Season Five
Season Five

Second Opinion

"Only you have to present your case in a courtroom, not a philosophy class!"

"The dead can't testify."

Coma

"Another satisfied customer."

"Want to try to turn the law around? Be my guest, just don't complain to me you're overworked."

"Well, I understand you've been promoted from assistant district attorney to supreme deity."

Adam: "Hmmm...smart."
Jack: "Lucky."
Adam: "Or innocent."

Blue Bamboo

"Kaskel times her summation to fall on Pearl Harbor Day so the jury can pin a medal on her client."

"This defense! Like my grandmother's nightgown, it covers everything." SHTP, QAS

Family Values

[McCoy wants to use a legal tactic that is unorthodox.]: "Don't bother inviting me to your disbarment party." SHTP, QAS

White Rabbit

"Five minutes of Bill Kunstler goes a long way. When you were learning to walk, he and I were on the same side of the courtroom, protecting protesters from the government."

Claire: "Nobody protected Officer Perella from Susan Forrest."
Adam: "Yes, but now she's 'den mother of the year,' who bakes cookies for the Little League."

"In those days, they wiretapped anyone who wore a paisley shirt."

Competence

"Save yourself a migraine. Offer a rob three."

Jack: "I made a judgment call."
Adam: "When a decision can have an effect on the perceived integrity of this office, nobody's judgment counts but mine!"

"If she finds against you, you'll be lucky if you're closing up the office before lunch."

Claire: "Now all we have to do is hope the jury understands the difference between motive and intent."
Adam: "Good luck. That's beyond most members of the bar."

Precious

Jack: "If those were my children, I'd want that woman in prison."
Adam: "With a 15 percent chance she's innocent? I wouldn't tell that to the next Mrs. McCoy."

"Munchausen, schumchausen." SHTP, QAS

"If you believe you have a serial killer, go to trial, but don't expect it to be a walk in the summer rain."

"You're riding your motorcycle without a helmet."

"If your crystal ball is that good, I'll tell the mayor we don't need police anymore."

Virtue

Jack: "Adam, she was in Talbert's office until 4 a.m., she was at her doctor's office at 7 without an appointment--"
Adam: "And back at her desk promptly at 9."

Jack: "Adam, the papers already know all about this. If we drop it, guess whose name's going to hit the op-ed pages as part of a political cover-up?"
Adam: "What the hell was that? You believe in the case, you prosecute it! Don't lay this off on me!"

Claire: "In her mind, she was raped."
Adam: "Unfortunately, the people who wrote the penal law are not bouncing around in her head."

"So he's a pig. He belongs in a sty, not a prison."

"Wonderful. Now all we have to do is convince this woman to admit in open court that she slept her way to the top."

Claire: "I'd say she's pretty confident."
Adam: "Why shouldn't she be? You've asked them to create a crime behind the legislature's back."

Adam: "Enjoy it [the conviction] for the next three months."
Claire: "I'm not so sure it will be reversed."
Adam: "It's not the appellate court I'm worried about."
Jack: "You think the legislature will preempt them?"
Adam: "I think the jails will be too crowded if they don't."

Scoundrels

"I'm beginning to think the defense case is rather convincing."

"You never found the murder weapon. You don't have a witness to this shooting. You don't even have a motive anymore!"

"Sounds like everyone in New York City had a grudge against this guy."

Jack: "Adam, you haven't been in a courtroom in a long time!"
Adam: "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

House Counsel

"Smart has nothing to do with honest."

Schiff: "What is this, Bernie's Bargain Basement? Cop to four murders and get only five years?"
McCoy: "When I made the deal, I had no idea..."
Schiff: "That's because your ego was rushing from your head downstream to somewhere south of the border!"

Guardian

"You tell your detectives that the Bill of Rights isn't a doormat."

"You arrest a man like Jerome Kamen, you make damn sure your ducks are standing beak to tail."

"Don't jump the canyon on your motorcycle."

Progeny

(to Claire): "So two wrongs make a right? Is that what they taught you in Harvard Law School?"

"Is there anyone in town who is not using this office for their own personal agenda?"

Rage

"Someone ought to give our detectives a crash course in Fourth Amendment search and seizure law!"

"Without motive, you couldn't convince a jury water's wet."

McCoy: "If we can establish that we would have inevitably discovered the trade..."
Schiff: "What psychic are you planning to call as your first witness?" SHTP, QAS

Claire: "And in this case, it's all nonsense."
Adam: "Yes, if trials were about facts."

Jack: "This is about convicting one man of homicide."
Adam: "Man, don't you wish. I've got news for you: if enough people think it's about racism, it's about racism."

[to Claire]: "No one's being condescending here, young lady." SHTP, QAS

Performance

"Points for what??!!" SHTP, QAS

Adam: "[They] must have taken an oath of stupidity. Even the mob doesn't command such loyalty anymore." SHTP, QAS

Jack: "...I think I can win."
Adam: "That's great. You get an A for self-esteem." SHTP, QAS

"So you've got something legal and inadmissible that you're trying to get in the back door twice. [pause] I like it." SHTP, QAS

Claire: "The Judge recommended that they serve 2 years."
Adam: "Wonderful--they'll be out in time for graduation." SHTP, QAS

"Oh, The Constitution--that pesky thing." SHTP, QAS

Jack: "The kid acts as if he was making a tape for the NYU film school."
Adam: "Maybe the girl was auditioning for Yale drama."

"Peer pressure isn't against the law."

"Your case makes for exciting bedtime reading and that's it."

Seed

"Miss Kincaid goes out on a limb, puts her career on the line. It must be comforting to her to know she has 90 percent of your support."

"Judge Ianello may drink too much, but he's right. If it turns out to be true, what Gilbert did is disgusting but there's nothing in the penal law that says he can't do it."

"What are you going to do, put a test tube on the stand?" SHTP, QAS

"No wonder their lips are sealed. They don't want their son to find out one day they only bought him for his parts."

Wannabe

Claire: "The school circled the limos to keep the Barclay name out of it."
Adam: "I'm shocked."
Jack: "This isn't stink bombs in the boys room, Adam! They hindered prosecution of an A felony!"
Adam: "Now I'm very shocked." SHTP, QAS

"Don't invent conspiracies just because these people rub you the wrong way."

Act of God

"Some cop trying to save his reputation is not evidence."

"This guy's better than Romeo and Juliet."

"In the future when we go to trial, we should know what we are doing first." SHTP, QAS

Privileged

"The crime is so crazy, the kid's gotta be nuts."

"Got no case? Come to us and we'll give you all the help you need!" SHTP, QAS

Cruel and Unusual

"The parents might have consented to Colter's therapy, but they cannot consent to murder."

Bad Faith

"Even golfers retire."

Adam: "What have you been inhaling? You want to name the Catholic Church as a co-conspirator?" SHTP, QAS
Jack: "An unindicted co-conspirator."
Adam: "I see. We don't charge them with conspiring, we just say they did. It's going to be a great relief to the archbishop."

"He jammed a stick in your spokes."

"Pull your pecans out of the fire."

Purple Heart

"They'll want a look at your adding machine."

"This defense lawyer makes suspects out of your own witnesses! We're lucky this isn't on TV!"

Adam: "Well, at least there is one redeeming fact."
McCoy: "And what's that?"
Adam: "Saving the citizens a little money, losing two cases for the price of one." SHTP, QAS

"Interesting--get this kid to confess to a more serious crime and reduce his sentence."

Switch

Jack: "I got the feeling she was more confused than anything."
Adam: "With three personalities, who wouldn't be?"

"It's the father, it's the daughter, it's Bobby. You need a scorecard to keep track!"

"Now you're saying the father didn't do it. You ought to take this roller coaster to Coney Island." SHTP, QAS

"In other words, you have no idea who could have committed this crime."

Pride

"Very touching, a hustler in love."

Jack: "Gays are unstable. Gays are violent."
Adam: "Yeah, they're so emotionally fragile they just go off their pretty little heads."

"Don't worry about two out of five, worry about one out of twelve."

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