Alan Ridenour

Alan Ridenour is a Judge in New York City.

He is a known participant of Judge Joseph P. Terhune's weekly poker games. (SVU: "Bound")

Alexandra Cabot looked for him to sign a warrant for Tyler Brunsen's apartment, but Judge Joshua Koehler told her that he had to have emergency gallbladder surgery. (SVU: "Liberties")

Cases tried[]

People vs. John Doe #121 (SVU: "Limitations")
- Denied ADA Kathleen Eastman's application for an arrest warrant on an unidentified suspect based on DNA evidence.
People vs. Randolph Morrow (SVU: "Slaves")
- Denied ADA Erica Alden's application for a warrant to search his house.
People vs. Jaleel Amir (SVU: "Honor")
- Ruled that Amir's pre-arrest confession to killing his sister was an excited utterance, and therefore admissible.
- Allowed Amir to plead insanity on the condition that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
- Prevented attempts by Amir's lawyer to block Jews and women from serving as potential jurors.
People vs. Darrell Guan (SVU: "Inheritance")
Scott Lucas vs. Rebecca Tolliver (SVU: "Competence")
People vs. Lucille Mobrey (CI: "Chinoiserie")
- Denied ADA Ron Carver's application for a warrant on her home based on insufficient evidence.
People vs. Jeremy Brice (SVU: "Juvenile")
People vs. Dan Hoffman (SVU: "Desperate")
People vs. Marilyn Nesbit (SVU: "Home")
People vs. Brooklyn Federal Prison (CI: "Stress Position")
- Issues a writ of habeas corpus for release of undocumented prisoners.

People vs. Siobhan Miller (SVU: "Taken")
People vs. Jason Mayberry (SVU: "Pique")
People vs. Kyle Fuller (SVU: "Deception")
- Arraigned the defendant on $1,000,000 bail and confiscated his passport until after the trial.
- Revoked bail and remanded Fuller after he leaves the state to go to Virginia to marry his stepmother, Gloria Stanfield.
People vs. Doug Waverly, Jason King, and Nicky Pratt (SVU: "Gone")
- Released all three defendants on their own recognizance and granted ADA Novak's request to seize all their passports on the endangering the welfare of a child charge.
- Dismissed the rape and murder charges.
People vs. Kathleen Stabler (SVU: "Swing")
People vs. Vance Shepard (SVU: "Sugar")
People vs. Olivia Benson (SVU: "Perverted")
- Arraigned the defendant on $250,000 bail.
People vs. Wayne Hankett (SVU: ""Wannabe")
People vs. Hunter Mazelon (SVU: "Delinquent")
- Arraigned the defendant on $5,000 bail and granted on order of protection for Annie Meyers, the attempted victim.