Law & Order (TV Series)

The Secret Sharers (1991)

Michael Moriarty: Executive ADA Ben Stone

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Quotes 

• Shambala Green : We're pleading temporary insanity.

  Ben Stone : What, yours or your client's?

• Adam Schiff : If Judge Markham doesn't dismiss; the whole thing is circumstantial. The girl works for a priest, no less. To a jury, she's practically got a halo.

  Ben Stone : Do you have any helpful suggestions?

• [last lines] 

  Paul Robinette : How many times have you given me the "you don't win every time" speech?

  Ben Stone : I don't mind losing, Paul.

  Paul Robinette : Could've fooled me.

  Ben Stone : What I do mind is that twelve honest citizens knew that he was guilty, and acquitted him.

  Paul Robinette : Well, they were flim-flammed on the self-defense.

  Ben Stone : They knew they were being flim-flammed, and they still acquitted him... and that's frightening.

• Ben Stone : The commandment says, "Thou shalt not kill". It does not say, "Thou shalt not kill *nice* people".

• Chet Burton : You may not like my style, Mr. Stone, but this I believe: You don't put people in prison for defending their loved ones.

  Ben Stone : Defending or avenging?

  Chet Burton : I'll let the jury split that hair.

• Ben Stone : Lucy was raped on Wednesday; Urbano was shot on Saturday. Your client was insane for three days?