You can call it rescue; a grand jury calls it kidnapping.
SSally
Is that a threat, detective?
No, it's penal law.
S3 E11Extended Family
SSilver
You'll destroy my daughter's life and for what? Public scandal, page 6?
I hope there's an afterlife. Some crimes, the penal law isn't good enough.
S3 E12Right to Counsel
The defendant savagely murdered an elderly woman, Your Honor.
JFJudge Franks
Wait, wait, wait. It says here Mrs. Spiegelman was 61.
That's correct, Your Honor.
JFJudge Franks
At my 61st birthday, you were cramming for a torts exam. I'd advise you to choose your adjectives a little more courteously, counselor.
The People request bail of $500,000.
KKnight
My client can hardly afford cab fare to Brooklyn, your honor. Why not make it a million?
JFJudge Franks
Why not? [laughs] And they say the elderly lose their sense of humor. [laughs again] Bail is set at 250, cash or bond.
Justice is swift, not fair.
S3 E13Night and Fog
SSteinmetz
An SS officer, Heinrich, came to our door and gave us cake instead of bread. He said that if I could convince my neighbors to go along, nobody would be killed. People lived a few days, a few hours longer. That's what it was about. People who were not there could not possibly understand.
Your wife understood, sir. That's why you killed her.
JSJudge Stein
Ben, you are walking through history. God help us if you fall down.
S3 E14Promises to Keep
You're gonna take somebody's purse...
I know. You bash her head in, you stick a knife in her ribs, you pull on the strap until it snaps.
Yeah. So, what kind of mugger strangles?
Unless ... they knew each other. You smell romance?
Love at last sight.
First-year guys. Like puppies. You gotta show them the stick before you throw it.
S3 E15Mother Love
[about Dawn] A girl so stoned she thinks the day is 240 hours long.
FFred
Where'd they raise you, Mr. Robinette? Scarsdale?
Harlem.
FFred
Never would have guessed. You want my wife in jail? What can jail do to her? She has nothing left. She won't even go to church.
You may not believe this, but I'm truly sorry for what happened to your family. But you want us to bend the law. And we both know what it's like when there's one law for black and another for white. It was no good fifty years ago, it's no good now.
FFred
You think the system's gonna change? You think we're gonna be equal? Call me when your kids grow up. Tell me how they're doing. The system's been against us for a long time. Maybe right now, it's gotta bend the other way.
S3 E16Jurisdiction
Davy Zifrin will be lost in prison.
JFJudge Feist
Leave him a trail of breadcrumbs.
PPawl
Probable cause. You got no probable cause.
You're under arrest because you're probably guilty.
S3 E17Conduct Unbecoming
Stone is cross examining a Navy Captain accused of murdering a female Lieutenant.
What about the prostitute eyewitnesses saw you with, Miss Tammy White? They reported that you got very angry towards her-
CCaptain
That bitch deserved it!
[A brief silence]
Which bitch is it, Sir? Lieutenant Hagen or Tammy White?
The whole floor was charged to the Officers' Mess Fund.
Nice to know my tax dollars aren't being wasted on school books.
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