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| “ | It's nothing personal. It's a brand new market. I cornered it. […] It's so easy. Any biology undergraduate can do it. It's a whole new world. [laughs] Guess your free ride is over. | „ |
| ~ Soltice’s last lines before his imprisonment |
Dr. Joseph Soltice is the overarching antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Perverted". He is a biochemist who falsifies DNA evidence in criminal cases for money.
He was portrayed by J. Robert Spencer.
Overview[]
Soltice works as a biochemist at the RPG Research Facility in New York City. He also runs a lucrative, illegal business of helping his clients frame people for crimes they themselves committed by falsifying DNA evidence. He does this by obtaining DNA samples from the people they want him to frame, splicing the DNA in the sample with another sea pole with his coding removed. Finally, he plants the samples at various crime scenes.
"Perverted"[]
Soltice's latest client, convicted rapist Brady Harrison, pays him to frame Detective Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit for the murder of his former cellmate, Clyde Vandyne; Harrison himself had castrated and murdered Vandyne, who had repeatedly raped him in prison. Harrison bribes a corrupt police officer, Lawrence Grabowski, to follow Benson to a restuarant and take the knife from her dinner, which has her DNA on it. Grabowski then gives the knife to Soltice, who extracts the DNA from the utensil and plants it on the knife Harrison used to kill Vandyne. The ruse works, and Benson ends up being arrested for Vandyne's murder. Grabowsski then gives Soltice the money, minus his cut.
After being released on bail, Benson attempts to clear her name, eventually finding and arresting Harrison after he brags about framing her. Meanwhile, Benson's partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, and fellow SVU Detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola investigate and discover the financial treansfer Harrison made to Grabowski, and arrest the latter for bribery. While interrogating him, Stabler, Munch, and Tutuola get him to admit that he is working for Solitice, and they arrest him.
Benson and Stabler interrogate Soltice, whom they have learned used similar tactics to frame more than a dozen innocent people, all now in prison. Soltice smugly rationalizes ruining innocent people's lives as "nothing personal", and says that he is simply using his skills to "corner a new market". He gloats that, thanks to him, police forces around the country will have the collective headache of updating their forensic testing methods to make sure that no one has tampered with the evidence, something that he claims any undergraduate biology student can do.
Soltice is then imprisoned for life.
Trivia[]
- Soltice is inspired by Fred Zain, a forensic specialist guilty of fabricating DNA evidence for the police, resulting in several wrongful convictions.
External links[]
- Joseph Soltice on the Law & Order Wiki
