Law & Order (TV Series)

Remand (1996)

Sam Waterston: Executive ADA Jack McCoy

Quotes 

• Executive ADA Jack McCoy : A new trial, Adam? Thirty-year-old evidence, witnesses gone who knows where?

  DA Adam Schiff : You have the victim, and a confession. You want me to gift wrap it for you?

  ADA Claire Kincaid : He's almost sixty. The jury might think he's rehabilitated - even harmless.

  DA Adam Schiff : Munoz has crawled halfway out of the hole we dug for him thirty years ago. You hit him with a shovel, before he crawls all the way out.

• Executive ADA Jack McCoy : His competency is not in question. Besides, it's irrelevant. Miranda isn't retroactive; it's not grounds for appeal for every felon convicted before then.

  Teri Marks : I'm not talking about every felon - I'm talking about a case where there's the possibility of a conflict of interest. The confession was never challenged.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Then challenge it under the laws as they existed in 1965. I've read them, your honor - I bet even Clarence Darrow couldn't get this confession suppressed.

• Teri Marks : You threatened to tell his wife, unless he gave you money for an abortion.

  Cookie Costello : That's not true! I - I am a good Catholic; I would never do a thing like that!

  Teri Marks : You mean the kind of good Catholic who gets arrested for bookmaking? Who commits adultery with felons?

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Objection!

  Trial Judge Harold Rockwell : Sustained. Tone it down, Miss Marks.

• ADA Claire Kincaid : It won't be pretty. Marks'll have a field day with Costello.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Unless we inoculate the jury.

  ADA Claire Kincaid : We do it to her before Marks does?

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : Ask the L.A. prosecutors: Don't they wish they'd pulled the pin on the Fuhrman grenade?

• ADA Claire Kincaid : Marks knows her audience. Could've heard hair grow in that jury box.

  Executive ADA Jack McCoy : People slow down for traffic accidents; that doesn't mean they approve.