Officer Patrick Flannery is the partner of Officer Earl Smith, conspiring with him to ditch white prep school kid Michael Tobin in Harlem, endangering him to being killed by Jerome Weathers and Marcus Cook when they thought he was a snitch.
The mayor ordered the cops be tried for depraved indifference murder, but the cops wanted a manslaughter plea, especially with their case at risk of being transferred to the less-cop friendly New York Supreme Court. (L&O: "Black, White and Blue")