This episode contains a rare scene shot inside of Jack McCoy's apartment.
Prior to 2013, if someone in New York City possessed an unregistered firearm (assuming that the gun was legally purchased, was unmodified, and had an intact serial number) inside their place of residence, they could be charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a class A misdemeanor. However, after new legislation was passed in 2013, if law enforcement finds a unregistered firearm inside someone's residence, they could be charged with criminal possession of a firearm, a class E felony.
This episode appears to be based on the 1958 John Leo Brady/Donald Boblit case. On June 27, 1958, 25-year-old Maryland man John Leo Brady and 24-year-old companion Donald Boblit murdered 53-year-old acquaintance William Brooks. Both men were convicted and sentenced to death. Brady admitted to being involved in the murder, but he claimed that Boblit had done the actual killing and that they had stolen Brooks' car ahead of a planned bank robbery but had not planned to kill him. The prosecution had withheld a written statement by Boblit (the men were tried separately), confessing that he had committed the act of killing by himself. Brady was given a new hearing, where his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Brady was ultimately paroled. He moved to Florida, where he worked as a truck driver, started a family and did not re-offend.
Andrew Polk has played five different roles over the course of the series:
- Episode 7.19 Double Down (1997) - CSU Technician.
- Episode 11.3 Dissonance (2000) - Stuart.
- Episode 13.12 Under God (2003) - Jared Sterling.
- Episode 18.16 Strike (2008) - Bank Manager.
- Episode 20.18 Brazil (2010) - Eli Driscoll.