Benjamin "Ben" Stone is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Moriarty in the TV drama Law & Order.
Stone works in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Alfred Wentworth (in the pilot episode) and Adam Schiff. It was Schiff with whom he is closest, treating him as a kind of surrogate father (his own father having been an overbearing alcoholic, as revealed in the episode "Prescription For Death".)
Stone became Executive Assistant DA ...
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Benjamin "Ben" Stone is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Moriarty in the TV drama Law & Order.
Stone works in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Alfred Wentworth (in the pilot episode) and Adam Schiff. It was Schiff with whom he is closest, treating him as a kind of surrogate father (his own father having been an overbearing alcoholic, as revealed in the episode "Prescription For Death".)
Stone became Executive Assistant DA in 1985 after convicting con artist and murderer Philip Swann (who, in the 1993 episode "American Dream", enters a civil suit against Stone when the validity of the conviction is called into question). Stone's assistants have been Paul Robinette and Claire Kincaid, both of whom revere him as a kind of mentor. He is a more conventional litigator than his successor, Jack McCoy.
A strict, unyielding boss, Stone can be very difficult to work with; in the pilot episode, Detectives Max Greevey and Mike Logan, intimate that Stone "eats ADAs for lunch...
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