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Elana Barth

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Elana Barth is a former Judge in New York City based in Manhattan. She is now a Defense attorney.

History[]

In 2015, she was shot by Johnny Drake, a.k.a. "Johnny D.", during his trial; however, she survived and eventually recovered (SVU: "Surrendering Noah").

She was secretly seeing her colleague, Judge Edward Kofax, though both of them were married. However, when SVU presented her with evidence of his involvement with a sex trafficking ring, she was devastated and agreed to wear a wire and record one of their conversations in order to get him arrested. (SVU: "Brothel")

In 2019, Barth stepped down as a judge and became a defense attorney. Her first client was movie studio executive Sir Tobias Moore. She reunited with SVU, telling them of her career change as well as how she and her husband got divorced in this time. (SVU: "I'm Going To Make You a Star")

Her next client was local celebrity Markeevious Ryan who was accused of serial rape. Barth was able to get several accusations shut down, leaving only one made by aspiring artist Monica Russo. In court, she went up against newly appointed A.D.A Dominick Carisi, Jr., mockingly assuring she'd go easy on him. As the trial progressed, Barth nearly won with her defense of shakedown but Carisi was able to show the jury Ryan's misogynistic behavior by having him reveal the lawsuits. In the end, she loses the case to Carisi and Ryan was imprisoned. (SVU: "She Paints For Vengeance")

She later represents the Bishop Club, a college fraternity that were accuse of conspiracy to commit rape. Barth voiced her outrage at the notion that every member was being charged and called it political nonsense to attach a hate crime tag to the charge. Barth was able to get them release on bail while sharing a tense talk with Carisi. Despite her efforts, several members were persuaded to testify against leader Austin Drake. During interrogation, Barth mocks Det. Andy Parlato-Goldstein for his previous membership to the Bishop Club but Parlato-Goldstein wasn't fazed by this, pointing out that the Bishop Club of the past didn't target girls for rape. In response to this, Austin makes bigoted comments to Parlato-Goldstein, until Barth stops him and Carisi threatens to reintroduce hate crime charges. Barth was given time to converse with her client.(SVU: "Promising Young Gentlemen")

Cases tried[]

  • Allowed Isabel Cortezar to testify for the prosecution if they can produce her.
  • Allowed the defense to introduce the rape complainant's previous prostitution conviction from her home country Sudan.
  • Allowed the defense to call an additional witness, Mr. Achok, who wasn't on their initial witness list.
  • Denied the prosecution's motion to dismiss a juror she suspected the defendant tampered with.
  • Granted the defendant's motion to represent himself with Roger Kressler acting as his standby counsel.
  • Sentenced the defendant to time served for being found guilty of stalking in the fourth degree of Avery Jordan.
  • Disallowed Detective Amanda Rollins from testifying to the fact that she was raped by the defendant on the grounds that her testimony would be more prejudicial than probative.
  • Accepted a plea of guilty from the defendant for sexual abuse in the third degree for raping Detective Reese Taymor after he allocuted.
  • Sentenced the defendant to probation with no jail time with community service and he goes on the sex offender registry.
  • Granted the defendant's motion to represent himself with Sofia Crane as his co-counsel.
  • Considered defense's motion to dismiss of all charges on the basis that Sergeant Olivia Benson framed the defendant to deny him his parental rights to a boy Benson is fostering named Noah Porter. Barth chose to speak to the ME's office and Sergeant Benson before ultimately denying the defense's motion.
  • Makes ADA Barba drop his objection to Evan Braun's questioning of Benson about her foster son in exchange for dropping his possible unethical behavior when Braun asks when Barba knew Noah was his client's son.
  • Cleared the court room after repeated outburst from sex slaves still loyal to Drake during his trial.
  • Trial proceedings concluded when the defendant was killed after he grabbed a court officer's gun and shot four people, including Judge Barth.
  • Conducted a bench trial.
  • Found the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the second degree with a hate crime statute attached.
  • Remanded the defendant to Brookwood Secure Center until his eighteenth birthday where he will be transferred to Green Haven Correctional Facility to serve the remainder of his seven-year sentence.
  • Accepted a plea of guilty from the defendant for murder in the second degree for raping and killing Ashley Harper after he allocuted to the crime.
  • Moves to set a trial date after the defendant retracts his initial allocution.
  • Allowed the defense to call their own eyewitness to what happened.
  • Accepted a plea of guilty from the defendant for rape in the second degree of Janie Spears after he allocuted to the crime.
  • Sentenced the defendant to twenty-four months in prison.
  • Allowed the defendant to testify a second time to introduce a new defense that contradicted her prior testimony that she was raped and her son shot in attacker in her defense. She instead says her son murdered his best friend after he caught them in the act of having sex and she lied to protect him.
  • Denied the prosecution's motion to use depositions of women sexually assaulted by the defendant from Civil Court to display a pattern of behavior on the grounds that they are more prejudicial than probative.
  • Accepted a plea of guilty from the defendant for the rape of Heidi Sorenson and sentenced the defendant to eighteen months in prison.
  • People vs. Mariel McLaughlin (SVU: "Pathological")
    • Reluctantly granted a mistrial and moved the case to family court after it was revealed three jurors overheard Barba in a courthouse elevator stating Mariel could receive life imprisonment if convicted of murdering her mother.
    • Summoned Barba into her chambers after the trial concluded and sternly reprimanded him.

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