Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Fallacy (2003)

Fred Thompson: DA Arthur Branch

Quotes 

• Arthur Branch : [to Cabot]  What's this I hear about you wanting off the Avery case?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I just don't think I'm the right person to try it.

  Arthur Branch : That's not what I heard. You've made several impassioned arguments on her behalf. Perhaps you'd like to defend her instead.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Well, she could use better representation than that self-serving snake Berger.

  Arthur Branch : Reptile though he may be, Morty Berger's a damn good attorney. He deserves a worthy adversary.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I think I'm more sympathetic to Cheryl than a prosecutor should be.

  Arthur Branch : A good A.D.A. has to think on both sides of the fence. Your empathy is a strength, not a weakness.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : You know, if Cheryl had been born a woman, a jury would have no problem acquitting her.

  Arthur Branch : She killed a man. What do you care what sex she is?

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : Because that, and not the evidence is what's going to convict her.

  Arthur Branch : No, what's going to convict her is a jury of her peers, not angels or divine ethical beings.

  ADA Alexandra Cabot : I suppose it bothers me more than it should.

  Arthur Branch : Well, I'll reassign the case if you like, but you might want to consider: who's gonna give Cheryl Avery the fairest treatment? You or some other prosecutor who'll put her gender on trial?