Your Honor, this is nothing more than Mr. Peck's conceit that he can pull a rabbit out of a hat, and his never ending love for an opportunity just to hear himself talk.
S11 E1Endurance
It's possible she suppressed her memory of that night. It's possible she felt too guilty to fully participate in her own defense.
It's also possible that her lawyer isn't the idiot that we take him for. He held on to this until he thought it would do the most good.
No, he's an idiot.
PPeck
The heart is an unruly little chihuahua.
S11 E2Turnstile Justice
Mr. Donatelli: You guys declare yourselves done, and they're done. You say the one and only person responsible for Steph getting killed is this lunatic, you put a line through it on your list and then you pat yourselves on the back!
Judge Mizener: Mr. Donatelli, I understand you're upset, but this isn't the time or the place to address these things.
Mr. Donatelli: Tell me what is the time and place and I'll be there! Tell me when you're gonna hold someone accountable for turning him loose on Steph, and I'll be there.
Lewin: You have a defendant responsible for sending a dangerous psychotic out among the citizens of New York. Whatever excuses he has, whatever excuses the two of you have, now that you've gone after him, I want you to run him to ground.
McCoy: No one should be heard to say that providing medical care at Riker's Island is easy, nor is it the position of this District Attorney's office that there aren't legitimate financial constraints on the provider. We've heard that the defendant operating under those constraints is just a simple man doing the best he could. Let's look at that a little bit. Brian Gallant was at Riker's for a year. He was medicated on a daily basis by the defendant's company with the defendant's knowledge. On the day he was released, he was hallucinating and disoriented. Nonetheless, he was handed over to the Department of Corrections who dropped him off at a subway station in the middle of the night. He was given no medication, no referral for ongoing care, not an address to go to, not a phone number to call. This was not done by accident or oversight. This was the express instruction of the defendant. Was not the violent behavior of Brian Gallant a foreseeable event? Was not the defendant well aware, not only of Mr. Gallant's propensities but of the risk he constituted for every person he came in contact with? The answer is, of course, he was aware of it. Of course, he chose to ignore it. Of course, it was his recklessness that brought about this woman's death. Find him guilty, ladies and gentlemen. He deserves it.
How much time will Andrews serve with good behavior?
Under a year.
Good, that means jail, not state prison. He'll serve it at Rikers. Let's hope he has a good immune system.
S11 E3Dissonance
You need to understand that when it comes to trying someone for murder, particularly someone like Carl Reger, who's given so much of himself to the city, that Jack McCoy doesn't get a free one.
And you need to understand that veiled threats disguised as friendly advice sound an awful lot to me like judicial bias. Especially when delivered ex parte.
First off, I don't have to justify my decisions to you. Second, that sound you hear is the ice cracking underneath your feet.
With all due respect, your honor, you weigh more than I do. I request that you recuse yourself from the case of the People v. Reger.
Request denied.
Then you can explain yourself to the grievance board.
You file a complaint against me, and your A.D.A.'s will never get to first base inside my courtroom, based strictly on the merits of their cases.
If you threaten me again, I'll report this conversation and our last conversation to the presiding judge of the appellate division. And if you step over the line in court just once, I'll take you down. And you won't get up again.
S11 E4Standoff
GGuard
Listening to a couple of lawyers tell me what we should and should not do makes me feel like putting them in a cell with one of my 250-pound CPSU All-Stars. Then I'd go home, have a hot meal, get a good night's sleep, and come back in the morning to watch them mop.
They tried the victim.
And made a badge a license to kill.
S11 E5Return
R1Rabbi 1
We offer no opinion on the sincerity of Mr. Becker's beliefs, or on who's entitled to try him where and for what. This is not up to us. All we can determine is whether the standard for conversion has been met. Without proof of a mikveh, we have to say it has not. Also, we see no evidence that, to this point, Eli Becker has been living what we could call a Jewish life style. Accordingly, Eli Becker is ruled not Jewish.
[Eli's father shouts in Hebrew and jumps out of his seat in fury]
FFeldman
Rabbis? Rabbis, can I be heard?
R1Rabbi 1
Our ruling will be put into writing and made available to both sides by the end of the day.
BMr. Becker
I had half my family die in the ovens! Who the hell are you to tell me that my son is not Jewish?!
R1Rabbi 1
Sorry, Mr. Becker. This is not up to us.
BMr. Becker
A stinking technicality! And these momzers'll hang him for it!
R3Rabbi 3
The Talmud has no technicalities, Mr. Becker. Only laws.
BMr. Becker
Drop dead!
If the case depends on the jury believing a career criminal who's cut a deal, I'd say we're in trouble.
We have a defendant who left the country rather than stand trial.
Which the defense will attribute to a combination of panic and religious fervor.
We could also establish that he was stealing from the business.
A business his father half-owned.
Are you suggesting that we offer him a deal?
After what we went through to get him back here? Not on your life!
S11 E6Burn Baby Burn
Don't beat yourself up too badly over this one, Jack.
A guy shoots a New York City police officer in the line of duty and I can't convict him.
Enough of the jury identified with his fear of cops.
Used to be a fear of cops didn't justify shooting them.
Used to be a lot of things.
S11 E7Amends
CCurran
I'd rather be in uniform. Too much politics in being a detective. I don't know how you guys do it.
We're different. We're in it for the money.
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