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Law & Order: Trial By Jury - The Complete Series | 
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Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 558 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: MCAD21350D
UPC: 025192135026
EAN: 0025192135026
ASIN: B000E8JO2S
Theatrical Release Date: March 3, 2005
Release Date: April 25, 2006
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Product Description
Explore the crafting of courtroom strategies with an intimate insiders view into closely guarded defense and prosecution tactics. Includes all 13 fascinating episodes including 1 never-before-seen on network television plus the cross-over law & order: svu episode event! Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Jerry Orbach Fred Dalton Thompson
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There are plenty of things about Law & Order: Trial by Jury, the fourth series and third spinoff (after SVU and Criminal Intent) in executive producer Dick Wolf's popular and reliable franchise, that loyal viewers will find familiar, even comforting. There's the taut, ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling; the Kobe Bryant rape case (in "Pattern of Conduct") and the infamous Amadou Diallo shooting (in "Forty-One Shots") are but two examples among the fourteen episodes in this three-disc set. There are appearances, some of them recurring, by Sam Waterston, Fred Thompson, the late Jerry Orbach (in his final episodes as Det. Lennie Briscoe), and other stalwarts from the original series. There's an SVU "cross-over" episode, and another ("Skeleton") that follows up on the shooting of L & O detective Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin). And then there's the theme music, the intro ("In the criminal justice system")… and that ineffable sound that leads from one scene to another. Yet Trial by Jury also has many aspects that set it apart from the other Law & Order shows. In focusing not on police procedure but on the trial process, it shines a brighter light on the defendants (who in most cases have already been apprehended when an episode starts), the juries (including the selection process, deliberations, and the role of jury consultants), the various lawyers' strategies, and even the judges' personal opinions. All of that leads to some interesting situations, like the scene in "Forty-One Shots" that finds a group of policemen, barred from the courtroom for making a disturbance during the trial of a cop killer, waiting anxiously outside for the verdict. Nevertheless, there are reasons why Trial by Jury failed to connect with viewers, airing for just two months in 2005 before being canceled by NBC. The cast is one of them; for example, A.D.A. Tracey Kibre (Bebe Neuwirth), the lead prosecutor, is tough but not especially likable. More than that, with its predilection for tight close-ups, personal details, melodrama, and such, the series is simply too much like standard nighttime TV fare. Good but not great, Law & Order: Trial by Jury (the set includes a few deleted scenes and a short featurette) will certainly have its adherents, but it falls a little short of its distinguished predecessors. --Sam Graham
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 Law & Order Trial by Jury September 10, 2008
Elizabeth M. Ward (Shelford, Victoria Australia)
Another excellent series of this top show. Law and Order Trial by Jury doesn't disappoint their fans! All the favorite and new characters which make you want to cheer them on. Frustrating at times but justice does prevail. Would highly recommend this series and wish they could do another in the near future.
Addictive August 2, 2008
B. Schubert (Melbourne, Australia)
I bought this series cheap and it's one of my best purchases to date. Yes, i'm a fan of the other L&O programs but somehow i'd missed this series. Like others i wish i hadn't as it may still be on now. A different formula to the others in the franchise yet still (reassuringly) familiar. Bebe Neuwirth is good but just not perfect for the lead role..my only criticism. Beware, highly addicitve and then you realise it's only one series. Sad really.
Law and Order: The One That (Sadly) Didn't Make It. February 4, 2008
Eric Pregosin (New Carrollton, Maryland United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Since 1990, despite many cast changes, NBC's longest running drama series Law and Order has kept us interested in the inside and out of crime on the streets of my beloved homeland New York City. The original series introduced the show's concept, the police investigations for half the show and the D.A.'s prosecution the accused for the second half. As years passed, the show became more 60/40 sometimes 70/30 in favor of 1 half of the cast (sometimes the cops, sometimes the D.A.'s). In 1999, Special Victims Unit focussed on a team of sex crime investigators and the D.A. assigned to tackle those cases. In 2001, Criminal Intent, brought us a chance to see the 1 thing I thought we would never see in a cop show. We learn from the start who done it, the cops and D.A. spend the episode trying to decipher WHY he or she did it. Now in 2005, Trial By Jury was to bring the next logical step. The accused had been already scheduled for trial, now the cops and D.A.'s spent the early stages of the show preparing and interviewing their witness list followed by the trial itself. Sadly the series was cancelled after it's introductory 3 month season, with the death of Jerry Orbach who was retired off the parent series, so he could be helpful for this series. Apparantly, the powers that be had thought so well of his character from the parent series (which he joined the cast of in 1992) that he would be able to help this series get off the ground. Unfortunately, after episode 2 he was dead, so the series continued without him but was cancelled before the last episode and worse yet, not renewed. The final episode was eventually aired when the late Court TV ran a full day marathon of the entire series and fortunately for us was included in this set. My only grievance with this set is this. Like the other spinoffs, this series had crossover episodes with other Law and Order series. One episode had its "part 1" on Special Victims Unit and concluded here. We get both parts of the story in this set, although I am certain the original "part 1" story is included in the respective SVU season set. However, another crossover is made with the parent series. The original episode aired not long after Orbach left the series and was replaced by Dennis Farina. For this crossover, we are only given the second half of the story. Why the manufacturer gave us 1 crossover in its entirety but not the other, is unfair. If they give us the complete story (both the "part 1" episode and the "part 2" (Trial By Jury) episode, in the respective Law and Orer season set, I will get on their case later. In any event, since this show was so short, I would make sure you get it whether you intend to buy the other 3 series or not. It is still "New York's finest" at their best, and we are not likely to see its like again.
Trial by Jury... July 10, 2007
Michelle Polk (Mississippi, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good Law and Order series but not as good as the original one or the subsequent followers. The whole story is what is missing even though the end result is just as important.
Good series,but it has it's problems June 7, 2007
Willie Montgomery (Denmark,South Carolina)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first became a fan of the Law and Order franchise when I watched the first series of the original.Then came Criminal Intent followed by SVU.I was getting hooked on the real life Crime and Punishment and I wondered why the plug was pulled.Trial by Jury was good,but it had its flaws.I'm more of a fan of the original and SVU.When Dennis Farina was brought in to replace Jerry Orbach,I thought it was a very good decision.But I was sadden Dennis Farina left the series.He and Jesse Martin's character were a good formula.Despite massive cast changes the franchise will survive.There have been a lot of talk the Law and Order franchise is in a big rivalry with the CSI franchise.This would make great TV.I watch Law and Order because I get into the story faster than CSI.When I am writing my novels I watch the Law and Order episodes,it helps with my writers'block.
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