Arthur Branch

Arthur Branch
Name	Arthur Branch
Title	District Attorney
Affiliation	Manhattan District Attorney's Office Pennington Cleese (former)
Occupation	Attorney
Family	Lillian Branch (wife) Bobby Branch (son) Unnamed grandson (grandson) Maggie (granddaughter) Andy (nephew)
Status	Alive (resigned)
Actor	Fred Dalton Thompson
First Appearance	"American Jihad"
Last Appearance	"The Family Hour"

Arthur Branch was the District Attorney (D.A.) of New York County from 2002 to 2007.

History

He was elected in 2001 and replaced Nora Lewin. He resigned, for unspecified reasons, in 2007 and was replaced by Jack McCoy. His politics are generally much more conservative than Lewin's, as he generally supports capital punishment. He does not acknowledge a constitutionally-based right to privacy and said he feels Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided because of that view. (L&O: "Hitman") In spite of his pro-life views, he asks Casey Novak to arrest a doctor who had set up a fake abortion clinic. (SVU: "Rockabye")

Michael Cutter told Branch's successor Jack McCoy that Branch was being recruited to participate in a reality television show revolving around the case they had just closed. Cutter did not respond when a stunned McCoy asked if that statement was a joke. (L&O: "Reality Bites")

Appearances

• Law & Order (5 seasons, 116 episodes):
  • Season 13: "American Jihad" • "Shangri-La" • "True Crime" • "Tragedy on Rye" • "The Ring" • "Hitman" • "Open Season" • "Asterisk" • "The Wheel" • "Mother's Day" • "Chosen" • "Under God" • Absentia" • "Star Crossed" • "Bitch" • "Suicide Box" • "Genius" • "Maritime" • "Seer" • "Kid Pro Quo" • "House Calls" • "Sheltered" • "Couples" • "Smoke"
  • Season 14: "Bodies" • "Bounty" • "Patient Zero" • "Shrunk" • "Blaze" • "Identity" • "Floater" • "Embedded" • "Compassion" • "Ill-Conceived" • "Darwinian" • "Payback" • "Married with Children" • "City Hall" • "Veteran's Day" • "Can I Get a Witness?" • "Hands Free" • "Evil Breeds" • "Nowhere Man" • "Everybody Loves Raimondo's" • "Vendetta" • "Gaijin" • "Caviar Emptor" • "C.O.D."
  • Season 15: "Paradigm" • "The Dead Wives Club" • "The Brotherhood" • "Coming Down Hard" • "Gunplay" • "Cut" • "Gov Love" • "Cry Wolf" • "All in the Family" • "Enemy" • "Fixed" • "Mammon" • "Ain't No Love" • "Fluency" • "Obsession" • "The Sixth Man" • "License to Kill" • "Dining Out" • "Sects" • "Tombstone" • "Publish and Perish" • "Sport of Kings" • "In God We Trust" • "Locomotion"
  • Season 16: "Red Ball" • "Flaw" • "Ghosts" • "Age of Innocence" • "Life Line" • "Birthright" • "House of Cards" • "New York Minute" • "Criminal Law" • "Acid" • "Bible Story" • "Family Friend" • "Heart of Darkness" • "Magnet" • "Choice of Evils" • "Cost of Capital" • "America, Inc." • "Thinking Makes It So" • "Positive" • "Kingmaker" • "Hindsight" • "Invaders"
  • Season 17: "Fame" • "Avatar" • "Home Sweet" • "Fear America" • "Public Service Homicide" • "Profiteer" • "In Vino Veritas" • "Release" • "Deadlock" • "Corner Office" • "Remains of the Day" • "Charity Case" • "Talking Points" • "Church" • "Melting Pot" • "Murder Book" • "Good Faith" • "Bling" • "Fallout" • "Captive" • "Over Here" • "The Family Hour"
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (4 seasons, 11 episodes):
  • Season 4: "Fallacy"
  • Season 5: "Manic" • "Loss" • "Serendipity" • "Abomination" • "Shaken"
  • Season 6: "Night" • "Goliath"
  • Season 7: "Starved" • "Rockabye" • "Gone"
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury (1 season, 13 episodes):
  • Season 1: "The Abominable Showman" • "41 Shots" • "Vigilante" • "Truth or Consequences" • "Baby Boom" • "Pattern of Conduct" • "Bang & Blame" • "Skeleton" • "The Line" • "Blue Wall" • "Day" • "Boys Will Be Boys" • "Eros in the Upper Eighties"
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 season, 1 episode):
  • Season 5: "In the Wee Small Hours (Part II)"
• Conviction (1 season, 1 episode):
  • Season 1: "Pilot"

Law & Order - Main Characters

Law Senior Detectives: Max Greevey • Phil Cerreta • Lennie Briscoe • Joe Fontana • Ed Green • Cyrus Lupo • Kevin Bernard • Frank Cosgrove • Vincent Riley Junior Detectives: Mike Logan • Rey Curtis • Ed Green • Nick Falco • Nina Cassady • Cyrus Lupo • Kevin Bernard • Frank Cosgrove • Jalen Shaw Commanding Officers: Donald Cragen • Anita Van Buren • Kate Dixon • Jessica Brady Order Executive Assistant District Attorneys: Benjamin Stone • Jack McCoy • Michael Cutter • Nolan Price Assistant District Attorneys: Paul Robinette • Claire Kincaid • Jamie Ross • Abbie Carmichael • Serena Southerlyn • Alexandra Borgia • Connie Rubirosa • Samantha Maroun District Attorneys: Adam Schiff • Nora Lewin • Arthur Branch • Jack McCoy • Nicholas Baxter Others Elizabeth Olivet • Alfred Wentworth