Zuma Canyon

Episode aired Apr 11, 2011
TV-14TV-14
1h

8.1/10

S1.E9

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Teri Polo in Law & Order: Los Angeles (2010)

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Detective Winters is killed while investigating a Mexican cartel responsible for a massacre at a Quinceanera, and Morales tries to get the DA's office to cash in every favor possible to guar... Read allDetective Winters is killed while investigating a Mexican cartel responsible for a massacre at a Quinceanera, and Morales tries to get the DA's office to cash in every favor possible to guarantee justice.Detective Winters is killed while investigating a Mexican cartel responsible for a massacre at a Quinceanera, and Morales tries to get the DA's office to cash in every favor possible to guarantee justice.

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Skeet Ulrich, Teri Polo, and Caitlin Carmichael in Law & Order: Los Angeles (2010)

Caitlin Carmichael and Teri Polo on set of Law & Order: Los Angeles February 2011

Caitlin Carmichael and Skeet Ulrich on set of Law & Order: Los Angeles February 2011

Caitlin Carmichael on set of Law & Order: Los Angeles February 2011

Skeet Ulrich

Detective Rex Wintersas Detective Rex Winters

Corey Stoll

Detective Tomas Jaruszalskias Detective Tomas Jaruszalski

Rachel Ticotin

Lieutenant Arleen Gonzalezas Lieutenant Arleen Gonzalez

Regina Hall

Evelyn Priceas Evelyn Price

Mark Parra

Joseas Jose

Alfred Molina

Senior D.D.A. Ricardo Moralesas Senior D.D.A. Ricardo Morales

Peter Coyote

D.A. Jerry Hardinas D.A. Jerry Hardin

Teri Polo

Casey Wintersas Casey Winters

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Cesar Vargasas Cesar Vargas

Al Espinosa

Consul Ortegaas Consul Ortega

Quinton Lopez

Fernando Ramirezas Fernando Ramirez

Ray Santiago

Ray Motaas Ray Mota

Victor Rivers

Mexican Consular Officialas Mexican Consular Official

Charles Rahi Chun

Mitch Pellingtonas Mitch Pellington

Ashley Bravo

Liana Alcazaras Liana Alcazar

Angela Bullock

Judge Ellen Fabricantas Judge Ellen Fabricant

Caitlin Carmichael

Lily Wintersas Lily Winters

Mario Cortez

Uni Translatoras Uni Translator

Businessman Alcazar's family and guests are shot by masked men at his daughter's 15 birthday party. He recently conceived and abandoned a real estate deal in a canyon valley, where the team finds a huge marijuana field and a scared-stiff, abuse-trained Mexican 'watchman', Fernando Ramirez. They trace it to a Mexican drug cartel, but the fiends find and murder Rex at home. Deputy D.A. Ricardo Morales spare no effort or risk in the case, but ends up resigning after the D.A. cuts his losses, having had to call markers to get past a Mexican consul in cahoots and offer the whole Ramirez family 'political asylum', only to lose the crucial testimony in a spectacularly cruel way. —KGF Vissers

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Trivia
Detective Rex Winters was murdered on January 10, 2011.

Goofs
ADA Morales says that they cannot refile charges against Cesar Vargas after the judge dismissed the charges due to insufficient evidence. However jeopardy had not yet attached to Vargas' case, in a jury trial jeopardy attaches when the jury is empaneled and sworn in. Fernando Ramirez was murdered during a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the state had sufficient evidence to bind Vargas over for a trial by jury, Morales even said as much during his opening statement just seconds before the judge's law clerk got the call notifying the judge about Fernando being killed. The process of jury selection doesn't start until the judge rules that the prosecution has sufficient evidence to go to trial, and once that happens there can be as much as a few weeks in between starting the jury selection process and the jury being selected and sworn in. So this case was nowhere near having jeopardy attach to it. If/when additional evidence was found tying Vargas to the murder of Detective Winters and the Alcazar family, Morales would of been free to rearrest Vargas and refile murder charges against him.