"Law & Order"
3 Dawg Night (2001)

Director:

Steve Wertimer

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Richard Sweren (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

28 November 2001 (Season 12, Episode 9)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

A hip-hop star goes on trial for the murder of a nightclub patron who accused him of being a sellout. |

Plot Keywords:

Law And Order | Irish American Cop | Female District Attorney | Italian American Cop | New York City

Cast

Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Jesse L. Martin	...	Detective Ed Green
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	...	Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Elisabeth Röhm	...	A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn
Dianne Wiest	...	D.A. Nora Lewin
Daniel Hugh Kelly	...	Lawrence Garber
Cyrus Farmer	...	Darryl 'G Train' Collins
Idris Elba	...	Lonnie Liston
Colleen Werthmann	...	Amanda Reese
David Aron Damane	...	James Wilson
Kerry Washington	...	Allie Lawrence
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Khaz B	...	Mack
Linda Cook	...	Sonya Bergman
Geoffrey Ewing	...	Dennis Foster
Je Nie Fleming
Chris Payne Gilbert	...	Ernie Salerno (as Chris Payne)
Jurian Hughes	...	Sarah Kelly
Adriane Lenox	...	Charlene Royal
Ernest Mingione	...	Uniformed Sergeant
Andrea Navedo	...	Detective Ana Cordova
Vince Pacimeo	...	Arraignment Judge Venturelli
Josh Pais	...	Assistant M.E. Borak
Sharrieff Pugh	...	Marcus
Mustafa Shakir	...	Mike
Larry Sherman	...	Judge Colin Fraser
Dorian Spencer	...	Andre

Goofs:

Factual errors: The bodyguard has a Smith and Wesson 9mm, which the detectives suspect is the murder weapon from a night club. Turns out there's a Glock 9mm involved, which is the actual murder weapon. Smiths have a traditional "land and groove" rifling to the barrel. (Imparts spin to the bullet.) Glocks have a spiral hex shaped bore which compresses the bullet. Had the victim been shot with a Glock, the cops would have known immediately the bodyguard's Smith couldn't be the murder weapon.

Movie Connections:

References "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001)