Season 2 Episode 17, Sisters of Mercy

Good episode.

From IMDb: A teenage drug addict claims that a nun molested her at a treatment house, but the investigation leads an accusation of rape involving the chief executive of the facility.

A young teenage runaway is arrested after discharging a gun in a diner. Cerreta and Logan look into the reasons why she had run away and learn that she had been raped at the halfway house she had been staying in. The investigation leads to a free thinking nun and the caretaker of the halfway house.

Season 2 Episode 13, Severance

From IMDb: Stone and Robinette go after a defense contractor, as well as his lawyer and the hit-man he allegedly hired, after two men are killed and a whistle-blower who planned to testify against him goes missing.

Season 2 Episode 12, Star Struck

An insanity trial. A mentally ill man attacks an actress and nearly kills her because he is "in love" with her and he hears a voice in his head telling him that if he can't get her he must kill her. The girl is very afraid and pleads with Stone to get the man convicted for maximum sentence because he had accosted her several times in the past and would do so in the future if left walking in the world. Stone struggles with making a case because juries are hard to convince of a crime on part of mentally ill. Towards the end in the trial Stone asks the man: if you get an apportunity would you still like to talk to her? Pursue her?.. etc., and he said:  yes, nothing is changed. That's what was needed. The jury convicts him for attempted murder after Stone's speech to them.

Good points: The way Stone first asks the above mentioned questions to the defendant followed by a speech to the jury that wins him the conviction for the defendant. After the trial on their way out, however, Stone expresses his unhappiness to Robinette, saying: the man should be in hospital, we put him in jail.

Season 2 Episode 11, His Hour Upon the Stage

IMDb: The frozen body of a Broadway producer is found five years after his death. Stone suspects that a show investor and the producer's fiancée actress were involved, but time makes it more difficult to find a motive.

Season 2 Episode 10, Heaven

Not a significant episode in my view.

IMDb summary: An arson at an Hispanic social club that killed 53 people is related to a powerful Cuban, an INS agent, and the sale of fake green cards.

Season 2 Episode 9, Renunciation

A boy hits his teacher's husband with a car and kills him. He and the teacher are in an affair. The woman wanted her husband to die because he had a lot of debt and after catching her with the boy in their house was filing for divorce by which she would inherit his debt. She used the boy to kill the husband. At first the boy is a suspect and a defendant. In the end the boy's story of the teacher planning to kill the husband finds corroboration. The boy's lawyer gets a deal for a lesser charge and the episode ends with the teacher being arrested with murder.

Good point: No significant good points. Interesting to watch how the woman manipulates the boy into committing the crime exploiting his emotions about love/lust.

Season 2 Episode 8, Out of Control

Rape case. A girl is raped at a party to which her boyfriend/fiancé who had broken up with her recently had invited her, to have sex with a group of his friends. Their break up was a result of the guy coming to know about the girl's promiscuous sexual history. His interaction with the girl about her coming to the party to have sex with his friends was a joke on the girl's part, however it, coupled with her sexual history makes her case difficult.

Stone makes a good case against the defendants, however the jury acquits them. Stone is disappointed and tells the girl that jury made a mistake and the system failed her. He was sorry.

I personally didn't like this episode for showing that Stone thought the jury gave wrong judgement, and for thinking that the girl was innocent on the first place. A drunk girl is accountable for her actions just as a drunk driver is accountable for his. A promiscuous girl who makes a joke that "she will have sex with guys at the party and the guys would love her dress if they love little girls", and goes to the party where she will get drunk unconscious, is definitely putting herself in harm's way, and is supposed to know that, and be responsible about it - and is at least equally responsible if she gets raped.

Good point: The jury found her guilty.