Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The series Law & Order: Trial by Jury is the third spin-off of Law & Order and launched in the U.S. in March 2005, focuses less on the police investigation, but shows the crime from the perspective of judges, lawyers, defendants. and the jury. Trial by jury issued, although the audience even before the most direct, then also just recently launched competitors Numbers with an average of 12.2 million - were The logic of the crime: after only two months and twelve episodes was Law & Order. Dick Wolf made in the same year in an interview with The Associated Press show that is fallen to him in deposing practically in the back was it a continuation of the series actually assured and NBC. Similar complications were later also in the dismissal of the Law & Order main series.
The thirteenth episode of Trial by Jury came only in January 2006, too late for their primary appeal. A major setback was the production, even before the broadcast, suffered by the death of Jerry Orbach, who was originally intended as the senior detective in Law & Order franchise, Lennie Briscoe as rate guarantee. Orbach is seen only in the first two episodes and was subsequently replaced by Scott Cohen. Trial by jury was the first Law & Order series at all, which was discontinued. Five years later another followed: the mother series Law & Order. ( Aside from the spinoff Conviction, but not the sobriquet Law & Order in the title. )
A special feature of the series is that, despite its only 13 episodes, guest appearances by almost all former stars of the series Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and one crossover episode with this series contains. Fred Dalton Thompson played his starring role in Law & Order here beyond even regularly recurring, whereas it was only sporadically seen in other Law & Order spin-offs. With Carey Lowell sat in two episodes also a former Law & Order actress continued her role. Her figure had now completed the ascent of the assistive prosecutor to judge. The series is due to the Mitwirkens all these characters, despite their short-lived, relatively strong for networking within the Law & Order franchises at. There is also the chance that with Peter Coyote and Alfred Molina also also has two actors are seen in two episodes, which later starred in Law & Order: LA took over - the single gambling in America series Law & Order in the name, after Trial by jury has been started.
Occupation
Detective Chris Ravell first appeared in the third episode in a guest role on, in which he determined already at the side of Hector Salazar. In the 4th episode both were not seen. Here the investigators instead of Paul Calderon and David Vadim were played. After it became clear that Jerry Orbach could not return to the series, was Chris Ravell sequence from the 5 main cast, and thus also the intro added.
Episode List
DVD
In the U.S., the complete series with all 13 episodes was released on 25 April 2006 on DVD.