Reading Legal Dramas Prints

"You're in deeper than we thought."

"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?'

'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.'

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

"Mr. Pope, please give this summons to your boss. The prosecutor wants to know how god can allow so much misery."

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

"Another slander suit!"

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

'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."

"I'll never understand it. I followed the generally accepted principles of embezzling."

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

Say what? Johnnie Cochran died in 2005?

'For ever 'no-no' there's a legal 'yes-yes'.'

"We, the jury, find the defendant."

'Do your lawyers have to be here?'

"You don't have to answer that."

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

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

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Esq.

"Your Honor, the witness, in my opinion, has failed to establish credibility."

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

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

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

'Who do you think you're kidding? -- You lifted that alibi from a September, 1958 episode of 'Perry Mason!'

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