Law & Order (TV Series)

Good Girl (1996)

Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy

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• Adam Schiff : Get an indictment. Go to trial. Give them what they want.

  Jack McCoy : I have to convince a jury that Charley Monroe didn't rape Danielle Mason. We're twenty minutes from Howard Beach. A young, black man can't talk to a white girl without getting his brains kicked in by thugs.

• Jamie Ross : Racial make-up, my ass. Archer's afraid a black woman would vote to convict.

  Jack McCoy : What makes you so sure she would? I'm telling the judge we'll go along with Archer's proposal. I don't like being manipulated by phony letters.

  Jamie Ross : You like losing better? We don't know for a fact the letter's bogus. Seating a black woman would get us closer to a hung jury.

  Jack McCoy : And to prosecutorial misconduct. I don't want to do it.

  Jamie Ross : You heard Danielle's father. That's who wins here. A bunch of bigots because your ethics might get ruffled.

  Jack McCoy : You took the same oath I did.

• Jack McCoy : Archer's making history. He's the first lawyer to claim a white defendant is being persecuted by the black power structure.

• Jack McCoy : I've read enough child abuse reports to know spiral fractures are caused by someone twisting your arm until it breaks.

• Jamie Ross : [When McCoy discovers that the murder victim had a juvenile record]  It's not exculpatory evidence. Under Brady, we're under no obligation to turn it over to the defense.

  Jack McCoy : They can argue it's evidence he had a reputation for sexual violence.

  Jamie Ross : Which is relevant only if she knew his reputation before she killed him. She can't say she did and claim she didn't know him.

  Jack McCoy : Do you expect a jury to give a damn? I don't want this to come back and bite us in the ass in the middle of the trial.