Law & Order Episode 17.13 Talking Points

STUDENT SHOT DURING ASSEMBLY FOR RIGHT-WING POLITICAL SPEAKER; RON SILVER GUEST-STARS -- Judith Barlow (guest star Charlotte Ross, "NYPD Blue"), a controversial speaker participates in a question-and-answer at Gramercy College when the stage is mobbed, a gun is fired and one student is found dead. Detective Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin) and Nina Cassady (Milena Govich) question the victims friend Malcolm Yates (guest star Louis Cancelmi), an older PhD student who creates human embryos to harvest stem cells. It is discovered that Yates has Parkinson's disease and finds Barlow's tactics as a direct threat to his job and life. Yates' attorney, Bernie Adler (guest star Ron Silver, "The West Wing"), infuriates the jury and the judge the trial.