The defendant was tried on charges of murder in the second degree. However considering the manner in which the victim was killed: stabbed and then stoned, which is a slow and excruciatingly painful death, he should have been charged with murder in the first degree. New York Penal Code, Article 125, Section 27, Subsection 10 states: "A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner in a course of conduct that intended to inflict torture upon the victim prior to intentionally causing the victim's death."
(At 6:46) The home phone number listed on Nafeesa Amir's Hanford University profile shows only two digits for the area code, rather than the required three.
When Detectives Munch and Tutuola first talk to Daoud Tarzi he is on his way out of his apartment. After he shuts his door he takes his keys out of his pocket to lock the door, however he does not actually insert the key into the keyhole, he just holds the key in front of the hole and turns it.
When the detectives arrest the first suspect, the handcuffs are not around his wrists - he is just holding the cuffs in his hands.
The victim supposedly attended the fictitious "Hanford University," but when the police visit "Hanford" to question her acquaintances there's a long shot of the school's library building with its real name, Columbia University.
During the opening credits, three guest stars are listed: Harvey Atkin, James Murtaugh, and Marshall Manesh. Two other guest stars are listed, then Atkin, Murtaugh, and Manesh are listed again. The dvd version has no such errors.
When the victim is loaded in the ambulance and the screen goes dark, you hear the ambulance siren start and then you hear the officer hit the rear door to let the driver know he can take off.
In a scene supposedly set at Hanford University, a sign can be seen reading "The Library of Columbia University".
When Stabler reads out loud from the computer screen, he says that the victim is 23. However, when the camera cuts to the computer screen, the record says that she is 22.
Not once during the episode is the mother's hijab wrapped correctly. In fact, in the middle of the episode, around 25:40, when the camera zooms in on the mother, it looks as if they used double sided tape to secure the fabric to her forehead. They also went back and forth between all of her face (except her eyes) being covered and her face fully uncovered. If she was wearing her hijab, at home, with primarily only her eyes showing, it is highly unlikely she would expose her entire face during the court scene at the end.