalated. Then SVU found a bunch of comics that went along with that murder and other murders. There is a guy in jail who did kill all these women before but they don't know who killed this last girl. The guy in jail does have a fan club. People who think they will marry and people who think they are best buddies with him are in the club. The president in of the club is a girl who is his fiance and the vice president is a guy who was his best bud in jail and learned everything from him. People are very sick and it is sad that things like this happen. It actually is very sad that people get obsessed with crazy people like this and are fighting to get them out of jail. People need to realize that these people are not normal and are in jail for a reason.

Law and Order: SVU

Today I watched an episode of Law and Order:SVU about corruption among the detectives in the Special Victims Unit. The detectives were under investigation because of a man they were trying for murder who used their previous slip ups to discredit them. Detective Stabler was accused of getting his daughter's DUI charge dismissed, which ended up being true, while Detective Benson was found to have given money to her brother who was a fugitive. Detective Tutuola, who happened the be the defendant's previous step dad was hit the worst when the defendant revealed that he held evidence in his car for a day after he found it on a criminal. I think this episode was blatantly commenting on the amount of corruption among the police, even when it's so called "good cops". I think the writers of the episode were trying to make the audience see that even cops are normal people and they sometimes make mistakes too, or help out their families, like anyone would.

SVU

In this weeks episode of SVU there were a lot of underlying messages. The most contriversal message was to me was that of currupt cops. However, these cops were not just characters brought in for the show, they were the detectives who are the main characters, the dectives we've grown to love and can not picture being "bad." Detective Benson was being accused of giving her fugitive boyfriend money, which is obviously not good considering her line of work and she decides at the end to confess and face what is coming to her. Fin is being questioned for bringing home evidence (gun and drugs) instead of immediatly logging it at the station. This was an accident however it is a huge deal. Detective Stabler had gotten his daughter off of a DUI charge and when this was brought up in trial the judge had to request to leave because she knew about this, and knew it was true. Stabler had to have his daughter arrested and face the charges like a normal citzen. The captain is facing heat do to all the contriversy with his detectives and may have to take a leave of absense.

This episode had a million other story lines but these issues really struck me because cops are always getting heat for their mistake and or what they do wrong. All of these characters are very good people who got caught up, and are now paying for their mistakes.

SVU

The episode I watched started with a person dying in jail. He had been raped with an object so roughly that his colon had been punctured and he died from internal bleeding. This was a controversal because Benson and Stabler found out that it was the arresting cops that inflicted this damage on the prisioner. When they started investigating this case, they found out that these two cops had killed a multitude of other perps. One was getting paid to kill off drug dealers and make it look like it was out of self defense. The other cop went along with it becuase he felt that he owed it to his partner. The last cop said that he would testify against his partner. This guilt proved to be too much and he hung himself while in jail waiting for his trial. This episode was controversal because it dealt with dirty cops. Although they were getting drug dealers "off the streets", they were killing people for their own agenda. We are supposed to trust cops to do the right thing and protect us, and these cops were killing people for money.

Law And Order SVU

In this weeks episode of Law and Order was about a lady and her "nephew". The"nephew" was brought in on murder charges and they needed the lady to testify involving her being raped. She would not testify, but they kept on trying to get her too. Finally she decided that she would after the female detective convinced her to and told her that she was a product of a rape. While testifying the "nephew" got up and questioned her about the rape. She ended up being his mother not his aunt. He also kept asking who raped her and she said it was her father. That is why she hated her nephew so much, she couldn't stand to look at him without seeing her father. The jury ended up coming to a verdict of not guilty for all counts on him. It is really sad the things that happen in todays world especially some one getting raped by their father, it is just sick. I think that we need more help for these people so they can try to live somewhat of a normal life without always hating the product of the rape because it wasn't their fault.

Law & Order: SVU

Tonight I watched an episode of Law & Order:SVU about a woman who was murdered; she had been stabbed and raped. When the detectives found her they also found a room in her house where she was growing a large amount of marijuana. After the autopsy, the detectives found out that the victim had cancer and she was growing it to help her sooth the side effects of her chemo treatments. In the end, the detectives find out that it was two boys in the sixth grade who thought the woman was a drug dealer and broke into her house to steal money from her, but one of the boys ended up stabbing her and raping her while the other stood and watched; he ended up throwing up and covered the woman with a blanket because he said he couldn't leave someone like that.
I think this episode is reflecting on the larger societal issue of kids growing up too fast. The boy who killed the woman was only in sixth grade and he felt no remorse for stabbing her or raping her, he said she was asking for it.

Law + Order : SVU [HARM]

Last night's episode of SVU was quite interesting though it wasn't really my taste seeing as though it was somewhat confusing and filled with political drama. The episode starts off as a woman is stabbed and left for dead. It is later determined that the woman did some type of work with Arabic refugees. We go on to find out that Kate, the woman who had been stabbed, was receiving phone calls from an anonymous caller who had been harassing her. After the calls are traced, Benson + Stabler arrive at the house where the calls were traced from. They find the suspect had died though his wife was not quite bought on the fact that it was a simple heart attack. It is later found that Habas, the suspect, was tortured several times which led him to have a heart attack. Habas' wife then found that it was the fault of the US government, and Kate was trying to help Habas spread his story to the world about being tortured in Iraq.
In the end of the episode we find that both Kate and Habas were set up to be murdered by Faith Sutton, who trained the man who was to kill the two of them. The trail of Faith Sutton was declared a mistrial and she temporarily lost her license as a doctor.

Law and Order SVU

This week's episode was all over the place. It started out with a woman who had been stabbed in the heart, blead to death, and might have been raped. This woman worked with refugees from Iraq, since she could speak Arabic. The center lead the detectives to a home where some of the refugees lived. The woman had said that her husband had died the same night has the other woman had. After some questioning, the detectives found out that the man had been part of an interrogation by the governement; a cruel torturing that "allegedly" did not leave long term physical or mental damage. The woman who was killed was helping the man write a tell-all book to expose what the government was doing. Although the man died from a heart attack, he had it because he had heart failure from being forced to stay in a freezing ice bath for over 48 hours. The detectives found the woman who taught the army how to use these interrogation "tactics" and tried her for negligance homicide. The trial was declared a mistrial, but the "doctor" temorarily lost her liscence. This was a big political episode. The part about the doctor and the torturing well shown well, but they left a lot of loose ends untied, a lot of unanswered questions.

Law & Order SVU

The Law & Order on tonight was very political, which also made it somewhat confussing. The government was a huge part of it because it was about how they were being questioned for their techniques on questioning iraqi prisoners in iraqi. Someone they had previously questioned years before had a heart attack in a resturerant when he regconizes a soilder and a doctor who had locked him up, tortured, and beat him in Iraq years before. The DA wants to convict the phsycologists (Dr.) who oversees these interegations for assisting in the homicide. The Dr. claimes she did this to help the government and that these people need to be beaten and hurt in order to get an answer out of them. She said " without being treated this way do you think these people will tell us the next time they are going to fly a plane into our buildings?" This stuned the court and the judge called an objection, just then a man who is a jury member has a heart attack. The docter runs over and tries to help revise him, the next thing you know she is on the front page of the paper and it becomes a mistrial because she helped a jury member. This episode was a lot different then the rest because it really hit hard. At one point they had different races of people talking to the camera, telling us what the soilders did to them and how bad they were hurt. The government can not be doing this, I understand what Dr. means in that we have to get answers out of them to save our country but killing them does no good in the long run. This type of questioning needs to come to an end.

Law&Order:SVU

This week on SVU a docotor who was in Iraq was arrested. She used stress tactics to get suspected terrorists to confess. However she did do it in America when she came back which is against the law here. One of her army friends left the country because he knew what they did in Iraq torturing people. One of the supposed terrorist saw the doctor in a restoraunt and got rally scared and piked everywhere. That goes to show you how scard of her he was. Then he died because of a heart attack when he had no heart problems prior. This shows how he and other young men died from heart problems due to the doctor's stressful tactics.

Law & Order:SVU

Today I watched an episode of Law & Order:SVU that had a ton of twists in the plot. First, the show started with a little girl telling Olivia Benson that her mom was having sex with her step-brother. Next, the husband of the woman ended up dead and they found a bloody baseball bat under the bed of the son who they thought was having sex with the stepmother. To make things even more weird, the mother marries the stepson so that he doesn't have to testify against her because of spousal privilege. In the end, we find out that the women was having an affair with another man, who she framed as raping her by planting his frozen sperm on her and also convincing him to kill her husband so they could be together. In the end, the son divorces his stepmother and the stepmother is arrested for having her boyfriend kill her husband and planting evidence on herself to frame him.
To me, this episode challenges once again the cultural norm of sex between family members, even if not blood related, is wrong. This stepmother has sex with her stepson when he's only 16 and then marries him! That certainly challenges what most people would view as normal. Also, the show really capitalized on the viewers emotions by playing dramatic music when they revealed another twist in the plot and moving the camera close in to someone's face when they were being told something they didn't know before. In addition, this episode definitely showed the advantages someone with money and fame has when they are being charged with something or on trial. The stepmother was a famous actress, and she was able to get her son out of a bail of more than one million dollars and she also was able to hire a lawyer that was one of the best in New York City.

Law and Order SVU

This week I watched an episode of Law and Order SVU about a judge who was shot and also lost his step daughter after she was beaten to death. In the end I learned that the judge had actually impregnated the step daughter but covered it up by saying that him and his wife adopted the child. The judge made the step daughter's life hell by sending her to a juvenile detention center to cover up the pregnancy and while she was there, she ended up writing letters to inmates who had been put in jail by her step father. She promised them sex so that they would meet with her, and when she eventually met with one, she asked him to kill her step father. It ended up that the girl was killed by her own mother who was so upset that her daughter had been impregnated by her husband.
This episode definitely challenged the idea of American family life, since it is considered disgusting and wrong to sexually abuse a child, let alone your own child. It brings up an issue that has gotten more and more attention since the outburst of new media, which is child molestation and pedophilia. Now there are shows that talk about this all the time, shows that bait men and then arrest them once they tried to engage in any type of wrongful activity with a minor. Also, the fact that the step daughter uses her father's position as a judge to find someone he convicted to kill him seems funny, because no matter what, you always go for the man above you; the convicted men may not have been the ones to shoot the judge, but they didnt hesitate to meet with his daughter.

Law and Order SVU

In this week’s episode of Law and Order SVU a lady was almost killed. The lady was cheating on her husband who was away a lot for his job. They had a daughter with Williams disease which is a disability dealing with emotion. The husband was a suspect but it was not him who killed his wife. The only witness was the daughter. The wife was having an affair with her best friends husband. But even he was not the person who tried to kill her. It was the best friends son who tried to kill the lady because he knew that his father had got her pregnant. The only way this was all proven was through the daughter because she can tell the exact pitches of voices. She heard the voices in her mother’s bedroom, she knew it was not her father in there. But there were two guys in the room at different times, the first guy who was having the affair did not try to kill her according to the daughter. The second voice was the one who tried to kill her and the daughter recognized the voice as the son of the mother’s best friend. I think this episode was to show that the daughter could prove the case even though she had a disability.

Law & Order: SVU

This weeks episode of Law and Order: SVU was intriguing and compelling as usual. It was exciting and nerve racking as it always it. The central problem in this episode was about a woman who was beaten almost to death. Her husband was the main suspect, but the detectives were not allowed to talk to him because of the Patriot Act. He had been working with the FBI to catch biochemical terrorists. The show also focused on the daughter. She was mentally challenged in a strange way. She was super sensative and very receptive to other peoples emotions. She could hear pitch perfectly and also heard the way people speak magnified in her ears. She was the only witness to her mother's beating and the court had to decide if she was capable to testify. The father hid from the FBI and the detectives found him. Although he did not hurt his wife, he was illegally selling biochemical information to lesser companies. He did not go to jail because he testified against the man he sold the information to, in order to get immunity. Most Law and Order: SVU episodes do not get overly political, so I was suprised when they had the issue of the Patriot Act.