Law & Order Talking Points

Episode Description

Judith Barlow, a controversial speaker participates in a Question and Answer at Grammercy college when the stage is mobbed. Someone in the crowd fires a gun, leaving one student dead. Detectives Ed Green and Nina Cassady question the victim's friend Malcolm Yates, an older PhD student who creates human embryos to harvest stem cells. It is discovered that Yates has Parkinson's disease and finds Barlow's tactics as a direct threat to his job and life. Yates' attorney, Bernie Adler, is from the ACLU, during the trial he infuriates the jury by calling everyone racial epithets, which angers the judge.