Law & Order (TV Series)

Crimebusters (2009)

Alana De La Garza: ADA Connie Rubirosa

Quotes 

• Attorney Wilson : These people put Trekkies to shame. Motion to suppress the backpack and the bricks from my client's tool shed.

  Connie Rubirosa : Wow, you have high hopes.

  Attorney Wilson : Well, you know what they say about being known by the company you keep.

  Connie Rubirosa : You're the one with a baby killer as a client. Live long and prosper, Mr. Wilson.

• Jack McCoy : I can't believe the police allowed these people to come near this case in the first place.

  Connie Rubirosa : These people did identify the biker in the video before the police did, and they found two damning pieces of evidence.

  Michael Cutter : Neither of which we'll be able to use. Fat lot of good it does us.

  Jack McCoy : Do what you can about the motion to suppress, but if any evidence falls out, make a deal.

  Connie Rubirosa : What, a plea bargain for killing a baby? How can you defend that?

  Jack McCoy : By acknowledging that no reasonable person could have anticipated that a woman and her baby had been allowed to spend the night in a recruitment center.

  Michael Cutter : Nice fig leaf.

  Jack McCoy : It covers enough.

• Michael Cutter : Suppression is a remedy that punishes police misconduct. The police did absolutely nothing wrong here. The brick was stolen by civilians.

  Attorney Wilson : Who'd been for all practical purposes deputized to investigate this case.

  Michael Cutter : That's not accurate. They helped identify a suspect in a photo that was released to the public.

  Judge Noreen Morrison : I think I just heard a hair split, Mr. Cutter. Talk to me about the backpack.

  Attorney Wilson : Again, it was stolen from my client by the same deputized vigilantes after they mugged him.

  Connie Rubirosa : No. We have affidavits from the detectives that these civilians were warned to stay away from Mr. Sherman. They were not working as agents of the police.

  Attorney Wilson : Even granting that, the People can't establish a chain of custody for the backpack. The butane may have been planted by the vigilantes.

  Judge Noreen Morrison : That you'll have to argue to a jury, Mr. Wilson. The backpack is coming in, the bricks are out. See you in court.

• [last lines] 

  Jack McCoy : I'm sure you could strip the flesh off Carly's bones on cross; she's traumatized, you might be able to get her to say whatever you want. And Sherman's looking at fifty years; I don't doubt that we can ram a plea bargain down his throat now. I'm declining to prosecute both Mrs. Di Gravia and Mr. Sherman because we can't say which one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. A fog of war is blinding us to the truth.

  Michael Cutter : Better not to convict anyone than convict the wrong person.

  Connie Rubirosa : I can see the headlines now. "No justice for baby Mikey."

  Michael Cutter : You're gonna take a lot of heat for this.

  Jack McCoy : I can live with that. So can you.