Witness Tampering on NBC’s Law and Order

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Baxter and Price share a drink and debate the fallout of Maroun tampering with a witness. Watch Law & Order Season 25 September 25 on NBC and stream on Peacock.

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00:00There's no question about it, Sam went too far.

00:02She revealed too much about the defendant and she tainted the identification.

00:06Which means I'd have to disclose all this to the defense,

00:08which, of course, would probably cost us the case.

00:13You're right.

00:16On a theoretical level, anyway.

00:20Meaning what?

00:21Years ago, I was trying this monster from Queens.

00:32He'd raped and killed a seven-year-old girl, stabbed her to death.

00:37We knew he did it.

00:38The police found her blood on his shirt, on his pants.

00:41But the judge didn't allow it.

00:44Cops had entered his apartment without a search warrant.

00:46They claimed the manager had given him consent.

00:48Anyway, the blood evidence got tossed,

00:52so our case went from a slam dunk to a jump ball.

00:55And then, on the morning of my closing,

01:01I found this note on my desk.

01:04It said, I need you to know that I killed that little girl.

01:09It was me, not Jim Cooney.

01:13I had no idea how it got there.

01:15No idea who wrote it.

01:16It was just sitting there on my desk.

01:19Now, theoretically, that's exculpatory evidence.

01:23I have to turn it over to the defense.

01:24Theoretically, that is practically the definition of exculpatory evidence.

01:28Yeah.

01:30If I actually saw the note.

01:35Now, I knew with 100% certainty

01:40that the defendant killed that little girl.

01:43And the man who wrote that note, if he even existed,

01:48had absolutely nothing to do with the case.

01:52So I ignored it.

01:54I turned around.

01:57I went about my day like it had never happened.

02:04I thought the point of all this was to avoid those kind of human choices,

02:10to avoid playing God.

02:12It is.

02:14That is the goal, 100%.

02:16But there are certain times in life

02:21when it's impossible to do that.

02:26When the right thing to do

02:28is to actually look the other way.

02:36This might be one of those times.

02:38I'll see you tomorrow.

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