Guest Saidah Arrika Ekulona is excellent as the witness to a brutal rape. What makes her character so engaging is that she herself was the victim of repeated rapes and other horrors in her native African Congo. When the actress appears on the witness stand close to the episode's end, she delivers an emotional testimony that tears at the viewer's heart, making one think of the inhumanities suffered by women throughout the world.
Diora Baird brings sympathy as the victim who, at first, is thought to be overreacting but succumbs to an infection she received as the result of a cut made during the rape. The character's demise adds charges against the accused rapist, played with seedy relish by Eric Lange.
Stephanie March, who plays ADA Cabot, is equally as good and this installment marks her second departure from the role.
Hopefully, this, like her first "exit" will be short-lived. March will definitely be missed.
In addition to these two women, Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse is fine in her fifth appearance as Judge Andrews.
Diora Baird brings sympathy as the victim who, at first, is thought to be overreacting but succumbs to an infection she received as the result of a cut made during the rape. The character's demise adds charges against the accused rapist, played with seedy relish by Eric Lange.
Stephanie March, who plays ADA Cabot, is equally as good and this installment marks her second departure from the role.
Hopefully, this, like her first "exit" will be short-lived. March will definitely be missed.
In addition to these two women, Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse is fine in her fifth appearance as Judge Andrews.