Defense attorney Bayard Ellis is featured in season 13 of “True Believers.” He is said to be a powerful defender who has turned his attention to the disadvantaged and minorities, making him a civil rights activist. In “True Believers,” he defends a black man who is on trial for assaulting a girl in his apartment, citing poor police procedures and the victim`s appreciative procedures for obtaining a verdict of not guilty. At the end of this episode, he has a discussion with Detective Benson on the steps of the courthouse. After Benson blames him for shaming the girl on the stand, he tells her she needs an escape and gives her his card telling him to come to one of his daughter`s softball games. In the episode “Spiraling Down”, Benson gives Ellis` card to the defendant`s wife, whose husband is a former football star who suffers from poor performance. He defends the former football star and receives an acquittal. Benson also calls Ellis when his half-brother needs legal help after his children are removed from town. Benson and Ellis became close, leading to a conflict in the episode “Justice Denied” as Ellis defends a man who forced Benson to confess eight years earlier. David Haden, the prosecutor who is re-examining the case and Benson`s love interest, is confronted by Ellis about their relationship and threatens to expose him if they haven`t done the right thing.
Benson asks Ellis to give her some time to find the real rapist, which she does, or she will talk to the prosecutor about her relationship with EADA Haden. Ellis returns in the season 14 episode “Monster`s Legacy” when Detective Benson asks him to investigate the case of Reggie Rhodes (Mike Tyson), who is to be executed after his murder conviction in Ohio. Benson is able to get Rhodes to admit that he was abused as a child by the head of a camp in New York, allowing Ellis to argue that Rhodes` original defense attorney never presented this during the trial. Ellis discovers a massive cover-up by the lead prosecutor in the original case, who has retained photographic evidence that Rhodes was sexually assaulted by the man he murdered. Ellis then convinces the judge to spare Rhodes from execution. Ellis is the next in the episode “Perverted Justice” of the 16th. Season when he comes to see Benson and SVU and asks them to re-investigate a case he is working on for Project Innocence. With the help of Captain Cragen, now retired, Ellis is able to quash the original charge against his client for raping his daughter decades earlier.
In the next episode of “Ace”, Marlowe and Captain Cragen clash over how to deal with a case in which a baby trafficking ring is discovered and a young woman and her baby are in danger. Marlowe orders Benson and Stabler to catch the ring leader in the act, while Cragen wants ESU to take the author to his camp. Cragen remarked to Marlowe, “You`re the boss of the court lawyer, not here.” Marlowe leaves the compound only for Cragen to follow her outside, where he reminds her “why she really retired in 1995”: When she was a lieutenant, she had sent two undercover investigators who later died to stop a killer at the wheel. Marlowe replied that it was a “command decision.” Cragen`s detectives arrest the ringleader, while Cragen rescues the young woman from the warehouse. Marlowe is able to convict the chief using the testimony of his maternity doctor that he gave in the judge`s chambers to protect himself. Odafin “Fin” Tutuola is a sergeant in the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. He grew up in Harlem and served in the U.S. Army, where he fought in Mogadishu.
[2] [3] Tutuola, an undercover former drug detective, replaced Monique Jeffries after leaving the police in 2000. He stopped using narcotics after his partner was shot. He initially has a difficult relationship with his CSR colleagues, especially his partner John Munch and Olivia Benson. He sees the world in black and white, with all criminals equally worthy of prison, regardless of extenuating circumstances. He also keeps his emotions under control and refuses to talk about his problems or admit that the horrible nature of his work often affects him. He rarely talks about his private life and only reveals to his fellow detectives in the sixth season that he has a son. Over the course of the series, he gets closer to Munch and even saves Benson from rape while they were both infiltrated in Season 9. However, he also clashes more often with his colleague Elliot Stabler. Starting with the episode “Screwed” of the 8th season, he is assigned to Chester Lake as a new partner. After Lake kills a suspect, Stabler accuses Tutuola of warning him before he is taken into custody and verifies his phone records.Tutuola admits he called Lake, but says he didn`t expect him to run. Stabler virtually apologizes for not trusting him, but Tutuola rejects his apology because he believes Stabler will always be the same “bulldog.” After that, he asks for a transfer of the team, but the man in charge of the transfers is a former colleague of Tutuola who resents him. Tutuola decides to “get stuck” and his captain Don Cragen orders him to investigate a case with Stabler, whom he calls a “head” and “grumpy balls”. Over time, Tutuola warmed up again at Stabler, a point emphasized in the 11th century episode “Solitaire.” Staffel was proven when a suspect throws Stabler from a roof, Tutuola almost strangles the suspect for attacking his “friend”. But Greylek also has a softer side when she warns Stabler to get a good defense attorney after her daughter Kathleen (Allison Siko), who has bipolar disorder, is charged with burglary and trespassing and theft because the DA office is going to sue her. Greylek is also rushing to seek justice for three women who were drugged and raped by a pornography-obsessed man in the episode “Smut.” Greylek is also seeking justice when a man is brutally beaten outside a strip club, with the man`s ex-wife and her 13-year-old transgender daughter being the prime suspect. Gillian “Gill” Hardwicke was SVU`s lead ADA in Season 12. It is a Brooklyn ADA that is moving to Manhattan SVU because of its great admiration for Detectives Benson and Stabler. She replaces Mikka Von (Paula Patton), who was fired after a single case with the SVU team. Hardwicke has a 92% conviction rate, as she explained in her first episode “Branded.” She often comes into conflict with Benson and Stabler; with Benson about a case in which a woman was raped as a teenager and she began to take revenge on her attackers and mark them with warm hangers. She and Benson also clash when Vivian Arliss (Maria Bello) — who has given Benson custody of her son Calvin (Charlie Tahan) — is suspected in a series of burglaries. Hardwicke and Stabler come into conflict over a case in which a boy named Nicky Roberts (Al Calderon) allegedly shot his abusive father-in-law; She is eventually forced to drop the case because Nicky and his mother Sandra (Drea de Matteo) admit to killing him, raising reasonable doubts for both of them.
In “Penetration,” Hardwicke convicts a man who raped FBI agent Dana Lewis (Marcia Gay Harden) while she was undercover, on the orders of Brian Ackerman (J.C. MacKenzie), the leader of a white racial group, who is angry with Lewis for killing his son Kyle in the season 7 episode “Raw.” Monique Jeffries was a police detective at the Special Victims Unit in Manhattan and was one of the first female detectives in the SVU squad. At the beginning of the series, she worked with various detectives, including Brian Cassidy. Initially, she can only be seen at the head office, does research and appears in court in various cases to represent the ministry. After Cassidy`s release in the middle of the first season, she works with Detective Munch and begins investigating. Soon after, she is physically and mentally shaken when a car explodes while chasing a fleeing suspect. Surviving the incident makes her feel “restless” and she has a one-night stand with a man she recognized as a suspect in an earlier sexual assault case the unit had investigated. After confessing this to a departmental psychiatrist who works for a commission that investigates problems in various police units, she is released from active duty and ordered to seek treatment. Captain Don Cragen, who believes she has become “ruthless” and “a danger” to herself, supports the decision.
At the end of the first episode of season 2, Detective Fin Tutuola shows up in the SVU area and Jeffries asks her if she can help him.
