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Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke): A criminal defense lawyer who specializes in defending accused sex offenders, he first appears as the attorney for a suspected rapist, and demands access to all of the LAPD's evidence against his client in exchange for the name of the man's partner. As it turns out, Stroh himself was the partner, and used this ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. American actor For other people named Billy Burke, see Billy Burke (disambiguation). Billy Burke Burke at WonderCon, Anaheim, California, March 30, 2013 Born William Albert Burke (1966-11-25) November 25, 1966 (age 58) Bellingham, Washington, U.S. Occupations Actor musician Years active ...
Philip Stroh, via his special master (working to ensure Stroh is not breaching attorney-client privilege) - a friend from law school days and now a judge - demands a new deal by telling DDA Rios that three women will soon die. After the first is found dead in a burned-down house, the team tries to uncover who the next will be and how Stroh ...
Raydor's foster son Rusty Beck (whom she later adopts) adds more drama to Raydor's personal life, but it bleeds into her professional life as well, since Rusty is the key eyewitness in the trial of serial killer Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke). Rusty ends up attending the same Catholic school Raydor's grown children once attended.
Brenda faces twisted attorney (and presumed rapist and murderer) Phillip Stroh, who is representing a rapist whom the MCD apprehended. When Brenda tries an unorthodox strategy to gain more time to find the rapist's partner, she incurs the wrath of the ADA and discovers how the Johnson Rule has weakened her position in the LAPD.
When Brenda nearly gets a confession, she is interrupted by the arrival of Dunlap's attorney, Phillip Stroh (Billy Burke). After being caught in several of Stroh's tricks, such as being forced to open up her case to him by Deputy District Attorney Martin Garnett, Brenda gets Dunlap to confess to being the accomplice in the rapes.
The Closer is an American police procedural television series starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief.A CIA-trained interrogator originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Brenda has a reputation as a closer—an interrogator who not only solves a case, but also obtains confessions that lead to convictions, thus "closing" the case.
At the end of the series, after Rusty kills serial killer Phillip Stroh, Provenza takes credit for the shooting to protect Rusty even though Stroh having a gun makes the shooting justified. Provenza is cleared of the shooting by FID, but it's implied that at least Fritz Howard and Julio Sanchez suspect the truth though they let it go.