Aasif Mandvi on tonightâs âLaw & Orderâ

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March 25, 2005

Actor Aasif Mandvi plays the role of irrational Judge Patel on tonightâs episode of âLaw & Order: Trial by Juryâ:

Assistant District Attorneys Kibre (Bebe Neuwirth) and Gaffney (Amy Carlson) prosecute a young nanny Katie (guest star Elizabeth Moss) who is accused of murder for shaking an infant and bashing in her head -- but they run into a stone wall when the presiding Judge Patel (guest star Aasif Mandvi) intentionally blocks every move they make. After Kibre rejects Gaffneyâs desperate offer to resign to blunt the judgeâs irrational ire, they discover the tough defense attorney has coached his client well and intends to point the finger of murder elsewhere. [NBC]

Some argue that placing the word âirrationalâ before âPatelâ is redundant. I must disagree, and for no good reason.

POSTED BY apul @ 7:05 PM

7 comments

1 · deepa on March 25, 2005 7:14 PM · Direct link

So young! And already a judge! Verrry successful! ;)

-D

2 · vakeel on March 25, 2005 7:32 PM · Direct link

kinda ironic - given that there is a real life judge patel who is a bad ass! she was the first woman ever appointed to the federal bench in nocal and was the only woman for eight years.

3 · vinod on March 25, 2005 8:00 PM · Direct link

Pretty cool to see a desi on a law show in a role other than Terrorist defendant. Doubly cool that he's in a rather vaulted position. And potentially triply cool if they show manages to keep his desi-ness from becoming a central plot element. Harold & Judge Kumar?

4 · deepa on March 25, 2005 8:09 PM · Direct link

And she was chief judge! (I think it's now Hon. Vaughn Walker.) Most of us know her from the Napster case. Of course, Hon. Marilyn Hall Patel is white.

-D

5 · vakeel on March 25, 2005 8:17 PM · Direct link

she may be white, but because of her husband and their frequent visits to india, her knowledge of india and desi culture rocks!

6 · sanjay on March 26, 2005 1:19 AM · Direct link

last time i saw an indian guy on court tv it was the one from seinfeld's last show...."very very bad"

7 · Abhijay on March 27, 2005 5:14 PM · Direct link

First he fires Spiderman and now this. Damn. He probably blocks every legal turn because he's a Louise Woodward sympathizer. That was the last time I saw Indians on Court TV (Come quick, Indian!) with our friends the Eappens.

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