Law & Order quotes

Looks like our D.O.A. was a judge.

Not the verdict he was looking for.

It's family court. Everyone who walks in is having the worst day of their life.

Judge's wife said he was preoccupied.

Nothing like a side piece to preoccupy someone. Also doubles the chances of you getting bludgeoned to death in a parking garage.

Forensics came back on the fire extinguisher. They recovered a hair. Didn't belong to the victim and it didn't match anyone in the system.

Well, that eliminates Weisman.

I sent to a private lab for geneology and disease analysis.

Pulling out all the stops, huh?

He was a judge, Kevin. C'mon, you know I wish we had the resources to go the extra mile for every unsolved, but we don't.

Funny how they always manage to find the cash when the victim's a white dude from the Upper East Side, but when it's a poor Black kid from East Flatbush? "Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have it in the budget."

I hear you...

Do you?

[about Hoyt] I heard he was running for Congress and the power brokers in the Democratic Party were making him out to be the best new thing. Like AOC with some brains. [chuckles] That was a joke. Sorry. Didn't mean to offend your left wing sensibilities.

You didn't offend us. It wasn't funny.

I run a media business. I give the people what they want. Real people. Real, honest, hard-working, middle class people who love this country, who can't relate to the rich, coastal elites who control the media and the political narrative. C'mon, you really think some roofer from Akron with a mortgage and three kids gives a rat's ass about somebody's pronoun?

So you don't really believe that liberals eat babies or that Black people's obsession with racism is destroying the country?

It doesn't matter what I believe. It matters what sells.

The post was sent from a cafe in Brooklyn called Coffee'n'Smile.

Why has it become mandatory for coffee shops to be called stupid names?

That's why I drink tea.

Inventing mythical enemies is part of the defendant's business model. He creates clickbait. He provides exciting liberal enemies for his followers to hate. He then posts about these dangerous fascists and anti-Americans on his websites, talks about them on his streaming platform and podcasts. But the only thing he really cares about is money. Monetizing the outrage and venom, that's how the defendant builds his billion dollar media empire. In simplest terms, he made Derek Hoyt an enemy of the far right, then offered Manny Lopez, a misguided but intelligent, patriotic ex-Marine, a financial reward to kill that enemy. And Manny Lopez did. He pushed Derek Hoyt in front of a bus. Tomorrow, you'll hear Mr. Lopez describe this murder for hire in greater detail, and make it clear that the defendant should be held accountable for Mr. Hoyt's death.

Chat room posts, social media rants, they're protected under the First Amendment. Jordan Reed can say whatever the hell he wants. He can talk about liberal cannibals and underage sex trafficking rings all day long.

Your client cried fire in a crowded movie theater, and Derek Hoyt got trampled to death. We have every right to move forward on Murder Two.

I agree with Mr. Price. There is a case here. I don't know if it's winnable, but it's certainly tryable. So, let's do it.

Hell of a verdict, Nolan. It'll make people think twice about tweeting venom.

I'm not so sure. Someone called "Garrett From the Country" just tweeted me a particularly venomous death threat.

Who found the body?

[pointing to the witness] She was walking to work and saw the fancy trunk. Tried to wheel it off, realized there was something inside, opened it up. She wasn't expecting to find a bare-assed dead dude, that's for sure.

Mama always said you see something in the street, leave it be.

I can't believe what I just heard. What is this, 1954? Kickin' a kid out because you think he "chose" to be gay?

Crazy, but it's still a thing in my community, especially among the religious folks.

I don't get it.

Don't get what?

People - Black people. Here you are, marching in the streets for police reform, all these progressive laws, but if your kid turns out to be gay? Well, he needs counseling. You need to make him "right with God". You ask me, that's what you need to be marching about.

OK, you're right, but don't act like your people are much better. You still can't have premarital sex, for God's sake.

Reason number 36 why I don't go to church anymore.

[about Swanson] He would tell me to take off my clothes, and he'd tell me to pretend like I was his... servant. He would use a different word, of course, but I refuse to say it out loud. Then, ah... he would tie me up, and start to shoot me up with meth.

He would just just watch you get high? That was exciting to him?

No, man, it was way more screwed up than that. It was like he would walk your ass up to Heaven's gates and decide whether you would get to live or die. Sick son-of-a-bitch thought he was God, or somethin'.

[to Maroun] You'll never convict me. You know that, right?

Swanson is a very dangerous, evil man.

McCoy

But, at the moment, he's still a very well-respected, very well-connected businessman, with ties to some of the most influential politicians in the country. Not to mention he supported my opponent in the last election. So, he'll claim we're biased, that this is all payback.

What are you saying?

McCoy

If we're going to try to kill the king, we can't miss.