Homicide: Life on the Street
Self Defense
Season 7, Episode 18 · Aired 1999-04-09
Synopsis
An assistant U.S. attorney confesses to killing her ex-husband, but claims battered-spouse syndrome as her defense.
In the series
This episode is part of Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) on NBC.
Baltimore detectives, handheld grit, and cases that don’t tidy up for sweeps.
Key cast
- Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton
- Yaphet Kotto as Al Giardello
- Kyle Secor as Tim Bayliss
- Richard Belzer as John Munch
- Clark Johnson as Meldrick Lewis
- Melissa Leo as Kay Howard