This episode is based on the Sol Wachtler which stunned the legal and political world of New York State. Sol Wachtler was the Chief Judge of the Court Of Appeals and he threatened a woman who wanted to break off an affair he was having. You think that people who reach his kind of pinnacle are above such things. We learn time and again they are not.
A threatening message in a disguised voice demanding extortion and later a VHS tape of the child of Jane Kaczmarek threatening kidnap is sent to Kaczmarek. The apprehension of a lowlife who was hired to pick up a ransom left in a Central Park trash bin and a logo he recognized on the car of the man who hired him and the good work of the police lab technicians lead to the arrest of Apellate Court Judge David Groh.
To make matters more complicated Jill Hennessy before she joined the DA's office worked for Groh and had an affair with him which she broke off and left him and her job with him. As she said she hoped that she could keep that a secret, but who could ever figure this man would do what he did no matter how much of a satyr he was and how much of a satyr's ego he had.
Jill Hennessy resigns from the DA's office and as a private citizen is actually better able to help the case.
Groh is a frightening figure in both the power he wields and his monstrous ego.
Not a story we can forget either this episode or Sol Wachtler in real life.
A threatening message in a disguised voice demanding extortion and later a VHS tape of the child of Jane Kaczmarek threatening kidnap is sent to Kaczmarek. The apprehension of a lowlife who was hired to pick up a ransom left in a Central Park trash bin and a logo he recognized on the car of the man who hired him and the good work of the police lab technicians lead to the arrest of Apellate Court Judge David Groh.
To make matters more complicated Jill Hennessy before she joined the DA's office worked for Groh and had an affair with him which she broke off and left him and her job with him. As she said she hoped that she could keep that a secret, but who could ever figure this man would do what he did no matter how much of a satyr he was and how much of a satyr's ego he had.
Jill Hennessy resigns from the DA's office and as a private citizen is actually better able to help the case.
Groh is a frightening figure in both the power he wields and his monstrous ego.
Not a story we can forget either this episode or Sol Wachtler in real life.