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In a statement via the New York Post, Bratt said: "After four years I've felt like it was time to get back home to my family. "How do you walk away from the best job in the world, and a group of people you've grown to love?" He said it was an "extremely difficult decision" and hoped he would be able to work with his Law and Order co-stars again.
Benjamin Bratt is leaving the show at the end of the season to be replaced by Jesse L. Martin, who plays Calista Flockhart's doctor- boyfriend on Ally McBeal, producer Dick Wolf said. "How do you walk away from the best job in the world and a group of people that you've grown to love?" Bratt said. "It's not easy, and it was an extremely difficult decision that I had to make."