Kressler quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Linda Cavanaugh never consented to any search! The Assistant District Attorney lied her way in by claiming the apartment was a crime scene.

Sam Cavanaugh's alleged suicide attempt was never investigated.

Miss Cabot, you're not going to sell that here. Don't even try it.

This was a blatant 4th Amendment violation, sanctioned and indeed carried out by the People. Therefore, any evidence found must be suppressed.

Mr. Barnett's 4th Amendment rights were not violated. Linda Cavanaugh's certainly were, but she isn't the defendant. Mr. Barnett is. He has no standing to contest a search of someone else's home.

Are you actually arguing that you can march in like the Gestapo and search any private residence?!

I'm arguing I can search any private residence that doesn't belong to your client, and it will have no bearing on these proceedings.

While I deplore the Assistant District Attorney's actions, I am forced to agree that the illegal search of Linda Cavanaugh's residence is a civil tort. The defendant's privacy was not violated, and therefore, he has no legal standing to contest the search. Motion to suppress the evidence is denied. Miss Cabot, I scarcely know where to begin. The liberties you have taken. The disdain you have shown toward the law in this court are highly unethical and a disgrace to your position. Be assured I will recommend your office to look into your actions. And you have done yourself a real disservice in my courtroom. I won't forget it.

Novak

[to Benson and Stabler] Arrest him. [to the judge] Your honor, my detectives are here to re-arrest the defendant.

On what charges?

Novak

The murder of Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot.

Your honor, this is a blatant attempt to unlawfully detain my client.

Save it, counselor. Alex Cabot was a friend of mine. I'll see you both at arraignment.

You can't prove I killed her. And the dead can't talk.

Stabler

Liam Connors, you're under arrest for murder.

Do you have a question?

Only one. Did you see my client shoot you?

I saw his gun aimed at my heart.

Please, Miss Cabot, just answer the question. On the night that you were shot, did you see Liam Connors anywhere in the vicinity?

No, but he's a coward. He likes to run away. [to the defendant] Did you leave a family behind in Ireland, Mr. Connors?

Your honor?

Miss Cabot, please.

You have absolutely no idea who shot you, do you?

Oh, I have an idea. It's the kind of man that likes to rape a woman to make her talk.

Let me rephrase the question. Did you see Liam Connors shoot you?

No. But I know it was him.

Objection, your honor!

It takes a lot of balls to shoot an unarmed woman and a sleeping child!

Your honor! Objection!

[to Connors] It's too bad your aim wasn't a little better!

Objection, your honor!

You think you're safe?! [jumps out of his seat while the court officers restrain him] They know where you are! You should've stayed dead!

ENOUGH! We're in recess until Mr. Kressler can control his client. You may step down, Miss Cabot.

Dr. Sopher, you conducted a study involving the brain imaging of alcoholics.

Yes, and the results indicate...

People renew their objection to this hearing in its entirety.

Counselor!

It doesn't matter what voodoo science she trots out as an excuse. Intoxication has been banned as a defense to rape and murder dating back...

The People didn't meet their burden for rape. That charge was dropped!

[corrects herself] Banned as a defense to murder, dating back to the 19th century.

Would your honor remind Miss Paxton that the entire point of a Frye hearing is to consider the admissibility of new science at trial.

I do have other matters to consider. Objection overruled.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I warn you: What you are about to see is graphically violent. And forensic evidence proves that these are the indisputable actions of the defendant.

Objection! Move for a mistrial, your honor!

Dalton

No! She can't play that! She told me the jury couldn't see this one!

Bailiff, remove the jury!

Wrong one! [stops and ejects the disc] Your honor, I have no idea how this happened.

Counselors, my chambers!

How well did you know Lainie?

Nardalee

Not at all.

So you weren't girlfriends? You didn't share any secrets?

Nardalee

No.

So, you wouldn't know if what you saw was my client fulfilling Lainie's fantasy.

Nardalee

That girl was being raped.

How do you know that? You just said that you didn't know my client or Lainie.

Nardalee

I know when a woman is being raped.

Are you a mind reader?

Nardalee

I was raped.

Objection, your honor.

Nardalee

I've seen many women raped. I know that look.

This is unresponsive.

Nardalee

I know that look. That dead look in the eyes when you imagine you are anywhere but there.

Please direct her to answer the question.

Mr. Kressler asked you a question. Are you a mind reader?

Nardalee

No, your honor. I am not.

Isn't it a fact that you are in this country illegally?

Objection! Relevance.

It goes to her character. She lied to get into the country. Maybe she's lying about this.

I'll allow it.

Miss Ula, isn't it a fact that last week, you were in a detention center?

Nardalee

Yes.

And aren't you only testifying here today, in exchange for Miss Cabot getting you out?

Nardalee

No!

Is it true that you were to be deported, because of close ties to a terrorist organization?

Nardalee

That is a lie!

Aren't you married to a known terrorist?

Nardalee

It was a forced marriage!

And you claimed he raped you.

Nardalee

He and all his friends!

And now you see rape everywhere. No further questions.

Miss Ula, why did you come into this country?

Nardalee

To escape the epidemic of sexual violence taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The men who raped me were fighting for control of the mines that produce tin, tungsten, and tantalum, the conflict minerals you so desperately need to make your cell phones and computers!

Objection. What does this have to do with this trial?

He called her character into question and insinuated she was a member of a terrorist organization. He opened this door!

Overruled.

Miss Ula, do you see rape everywhere?

Nardalee

The women in my village were raped. The women in the militia camp were raped. I was raped repeatedly, by so many men, I lost count. They put their guns in my sex, and one of them pulled the trigger. I was in the hospital for over a year. It left me incontinent. So, yes. I have seen rape EVERYWHERE! That is how I know that girl was raped.

Thank you. Nothing further.