Law & Order (TV Series)

Gaijin (2004)

Spencer Garrett: Defense Attorney Stephen Olson

Quotes 

• Stephen Olson : Your Honor, my client cannot possibly receive a fair trial in any of the five boroughs. Public opinion is clearly against him.

  Jack McCoy : Mr. Yoshida stages a murder, fabricates a story, blames the city, inflames public opinion, and now he raises the possible backlash as a basis for change of venue?

  Stephen Olson : The point is my jury pool is made up of the very people he badmouthed.

  Judge Thomas Everton : Mr. Olson, where would you propose I move this case, were I so inclined?

  Stephen Olson : Any location other than New York City. Upstate someplace.

  Jack McCoy : Where they share Mr. Yoshida's low opinion of New York City.

  Judge Thomas Everton : Counselor, relax. It was just a hypothetical. Change of venue is reserved for cases that present a bias so pervasive that it cannot be overcome in the normal process of jury selection.

  Stephen Olson : Your Honor, my client is presumed innocent. And as such, is entitled to an unbiased jury.

  Judge Thomas Everton : That's what voir dire is for.