Four months after this episode aired a similar incident occurred in which a man named Jebidiah James Stipe posed as his ex girlfriend on craigslist and arranged for her assault. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Sprague Grayden previously played a different character. She was Mia Kessler in season 3 Popular (2002).
Judge Koehler (Alan Dale ) says "Quid pro quo" to ADA Cabot. This is Latin for "something for something". The phrase was popularized after it was used in film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Tyler Brunson (Jon Patrick Walker ) says "A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny". This quote is from The Wolf and the Lamb, which is a well-known fable of Aesop. Aesop was a slave and storyteller, who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
A "Huntley Hearing" is a pretrial hearing in New York State, and is requested for the purpose of reviewing the manner in which the police obtained statements from the defendant. The Court must decide whether a defendant's statement should be suppressed or not allowed into evidence. This was established after People v. Huntley (1965).