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Detective Mariluz Rivera is a fictional character portrayed by Selenis Leyva in the TV series Law & Order.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Refuge: Part 2 (season 9), they were 27 years old.
They appear in 23 episodes out of a total of 501 aired so far

Detective Mariluz Rivera

by Selenis Leyva

character

Episodes23

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    Refuge: Part 2
    episode S9.E24 may 1999
    Hitmen reach the last witness in the Russian mob case, which leads to the discovery of a money laundering scheme. And a related bomb scare at the police precinct forces McCoy to defy Schiff and go all out to prosecute the offenders.
  • 7.2
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    Sunday in the Park with Jorge
    episode S11.E11 january 2001
    A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?
  • 7.5
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    Veteran's Day
    episode S14.E15 february 2004
    An angry veteran whose son died in Iraq claims extreme emotional disturbance after he is charged with killing a young Iraq War protester he thought was provoking him.
  • 8
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    The Brotherhood
    episode S15.E3 september 2004
    A prison guard is charged with killing a released member of a white supremacist prison gang. The guard says the victim threatened him and his family. The gang also threatens the judge presiding over the trial.
  • 7.7
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    Cut
    episode S15.E6 october 2004
    A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide.
  • 7.6
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    Gov Love
    episode S15.E7 november 2004
    McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant.
  • 7.4
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    All in the Family
    episode S15.E9 november 2004
    A diamond broker's wife is accused of hiring Russian mobsters to arrange a hit on her husband.
  • 7.7
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    Fixed
    episode S15.E11 december 2004
    A frustrated prison social worker is accused of taking the law into her own hands with a dangerous man whom she knew was violating the terms of his parole agreement.
  • 7.4
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    Ain't No Love
    episode S15.E13 january 2005
    A young hip-hop performer is accused of murdering a rap mogul, but his friend testifies during the trial that he is the killer. Serena objects to prosecution tactics, and Branch fires her.
  • 7.4
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    The Sixth Man
    episode S15.E16 february 2005
    A hot-tempered basketball star is accused of killing one of his hecklers. The investigation and trial, however, reveal that the heckler's pattern of harassment may have crossed the line of decency on several occasions.
  • 7.6
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    Sects
    episode S15.E19 march 2005
    A murder/attempted suicide investigation leads to a religious cult that promotes pedophilia, but finding charges that will stick to the group's leader proves to be difficult.
  • 8
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    Tombstone
    episode S15.E20 april 2005
    A lawyer from a prestigious corporate law firm is murdered. One of the firm's senior partners is reluctant to testify against the accused for selfish reasons. Detective Green is critically wounded escorting a reluctant witness.
  • 7.4
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    In God We Trust
    episode S15.E23 may 2005
    A man confesses to a nine-year-old racially motivated murder. His defense attorney argues that he should not be punished because he is a born-again Christian and has already done his penance.
  • 7.5
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    Locomotion
    episode S15.E24 may 2005
    A failed suicide attempts leads to a train crash that kills 12 people. The defendant's attorney initially offers an insanity defense. However, he is soon fired, as the defendant represents himself and changes his plea.
  • 8.4
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    Red Ball
    episode S16.E1 september 2005
    When a little girl is abducted as part of a car-jacking, McCoy must bargain with the devil in the form of a system-savvy criminal.
  • 7.3
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    Age of Innocence
    episode S16.E4 october 2005
    The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.
  • 7.8
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    Birthright
    episode S16.E6 november 2005
    A nurse is accused of performing illegal sterilizations on troubled teens without their knowledge, which resulted in the death of one of her patients.
  • 7.3
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    House of Cards
    episode S16.E7 november 2005
    A single mother is killed and her baby stolen, and police find the child with a woman who took the baby while pretending to be pregnant.
  • 7.7
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    New York Minute
    episode S16.E8 november 2005
    The murder of a trucker blows open a case involving illegal trafficking and the citizen border patrol
  • 7.3
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    Bible Story
    episode S16.E11 december 2005
    A synagogue's Chumash is stolen and desecrated, and the crime must be solved before a religious war breaks out in downtown Manhattan.
  • 7.6
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    Kingmaker
    episode S16.E20 may 2006
    A paper reveals the identity of an undercover officer, getting her killed, and the trail may lead to a politician's office.
  • 7.5
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    Corner Office
    episode S17.E10 december 2006
    A high-end escort is arrested for the murder of a lawyer tied to a corporate scandal and scheduled to testify before Congress. But somebody other than the victim may have been paying for her services.
  • 7.6
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    Boy on Fire
    episode S20.E14 march 2010
    Two teens from an underachieving high school are accused of burning to death a student from a more successful charter school, and Lupo and Bernard suspect that their principal is providing them with a phony alibi.