Chess Legal Drama Mugs

"You moved two spaced and then one space to the side? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that sure sounds illegal."

'How do you plead, in twenty-five words or less?'

"After I graduate middle school, high school and college, I'll go to law school to get you out of this. But I want my retainer now."

First you're a law student, then you're a lawyer, then you're a judge, then you're a politician, then you're a criminal.

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

"Not guilty?"

"The prosecution shall stop referring to the defendant as 'the alleged, totally guilty as sin guy'."

"I'm sorry, sir, but I've got to ask you another question. I heard someone in the courtroom shout out the correct answer."

'Do you expect the jury to believe that? And, more importantly, do you expect the viewers of the eventual TV movie of this trial to believe it?'

"Another slander suit!"

'Your honor, I'd like a short recess so my client can make a run for it.'

'I haven't spent a day in jail since I got rid of my lawyer and hired a spinmeister.'

"Before the defense rests, my client would like to read you a little sonnet he composed about his love for the jury."

"The last time I was in Europe was 4 boyfriends ago..."

"Boy is he good! He's even got me convinced you're guilty!"

'Way too much information on your resume.'

'No need to text me the answer to that. I'm right here.'

'Furthermore, had a handrail been fitted to the wall , my client would not be sitting here now.'

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, my client blah blah...."

"We, the jury, find the defendant."

'Do your lawyers have to be here?'

Say what? Johnnie Cochran died in 2005?

"You don't have to answer that."

"In my client's defence, the label on the bottle clearly read, 'rat poison'...not 'people poison'."

'I bet this is going to be another round of criminal bashing, isn't it?'

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Esq.

Robert Macaire as a Barrister

The court freezes my assets and wants me to live on $20K per month? They want me to starve!

'He'll be really p****d if he doesn't get nominated for an award this year.'

'Your honor, we are appealing on grounds the post-trial book deals didn't match the pre-trial publicity.'

"In a surprising turn of events, the end testifies against the means."

'I will not have the species card played in my courtroom, Counselor.'

"We the jury find that the murder was committed by Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick!"

'Are you sure you saw my client do it? Let me remind you, it takes one to know one.'