Law & Order: Absentia (2003)
- Director(s):
- Martha Mitchell
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The recent, highly publicized arrest of a longtime fugitive from American justice was the evident source of this 2003 Law & Order episode. It all begins with a jewelry-store robbery in which the owner is killed and a customer (Mandy Patinkin) is wounded. A suspect is brought into court, only to be dismissed when the surviving victim fails to show up to testify -- and with good reason: The missing witness is none other than a notorious political activist, who had fled the U.S. years earlier to avoid a murder rap of his own. The question: Can a man who was tried and convicted in absentia still be sent to prison on the basis of the original trial -- or do the detectives and the lawyers have to reopen a case in which most of the evidence is cold and many of the original participants are dead? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Fred Dalton Thompson - DA Arthur Branch
- Jordan Charney - Judge Donald Karan
- Christina Rouner - Anne-Marie Gautreaux
- John Tormey - Will Ashman
- Tracy Sallows - Rosalie Carmody
- Gene Farber - Eddie Travandze
- Lauren Klein - Judge Carla Soloman
- Norma Fire - Appellate Judge Jensen
- Jenny Deller - Marina Travandze
- Sophina Brown - Dana
- J. Bernard Calloway - Corrections Officer
- L.B. Williams - Jury Foreman
- David Chandler
- Mandy Patinkin - Glenn Fordeis aka Levi March
- Andrew McCarthy - Atty. Finnerty
- Jean Brassard - Montreal Detective Rene Faberc
- Shannon Burkett - Carla Baker
- Sara Surrey - Jeanette Gautreaux
- Polly Adams - Gabrielle Simone
- David Lipman - Arraignment Judge Torledsky
- William C. Mitchell - Appellate Judge Connelly
- Tyrone Mitchell Henderson - Timmy Yeats
- James Ryan - Robbie
- Lou Carbonneau - Crime Technician
- Frank Bonsangue - Court Clerk
- Peter Appel
- Director(s):
- Martha Mitchell
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