Do you know which season and episode was this?

@@MandA1900 season 13, episode 7 called “Open season”

She's my favorite defense attorney, I felt bad for her, she sometimes was a pita in the zealous representation of her clients.

Jayne Mansfield it should have gotten an actual ending

@@IWantToMature85 I agree

Zechariah Cameron i wish they went ahead with the 10 episode mini series with jack and mike

So do I

@@KS-qr1ry which Mike? Logan or Cutter?

My only problem is that they almost never let her win. Matter of fact, I can't remember a time where she actually won against McCoy.

@@blppt Well there was the one she got shot and almost murdered....Jack was out for blood when that happened.

Ben Stone leaving the show gave Melnick a great opportunity for a reset. Stone and Melnick (besides her first appearance) were so at odds with each other that it got really boring after a while.

She did. She was still allowed to practice as a lawyer and Avoided jail time.

Don't forget how in Season 3 she tried so hard to get that rapist doctor off the hook.

He did charge her.The girl who shot her was also an extremist

Honey! This is a TV show not real life!

I believe it. It’s probably the only way they keep there sanity

Lawyers want to know the truth so they can help their client the best, attorney client privileges guarentees they can't be subpoenaed to testify against you

I can’t remember where I heard this, but a defense attorney once said “it’s not my job to prove your innocence, it’s my job to get you off”

I saw her in Dancing With Giants and met her after, she is the smallest woman on God's earth. So friendly and talented

even though she made one appearance, I liked the character Sandy Duncan played back in season 5

Jack McCoy got personal with a lot of the other female actors..have no idea why they found him attractive, but it was part of his sleazy character.

@@dianeblack6866 Jack McCoy was a lot of things, but he was never sleazy.

He was far from sleazy, they hinted that he slept with his ADAs but that's it

@@dianeblack6866 What? What show were u watching?

Funny, the dude is on Fear the walking dead, I forget his name

@@juliag.5114 Which dude?

@@zachzabrowski9546her client is John Dorie from Fear the Walking Dead

As Melnick or the same actor playing another character?

@@KasbashPlays yes.

They did interact Stone was still on the show when Melnick first appeared. Pretty sure her first appearance was in the episode where Olivet was raped by her gynecologist in season 3 and she had one more episode alongside him in season 4.

@@jumpupdown2556 IIRC Olivet was raped in S2 not S3.

​@@nicholasmaude6906 It was season 3. Either way Stone was in that episode and they really clashed when Melnick represented the doctor.

@Dave Perez I don't know but I don't think so.

@Dave Perez uh yeah she did actually.

+DorianMichaelsIII 5'3"

He's 6'1, and she's 5'3. Normally, she'd be wearing heels, but it's evening, so the full 10" difference is manifest.

This issue has been discussed numerous times here. Did you read the other comments?

The attorney was conspiring with her client. Attorney client privilege goes down the toilet when they're committing crimes together.

In the world where a defendant attempts to use a lawyer to commit a crime, which was what happened here.

dornravlin Good call!

Different series: that's SVU.

But luckily for you, they're bring back Sam and friends next year for a 21st season.

@@michaelleary9233 didn’t know that. Sounds exciting

@@bradendalhouse7247 Yep, it was just announced yesterday. Dick Wolf finally got his wish to finish it off, after they cancelled it in 2010 after 20 years.

Not if you convince a judge they are engaged in a criminal enterprise

@@StephenMcGann while Preuss was in jail awaiting trial, he was unable to communicate with anyone from the outside world other than his attorney. Yet the prosecutor who put Preuss' leader away for heinous crimes, he was murdered. It was believed Preuss' attorney had been communicating with someone from his organization and told him/her where to find this prosecutor.

Serena got permission from the judge because her bosses were wondering how Danielle's client was communicating with the outside despite the special administrative measures imposed by the judge that presided over Julian Preuss' arraignment.

The defendant had murdered a famous defense attorney and stolen his address book. After he was arrested and remanded to jail, the judge put a special administrative order that he could not have any communication to with the outside world. Earlier in this episode, his attorney (Danielle) violated the order and passed a communication from him to a contact on the outside. The communication ordered the murder of a district attorney in Florida. Danielle didn't know she was doing this. Because they had suspicions that the defendant was using her to commit a crime, that broke the attorney client privilege.

STEVE P in 1 episode it was 100,000

Usually it would be a violation of attorney-client privilege, yes, but the exception is if the attorney is conspiring with the client. In this case melnick was doing something illegal so the privilege was waived.

There are certain exceptions, such as if the communication is being used to commit a criminal act. Which is what happened in this episode.

"That is the ultimate circumstance that no ethical attorney wishes to have themselves put in." - she breached a court order, which are usually in place for good reasons. As she found out, even though she thought they were wrong, those reasons were indeed good, and breaching them led to someone being killed. That's on her.

@@loremipsum3610 Yep. She put her personal feelings above a judge's order.

Obviously they were necessary- did you watch this video? The SAM were circumvented, and an ADA in Florida was killed as a result. I would say they were indeed necessary.

@@yesterdayitrained maybe so but I didn’t see the motions papers and the written ruling

Second McCoy can gather the dragon balls to ressurect the ADA

@@yesterdayitrained third there were other options such as monitoring the defendants phone calls and messages.

If you watched the episode, Serena got permission from a judge to listen in on their conversation because Melnick became a co-conspirator in the death of a prosecuting attorney down south by being the defendant's conduit

Joseph you'll wanna take a remedial class in your armchair attorney school - as pointed out by the DA the privilege vanishes when used to conspire to commit a crime, successful or not (and it WAS successful in this case). Danielle violated court orders.

Privilege should apply no matter what, it’s not the DA’s business

@@josephbalan8384 only if the attorney and her client were not committing crimes.

@@josephbalan8384 if you watched the entire episode, the district attorney was wondering how Danielle's client communicated with the outside the world despite special administrative measures that were imposed by the arraignment judge. The defendant was not to have any contact with anyone from the outside world. During his incarceration, a prosecutor in Florida was executed and Jack and Arthur were wondering why. That is why Arthur recommended that his staff wire up the conference room at Rikers when Danielle met with her client. They did all this with judicial approval none the less.

At the end of the episode, Danielle is wheeled into an ambulance because one of her client's supporters shot her just as she was entering an elevator in her apartment building.

@@irishpogi Oh yeah I remember that... so we never hear what happens to her after that? I seem to remember her using a cane?

@@stancartmankenny In her next TV appearance in Season 14's "City Hall" episode.

@@stancartmankenny McCoy bails her out by getting Preuss to say he forced her into the messages

She makes an appearance in season 16 episode "America Inc." Also in season 17 episode "Good Faith." She also made her only appearance on Law & Order Criminal Intent's final episode "To The Boy WIth The Blue Cap."

Katie Hertfelder I know they were friends from law school or some such.

I have watched every episode--I’m old. Jack only beds his ADA’s. He’s a prosecuting attorney, she’s a defense lawyer. They’ve been in MANY shows opposite each other.

Knowing McCoy, probably. He seems to bed just about every woman he has a history with on the show, lol. Although if Abby hooked up with Jack, she was the one wearing the pants in that encounter.

@@blppt I thought Jack & Abbie had incredible chemistry together

You gotta watch the entire episode to get the context

When a lawyer conspires with a client, it's not protected.

Kris Kross - No, they don’t lie. If they do, they lose their license to practice. In addition, other attorneys learn that their word is no good, and it becomes impossible for them to do business. Defense attorneys are indispensable in our adversary system of justice, which is a bulwark against tyranny.

Wow, you are really one ignorant buffoon, aren't you? "Lawyers don't lie, because that would be WRONG!!" You hear about people this stupid, but to actually come across one is something special...

Kris Kross - Of course, that’s not what I said, but your reliance on dishonest distortion is clearly in character for you. The ignorance here lies in your failure to understand how our system of justice works. The buffoonery lies in your adherence to a tendentious caricature of that system and the professionals who work within it. They’re humans, and you can find instances of all human failings among them - as you can in any profession. But I’ve known many attorneys, and have no doubt that their general level of integrity well exceeds yours.

Yes, well done on finally cracking open that thesaurus your grandmother got you for Christmas, but pulling out a bunch of big words doesn't really win the day for you, sport. Unfortunately for you, it also doesn't obfuscate the fact that you actually did say exactly what I said you did. See, you didn't really have to qualify that you only *knew* lawyers, and weren't one yourself, because I was in absolutely no danger of thinking a lawyer would be so flat-out fucking stupid as to say--and I'm pulling a direct quote from your comment here-- "Lawyers don't lie", and then when called to task for it, say "I didn't say that" and try to call it "dishonest distortion". After this, you then decided to desperately spew out every word on your 2020 Word Of The Day calendar in the hopes that I would be so dazzled and confused by your brilliance as to lose sight of your furious backpedalling. Bad luck for you that you found yourself up against someone far above your intellectual weight class. But please, feel free to try again. 😉

It speaks volumes that your wittiest attempt at a comeback is an “accusation” that I used a thesaurus in writing my response. It certainly wasn’t original of you; it’s a favorite whine of the semiliterate. I use words whose meaning I know; I don’t need to look them up. But it’s amusing that you think of some of my vocabulary as abstruse. And you clearly have a hard time keeping straight what people have said. Your claim that I said, “Lawyers don’t lie, because that would be WRONG,” indicates, at best, hopeless confusion on your part. I said, very plainly, that lawyers don’t lie because it’s professional poison for them. There are also more than a few who don’t lie because (in addition) their moral compass compels them to honesty. In fact, that’s probably the majority of lawyers. And it’s not a hard call, to be blunt, to conclude that most lawyers are fundamentally more honest, trustworthy people than you are. But we don’t need to rely on such subjective judgments; the baseline reality is that the imperatives of self-preservation are sufficient to guarantee that lies in the legal profession are far less common that in most other areas of life. That, of course, doesn’t conform to the lurid fantasies about the legal system that you find more comforting than reality and rigorous thinking. But we could hardly expect a disciplined discussion of policy issues from you.

of all the ADA's, I preferred Abby Carmichael!

@@irishpogi Season 10 had such a great cast of characters. Lennie, Ed, Anita, Jack, Abby, and Adam.

@@niccolovanible1001 I agree

But she was hot! That balanced it out. Lol

She truly was terrible. The part written for her didn't make her look any better but she definitely didn't fit in the show