Law & Order Season 22 quotes

Booker never intended to kill anybody. He and Foster were fighting to gain control of the gun. The actual bullet wound wasn't even life-threatening. The CO ultimately died of a secondary infection.

McCoy

Irrelevant.

Legally, yes, but morally, ethically ... shouldn't we at least consider Man 1?

McCoy

We can't reward Booker because he tried to escape, regardless of his innocence. He should have waited for the process to play itself out.

I get it, but...

McCoy

But what?

The system failed him, over and over again. So why on Earth should we punish him for not believing in something that he had no credible basis to believe in?

McCoy

You did nothing wrong, Nolan. The truth would have come out eventually.

You're right, but "eventually" took too damn long, and now Randall Foster is dead.

McCoy

I understand. Elements of this case are highly unusual, and troubling. We act on the facts as presented, and Randall Foster is dead because the defendant tried to escape. That's felony murder, all day long. So make peace with the past, and get your head into the game, understand?

This jury wants to let Booker go free and send me to Rikers in his place.

You know, I thought I could help people by going to law school, fight the system that way. It didn't work out for me the way I thought. So I joined the Police Academy. I thought I could do more good on the streets, have more of a direct impact. I became a cop to keep innocent Black men out of prison, not put them in there.

No matter how hard we all try, every once in a while we get it wrong. It's just the way it is.

That's a hell of a speech, unless your name is Troy Booker.