Kyra Sedgwick submitted this episode to the Emmys for consideration for Lead Actress. While nominated, she however lost the award to Mariska Hargitay for her work in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
The scene at the beginning of the episode where the Congresswoman is making her speech was filmed at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the LA Biltmore has a long and storied history connected to the development of the motion picture industry. Famously, it was at a banquet held at the hotel in May, 1927 that the design for the Oscar was sketched on a napkin (still displayed at the hotel,) and the hotel was the site of the Academy Awards a number of times between 1931 and 1942. The hotel is frequently used in film and television productions, and its elaborate Spanish/Italian Rennaissance architecture lends itself to a wide range of situations.
The Los Angeles Regional Crime Lab is interesting in its own right, collaboratively housing the LAPD SID, the LA County Sheriff's Department Scientific Services Bureau, and the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics at California State University, Los Angeles, on whose campus it is located. Students in criminalistics and criminal justice study and work alongside professionals from the two law enforcement agencies, whose personnel teach in the program as well.