Viola Davis plays a defense attorney in this episode, and several others. She later stars as defense attorney and law professor on How to Get Away with Murder (2014).
Penelope Fielding (Deirdre Lovejoy ) says "Her statement's full of elliptical pauses". The term "elliptical pauses" is not used in Psychology. Elliptical language has parts missing, so that it is sometimes difficult to understand. "Ellipsis" is also the name of the punctuation mark ("..."), used to indicate a long pause or a speech trailing off, which is probably where the writers got the idea from.
Donna Emmett (Viola Davis ) says "The prosecution violated Brady". The Brady doctrine is a pretrial discovery rule, that was established by the United States Supreme Court in Brady v. Maryland (1963). The rule requires that the prosecution must turn over all exculpatory evidence to the defendant in a criminal case. Exculpatory evidence, is evidence that might exonerate the defendant.
Casey Novak (Diane Neal ) sarcastically says "Oh, the O.J. defense. That's original". This is in reference to the June 12, 1994, murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Brown was previously married to O.J. Simpson. The prosecution's DNA test results indicated that O.J. Simpson's blood was found on a rear gate at the murder scene, and that Brown's blood was found on socks taken by police from Simpson's residence. The defense suggested in their opening statement that the police had planted this evidence, using known blood samples from Nicole Brown Simpson and O.J. In 1997, a civil jury unanimously found O.J responsible for the deaths of Goldman and Brown.