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Married |
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Sonny |
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Assistant District Attorney |
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Male |
| Hair color |
Dark (greying) |
| Skin color |
Pale |
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ADA Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr was a detective with the Special Victims Unit and is now an Assistant District Attorney.
On December 5, 2022, Carisi married his former partner Amanda Rollins in a courthouse. A year later, they have a son, Dominick "Nicky" Carisi III. He is the stepfather of Rollins' daughters, Jesse & Billie Rollins.
History[]
Carisi was first introduced after being transferred into the precinct after Sergeant Olivia Benson put in a request for an "experienced, empathetic Detective" following the temporary demotion of Nick Amaro to patrol officer. He also replaced Amaro as the lead male of the SVU after his departure at the end of Season 16. He was in Staten Island Special Victims Unit for two months, Brooklyn for almost a month and Queens for a week (before that, he was an officer on Staten Island). He also worked in the Homicide Unit for a couple years. Though his brash and argumentative attitude has placed him at odds with Benson and the others, he's shown a knack for interrogations, by pretending to empathize with suspects and getting them to open up to him.
He passed his bar exam in 2016, but following the brutal death of Sergeant Mike Dodds, he decided to stay with the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. He later served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Sergeant Dodds, who was shot to death by Gary Munson, a corrupt Rikers Island corrections and serial rapist who held his wife, Lisa, hostage. At the bar following the service, Carisi toasts Mike as "the bravest cop we ever worked with".
Carisi told a young boy that when he was a boy, he was pushed through a glass window by a bully and stayed silent, out of fear that the bully would come back and attack him again. A few years later, Carisi found out that his bully had murdered someone in a fight and was imprisoned at Rikers for it. He then said that he regrets not speaking up about the assault.
In 2019, Carisi was promoted to Assistant District Attorney for the Special Victims Unit, replacing ADA Peter Stone, who had quit his job. Benson and Rollins both attended his first arraignment against a serial rapist who had raped several young, aspiring actresses. Carisi said that he practiced Barba's summations in front of his mirror.
Carisi told a lawyer that his mother had once fallen pregnant, but the unborn baby had a heart defect, which would have resulted in death once born. He then said only him, and his mother knew and both had been extremely distraught over the whole deal. Carisi admonished the lawyer for supporting a pedophile who targeted his own stepdaughter, resulting in the latter charging the predator.
On May 28, 2021, Carisi was going to be the minster for Odafin Tutuola's wedding to Phoebe Baker. He practiced his speech for the wedding, but Carisi himself was having relationship trouble. He got into a fight with his girlfriend, Nicole Harper, who opposed the institution of marriage. The fight is implied to be pretty serious and ends of their relationship. At the end, the wedding does not go on, though Fin and Phoebe remain a couple. He was approached by Rollins for a sample of what he had written but wasn't able to say for the wedding, Rollins is brought to tears to which Carisi comforts her. Rollins finally realizes that she has deeper feelings for Carisi, ultimately leading to Rollins kissing him.
Both him and Rollins start dating each other in secret for a little while. After 9 months, late January 2022, they both decide to make their relationship public with both of them having to tell their bosses and Rollins' daughters. Over a month later, Carisi takes Rollins and her daughters on a family vacation to Orlando for a few weeks.
December 5, 2022, at the courthouse, Carisi called Fin, Benson and Velasco to meet him at the courthouse. Carisi then surprised them when they realized he was getting married to Rollins. Carisi then married Rollins in the courthouse before celebrating after with friends and family. After the wedding, Carisi then took Elias Olsen to trial where he prepped witnesses to testify at Olsen's trial including Grace Muncy and Priya Singh. Later, after Rollins told Benson that she was leaving the squad, Rollins met with Carisi in his office where she told him that she was going to accept the job offer at Fordham Law and that Benson didn't take the news very well. Carisi told Rollins that Benson will come to her senses.
Appearances[]
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season 16
- Season 17
- Season 18
- Season 19
- Season 20
- Season 21
- Season 22
- Season 23
- Season 24
- Season 25
- Law & Order: Organized Crime
- Season 1: "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"
- Season 3: "With Many Names"
- Season 4: "The Last Supper"
- Law & Order
- Season 22: "Gimme Shelter"
- Chicago P.D.
- Season 2: "The Number of Rats"