Quoted from the Hollywood Reporter 3/15/00 under casting:

Scott Cohen ("Gia," "Gotti," recent NBC miniseries "The 10th Kingdom" and CBS telefile "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town"), is set to co-star in "Silent Witness", a drama pilot from Granada Entertainment, NBC studios and Columbia Tristar TV for NBC. Cohen will play an appealing, rough-hewn detective who is alternately alienated by and endeared to his co-worker, a Chicago medical examiner. Cohen is repped by Writers and Artists"