Nope. They just forgot.
They also forgot they need to prosecute the “real killer”.
You know, pre-reboot, sometimes, guilty people got way with it. It was the way the show ran. Like real life. This modern reboot no longer feels like real life.
Head slap- Doh!
I can think of a couple errors in the show’s heyday, too.
No doubt. But the writing seemed better.
A couple of times in the old series they had two suspects and couldn’t decide which one was guilty; in those cases, the episode closed without a resolution other than “We did our best”
I remember one of those, involving the bombing of an army recruiting station.
Bumped to note that in the most recent episode, the ME was the same character from FBI: Dr Mosbach.
It’s more than Rogers crossing between the three L&O family, this is crossing to another completely different Wolf series. I guesss that means FBI is now part of the Tommyverse. 
In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who are related to the suspects and the district attorneys who are related to (or are dating) the victims or expert witnesses. These are their stories
Yeah, whew. These last few episodes have been a slog. Have they run out of stories to tell?
“And this time, it’s personal” is a sure sign the writers have run out of ideas- even with the “Headlines”- and this is important- you can NOT work any case where you have a relative etc involved. A Good Defense will get all your testimony and evidence thrown out as clearly biased.
Maybe a partner, sure.
Yep.
Most recent episode shows they need someone who knows something about guns. A small caliber pistol was used in a killing, and shell casings were recovered. But then they say the “pin markings on the slugs”… but slugs dont have pin markings- the shells do.
Then they have issues proving the gun recovered was the murder weapon- turned out the killer switched the barrels , so the slug marking dont match. Great and a good idea, crime-wise. But the PIN markings would be the same, and altho Pin markings on a cartridge are not as solid as riling on a slug, they have been used as evidence. Solid evidence, not used here -and not used a few times before.
Also when bring up the changed barrels the Defense claims the defendant was no criminal master mind, how could they have thought of that? But there is evidence they bought the new barrel, why not mention that?
Finally saw this new one.
I was never a fan of the episode Gunshow, where McCoy successfully prosecutes the manufacturer of a weapon used in a murder, for murder. (Set aside by the judge, but still. McCoy attacked and won).
But I could really see the same thing happening here. Get a ADA with a spine (not Price, of course) and prosecute the memorybot people for manipulating the wife to commit murder. I can even hear the arguments in my head, how their algorithm was reckless and advocated for murder. Carver got an indictment in CI on a chatroom owner that supported suicide, for murder. It could happen.
It’s more like the episode in which knock-off Facebook connects an angry teenage girl with a questionably sane weirdo, so weirdo can kill girl’s mom, or the one in which a stalker gets help from a cyber-stalking firm (where Ted Mosby worked), or the one where the toxic virus was bought with a fake doctor’s letterhead and a PO box. All cases where Jack convicted the killer and dealt with the company as well