Rage (L&O)

"Rage"
←	L&O, Episode 5.13	→
Production number: 69414 First aired: 1 February 1995
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Written By Michael S. Chernuchin Directed By Arthur W. Forney

Plot

"Black rage" is used as a defense in the case of a Wall Street broker killing his mentor.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
• Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
• Gia Galeano as Detective Gia
• Bernie McInerney as Judge Michael Callahan

Guest cast

• Richard Libertini as Defense Attorney David Solomon
• Wendell Pierce as Jerome Bryant
• Keith Charles as William E. Cooke
• Olivia Birkelund as Joan Stillman
• Courtney B. Vance as Benjamin Greer
• Armand Schultz as Dr. Kenneth Price
• Judith Moreland as Dr. Bettina Osgood
• Chuck Patterson as Jack Greer
• Angela Bullock as Roberta Cooley
• Jim Bracchitta as Kaplan
• Jessica Walling as Krista Holbrook
• Rosemary McNamara as Rose
• David Bishins as Kevin Boggs
• John MacKay as Thomas Barnes
• John Ellison Conlee as Hal
• Keith Kirk as Porter
• Robert Floyd as Dan Fairman
• Maggie Low as Haynes
• Scott Whitehurst as Melman
• Mick O'Rourke as Cabbie
• Marjorie Johnson as Jury Forewoman

References

• Black Rage
• Wallace Holbrook (victim)
• Michael Jackson
• Killarney, Ireland
• Los Angeles
• O.J. Simpson
• Tokyo, Japan
• Mike Tyson

Quotes

Background information and notes

• This episode is based on the Colin Ferguson case and the "black rage" defense. Ferguson used the affirmative defense as mitigation in the Long Island Railroad shootings of December 7, 1993 that resulted in the deaths of six people and wounding of nineteen others. During the course of the trial, Ferguson fired his counsel and undertook a pro se defense. Upon the jury's rejection of the "black rage" assertion, Ferguson was sentenced to 315 years, 8 months on combined multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.

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