Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
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Diane Neal: ADA Casey Novak
Quotes
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[Novak seeks legal advice on how to prosecute a boy who killed his younger brother]
Judge Mary Conway Clark : Do you feel this boy deserves to be charged? Do you feel the facts fit the charges under the penal law? Did he have intent?
A.D.A. Casey Novak : I don't know what he was thinking.
Judge Mary Conway Clark : Well, find out. And find out why your defendant isn't rebelling against his mother like a normal teenage boy.
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Judge Lois Preston : [to Miss Shamal] How does your client plead?
Attorney Shamal : Not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Adam Nesbit : Excuse me, ma'am, but she's wrong. I did it. I'm guilty.
Attorney Shamal : Adam...
Judge Lois Preston : Miss Shamal, please explain to your client that his statements can be used against him.
Adam Nesbit : I shot my brother. I know I have to go to jail.
Attorney Shamal : Your Honor, I ask that Adam's remarks be stricken and a plea of "Not Guilty" be entered.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Your client just confessed to murdering his brother again.
Attorney Shamal : Which shows that he is clearly not competent to assist in his own defense.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : The People will show Adam knows right from wrong and should be allowed to enter the plea of his choice.
Attorney Shamal : He's an emotionally disturbed adolescent. He can't make that choice.
Judge Lois Preston : Enough. I'm ordering a 730 exam. Until the shrinks weigh in, he's not guilty.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : [about Marilyn Nesbit after Dr. Huang talks to her] How can she be reading the paper as if nothing happened?
Dr. George Huang : Because she has a borderline personality disorder. She compartmentalizes the world, she's always right and anyone who challenges her is not only wrong but her enemy.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : Including her children.
Dr. George Huang : Absolutely. Adam always obeyed her and so he was good. Jacob didn't, so that made him bad.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : So she doesn't really love them?
Dr. George Huang : It's a twisted, narcissistic kind of love.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : What should I call you when I'm begging for advice?
Judge Mary Conway Clark : Brilliant.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : Thank you for seeing me, Judge.
Judge Mary Conway Clark : Oh, Casey, stop calling me "Judge." I'm not on the bench anymore.
A.D.A. Casey Novak : It's a habit from when I used to clerk for you.
Judge Mary Conway Clark : And when we're having drinks, call me Mary.
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A.D.A. Casey Novak : Bringing up Adam with paranoid ideas isn't against the law. You can raise your kid to be a racist so long as it doesn't cause harm.