Randall Wylie was a white collar criminal who, while awaiting trial, became reluctantly involved in a contract hit targeting the judge who put him in prison.
History[]
Wylie was a bank CFO living in Westchester with his wife Janice and two daughters. At some point, he took some stock from a company he was consulting for and illicitly unloaded the shares, making almost $500,000. He was soon discovered and arrested for fraud. Despite the fact that the ADA assigned to his case offered him a plea bargain, the presiding judge, Linda Karlin, rejected it in order to impose the maximum sentence once Wylie was found guilty. Later, after Janice travelled to the Cayman Islands, Karlin interpreted this as a risk of fleeing and put Randall in prison pending trial, which enraged him and his wife. While at Rikers Island, Wylie met fellow inmate Jimmy McGowan, who told him he had to find a way to get rid of Karlin or else she would ruin his life due to her tendency to facilitate convictions and impose harsh sentences.
Panicking, Wylie reluctantly agreed to discuss a hit with a criminal named Frank Morris, but in the end, he refused to carry on with it. When Morris threatened his family to silence him, Wylie decided to not report the arranged hit. A week later, Morris attempted to shoot Karlin in Manhattan, but he was killed by Karlin's bodyguard. When he was interrogated by Detectives Briscoe and Green, Wylie denied having anything to do with the attempted hit, but he was re-arrested when McGowan agreed to testify against him. During the trial, Wylie revealed he was pressured into discussing the hit by McGowan and threatened by Morris. Given McGowan and Morris' roles, EADA McCoy offered Wylie a sentence of 12-and-a-half to 25 years for fraud and not reporting the hit, which he accepted. (L&O: "Judge Dread")