Law & Order (TV Series)

Remand (1996)

Steven Hill: DA Adam Schiff

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.

• ADA Claire Kincaid : It's exculpatory. It points to a credible alternative theory of the crime.

  DA Adam Schiff : I see. Farina was furious she was pregnant - he attacked her. Killed her unborn baby. Left her for dead.

  ADA Claire Kincaid : It might sound credible to a jury.

  DA Adam Schiff : And Munoz comes along and rapes her - still credible.

  ADA Claire Kincaid : Maybe not - but I'd err on the side of caution, and turn over what we know.

  DA Adam Schiff : And give this three-time rapist a chance to bluff the jury!

  ADA Claire Kincaid : That can't be a consideration.

  DA Adam Schiff : Oh, it sure as hell can.

  ADA Claire Kincaid : At the risk of committing reversible error? How many times do we want to re-try Munoz?

  DA Adam Schiff : As many times as it takes! We're legally, morally and ethically entitled to keep this information from him - and that's exactly what we're gonna do.