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Judge Lena Petrovsky is a fictional character portrayed by Joanna Merlin in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Legacy (season 2), they were 69 years old.
They appear in 43 episodes out of a total of 551 aired so far

Judge Lena Petrovsky

by Joanna Merlin

character

Episodes43

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    Legacy
    episode S2.E4 november 2000
    A 7-year-old girl lapses into a coma and the detectives investigate the members of her family to determine who's responsible for the abuse.
  • 7.7
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    Asunder
    episode S2.E7 december 2000
    A woman accuses her husband, a cop, of raping her. When Benson and Stabler arrest him, he denies his wife's claims and claims she's unbalanced.
  • 7.8
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    Secrets
    episode S2.E12 february 2001
    A dedicated inner-city schoolteacher is murdered. Initial indications that the victim lived a quiet and simple life take a turn when pictures of her posing nude are found.
  • 8.7
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    Countdown
    episode S2.E15 february 2001
    The Team at SVU has 72 hours to locate a man who has kidnapped, raped, and murdered four young girls. Can they find him before time runs out?
  • 8.5
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    Scourge
    episode S2.E21 may 2001
    A disturbed man is arrested after a murder spree. Alexandra Cabot comes under fire for seeking the death penalty.
  • 8.2
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    Repression
    episode S3.E1 september 2001
    The false memories of a girl's childhood molestation by her father lead to a tragedy.
  • 8.6
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    Ridicule
    episode S3.E10 december 2001
    Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the death of a young wife who was recently accused of assaulting a male stripper with a group of her girlfriends.
  • 8.2
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    Prodigy
    episode S3.E13 january 2002
    Benson and Stabler have the gruesome task of identifying the remains of a man and a woman who were stabbed in a park.
  • 8.3
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    Guilt
    episode S3.E18 march 2002
    When one difficulty after another hinder the prosecution of serial pedophile, Roy Barnett, desperate A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot oversteps the bounds of the law, risking both her job, and that of Benson and Stabler, to put this dangerous man behind bars.
  • 8.4
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    Greed
    episode S3.E20 april 2002
    Stabler and Benson investigate two rapes that seem to have been committed by the same man, but clues that originally lead them in one direction soon point towards another perpetrator.
  • 8.6
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    Denial
    episode S3.E21 may 2002
    A woman is raped at a party and the attacker is quickly caught but the detectives must still determine why the victim was carrying a finger from a long dead infant.
  • 7.8
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    Lust
    episode S4.E4 october 2002
    The detectives launch a search for a serial killer who raped and murdered two women in Central Park.
  • 8.6
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    Damaged
    episode S4.E11 january 2003
    Benson and Stabler are joined by Briscoe and Green when a 6-year-old shooting victim tests positive for a sexually transmitted disease.
  • 8.2
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    Perfect
    episode S4.E24 may 2003
    The investigation into a missing girl leads the detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When she is found at shelter, the doctor's sinister agenda is revealed.
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    Loss
    episode S5.E4 october 2003
    Investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.
  • 8.3
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    Control
    episode S5.E9 november 2003
    The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.
  • 8.7
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    Mean
    episode S5.E17 february 2004
    When a schoolgirl's body is found in the trunk of a car, Stabler and Benson find themselves investigating allegations of bullying among her classmates.
  • 8.1
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    Criminal
    episode S5.E21 april 2004
    When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor that Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes.
  • 8.1
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    Bound
    episode S5.E23 may 2004
    The investigation into the murder of a senior citizen leads the squad to suspect that the killer is actually a serial killer who preys on elderly women.
  • 7.9
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    Weak
    episode S6.E9 november 2004
    Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.
  • 8.4
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    Quarry
    episode S6.E13 january 2005
    An old body of a young kid is found and there seems to be a link to a soon-to-be-executed pedophile. Can the squad find the link between him and the body, or is there a more sinister link?
  • 8.3
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    Intoxicated
    episode S6.E19 march 2005
    When a mom finds her 15-year-old daughter in bed with a 21-year-old man, she goes to the SVU to report rape.
  • 7.5
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    Blood
    episode S6.E21 may 2005
    After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription painkillers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who sold her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol, they find her body and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol.
  • 7.8
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    Strain
    episode S7.E5 october 2005
    An AIDS activist is suspected of murdering a gay couple, and Detective Tutuola discovers something about a family member.
  • 7.8
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    Rockabye
    episode S7.E9 november 2005
    A sex worker is alerted by noise from the neighboring hotel room, and finds there a badly manhandled girl, who later has a miscarriage. Then the girl's father shows up and the case starts getting more complicated every time the cops learn something new about it.
  • 8.3
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    Manipulated
    episode S7.E15 february 2006
    A successful lawyer's secret life as an exotic dancer is revealed to her boss and her fiancé after she and a stripper friend are found murdered.
  • 7.6
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    Class
    episode S7.E17 march 2006
    A Hudson University co-ed dependent on financial aid is found murdered with an unexplained influx of cash. Her wealthy roommate is found with one of her rings, making her a suspect as the two were not friends. Benson, Fin, and Stabler have several theories about her murderer and their motive and investigate the various suspects; the roommate, her childhood friend, and someone connected to a heavily trafficked website where the victim was selling term papers for cash.
  • 8.2
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    Recall
    episode S8.E3 october 2006
    Stabler and his new partner go after a possible serial rapist with the help of an unlikely victim from 30 years earlier.
  • 8.4
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    Burned
    episode S8.E11 january 2007
    Elliot thinks a possible rape victim is lying to enhance her divorce settlement. But Olivia thinks it's a sign of her husband's escalating violence, and believes that Stabler's judgment is clouded because of his divorce.
  • 7.8
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    Outsider
    episode S8.E12 january 2007
    Fin reluctantly works with a Brooklyn detective who thinks that Fin's rape cases are connected to his unsolved murder cases.
  • 8.1
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    Impulsive
    episode S9.E3 october 2007
    Benson and Stabler arrest a high school teacher for having sex with one of her students, but the teacher alleges that the student raped her.
  • 8.6
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    Savant
    episode S9.E4 october 2007
    The only witness to a mother's beating is her mentally disabled daughter who is suffering from Williams Syndrome. The husband is an early suspect, but he is protected from prosecution because of the Patriot Act.
  • 7.9
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    Streetwise
    episode S9.E11 january 2008
    A Park Avenue socialite's body is found in NYC'S Central Park, and the investigation leads SVU to the father figure of a homeless "street family."
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    Inconceivable
    episode S9.E14 january 2008
    A canister of frozen embryos is stolen from a fertility clinic. The SVU team race against the clock to retrieve it before the embryos are no longer suitable for implantation.
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    Authority
    episode S9.E17 april 2008
    A man accused of impersonating a police officer over a telephone and telling a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee is found not guilty, and as a result becomes a vocal crusader telling other people to defy authority figures.
  • 8.3
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    Cold
    episode S9.E19 may 2008
    Detective Lake is accused of killing a police officer, and SVU soon discovers that he has been investigating a 10-year-old cold rape case without anyone's knowledge.
  • 8
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    PTSD
    episode S10.E9 december 2008
    SVU clashes with the Marines over jurisdiction in a case involving the murder in New York of a pregnant soldier who claims she was raped in Iraq. During the investigation, Benson has traumatic flashbacks of her sexual assault.
  • 8.1
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    Lead
    episode S10.E15 march 2009
    A pediatrician who is a convicted child molester is killed after his trial, but is the guilty party mentally competent to stand trial? Alex Cabot returns to the DA's office to prosecute the accused.
  • 8.4
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    Baggage
    episode S10.E18 april 2009
    Stabler is forced to work on a serial killer case with an abrasive detective who has been on the case for months and would prefer to work alone. However, Stabler discovers that the detective's motivation is not glory and recognition.
  • 8.2
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    Solitary
    episode S11.E3 october 2009
    Stabler is attacked by a man that he helped put away 19 years earlier. When that man faces attempted murder charges, he claims that he was the victim because of the solitary confinement he faced during his sentence.
  • 8.1
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    Turmoil
    episode S11.E8 november 2009
    ADA Cabot is being investigated by the state bar because of a rape case, but Benson and Stabler are too preoccupied to come to her aid because Stabler's son and best friend are missing.
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    Rescue
    episode S12.E10 december 2010
    While investigating a separate case involving a paramedic suspected of rape, Olivia discovers that Vivian from her serial rapist case is still in town, and her actions could jeopardize her guardianship of Vivian's son Calvin.
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    Reparations
    episode S12.E21 april 2011
    Casey Novak returns to the DA's office to prosecute a man accused of rape. However, Los Angeles ADA Jonah Dekker comes to New York City to serve for the defense as a favor to his family .