In an interview given the day after the show's cancellation, creator James Duff revealed that he and Kyra Sedgwick had a three-episode deal for her to act at some point on Major Crimes, but they could never worked out their schedules and a worthy storyline at the same time.

A running action through the series was to casually slip a Miranda warning to suspects the squad wanted to question, a carryover from The Closer (2005). In 2010, though, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an explicit acknowledgment that the person understands their Miranda rights must be given. This did not always occur on the series -- thus any confessions which were made based on warnings whose consequences were not specifically acknowledged by interrogees would likely have been ruled inadmissible.

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