Law & Order (TV Series)

For Love or Money (2001)

Jack Gilpin: Defense Attorney Mr. Axtell

Quotes 

• Jack McCoy : Your Honor can't seriously entertain the notion that a defendant can benefit in one murder by killing the witness by committing another.

  Judge Donald Karan : I didn't draft the Constitution, Mr. McCoy.

  Jack McCoy : No, but you can interpret it. These two cases are inextricably linked. What's the good of proving that the defendant had an opportunity to kill Buck if I can't show the jury why?

  Judge Donald Karan : You raise a good point.

  Mr. Axtell : Your Honor, any mention of the Colbin murder would prejudice the jury irreparably.

  Judge Donald Karan : Which is why I won't allow these two homicides to be tried together.

  Jack McCoy : Your Honor...

  Judge Donald Karan : However, what I will do is allow the People to present evidence of Alan Colbin's murder, only insofar as it pertains to motive in the murder of Ronald Buck.

  [seeing McCoy and Axtell both don't like his decision] 

  Judge Donald Karan : Ooh, I always know I'm right when neither party's happy.