For Love or Money

This episode appears to be based on the Debra Hartmann case.

While reading the verdict the jury foreman says that the charge is "homicide in the first degree", it should have been "murder in the first degree." Homicide and murder are not the same thing, murder is a type of criminal charge resulting from one person intentionally causing the death of another person, whereas homicide is just a manner of death. Whenever a person dies as a result of the actions of another person, whether it be from a negligent or reckless action that unintentionally causes a death or from an action that was intended to cause death, that person's death is ruled to be a homicide. The criminal charges for a homicide include (from least severe to worst): criminally negligent homicide, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter in the second degree (involuntary), vehicular manslaughter in the first degree, aggravated manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter in the first degree (voluntary), aggravated manslaughter in the first degree, murder in the second degree, aggravated murder and murder in the first degree.