Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Info Wars (2018)

Raúl Esparza: ADA Rafael Barba

Quotes 

• Rafael Barba : [to Justin Vichinsky]  You believe that Martha Cobb is a right-wing extremist?

  Justin Vichinsky : Yeah, except she's way worse than the people that she provokes. Like she has any idea what it's like to be a hardworking American with her prep-school privilege and her gated Bel Air mansion. Sure, she presents as this blonde beach bunny, but in reality, she's the Joseph Goebbels of the alt-right propaganda machine and we need to stop her by any means necessary.

  Rafael Barba : Hmm. Disgust, lack of control, rage. You just checked all the boxes on the rapist checklist, Mr. Vichinsky.

• Rafael Barba : [about Martha Cobb]  Well, let's just say that she doesn't present as your typical rape victim.

  Olivia Benson : How do you mean? Martha Cobb has made a career out of playing fast and loose with the facts.

  Rafael Barba : Fact: She was raped.

  Olivia Benson : Right, and that doesn't endow her with sainthood.

• Rafael Barba : Don't you just love free speech? You get what you paid for.

  Olivia Benson : A dismissal? That's what you came up with?

  Rafael Barba : How would you have voted?

  Olivia Benson : Look, whether or not I believe her, this woman deserves her day in court.

  Rafael Barba : But this case stopped being a search for the truth. It turned into a Rorschach test about which side butters your political bread.

• Rafael Barba : You're in my seat.

  Jed Karey : Well, I was at the legal aid bar. Too many lawyers buying me drinks. I literally had ten beers lined up in front of me on the bar.

  Rafael Barba : That is such a nice perk for representing a rapist.

• Rafael Barba : You heard.

  Olivia Benson : How bad was it?

  Rafael Barba : The Titanic meets the Hindenburg meets my first year of Little League. Martha never mentioned that she spurned a sexual overture from Randy Platt the night before the assault?

  Olivia Benson : No.

  Rafael Barba : Why the hell not?

  Olivia Benson : I'm gonna find out.

• Rafael Barba : The People are unable to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Justin Vichinsky sexually assaulted Martha Cobb. Accordingly, I move to dismiss the indictment.

  Jed Karey : The defense joins in this motion.

  Judge Heshy Horowitz : This is highly unusual, Mr. Barba. Are you sure that's what you want to do?

  Rafael Barba : I am sure that the perpetrator of this crime will never be known to a legal certainty.

  Judge Heshy Horowitz : I appreciate your candor. Very few prosecutors would have the courage to make this call. The case is dismissed.

• Randy Platt : I'm here because I was served with a subpoena, and I obey the law unlike some other individuals.

  Jed Karey : Why'd you attend Martha Cobb's speech at Hudson University, Mr. Platt?

  Randy Platt : Because we knew the antifa cucks and the "Black Lies Matter" crybabies would try to stop her from speaking.

  Jed Karey : Now, who's this "we" you're referring to?

  Randy Platt : I'm the leader of a group called Patriots of the American Way.

  Jed Karey : Right, yeah. According to your website, its mission statement is to, "Purge the country of degenerate filth and create a white ethno-state"?

  Randy Platt : That's right.

  Jed Karey : Well, just so we understand this clearly, which members of the jury would your group want to purge?

  Rafael Barba : Objection.

  Judge Heshy Horowitz : I'll allow it.

  [to Platt] 

  Judge Heshy Horowitz : You may answer.

  Randy Platt : [points out nonwhite jurors]  Him, her, her, him, her.

  Juror : [angrily rises from his seat]  Step out of this courtroom, and I'll kick the living crap out of you.

  [all talking indistinctly; gavel bangs] 

  Judge Heshy Horowitz : All right, let's all take it easy.

  Randy Platt : Oh, and just to finish my answer flannel shirt in the back row. I can't tell if he's a Jew and/or a homosexual. We'd have to conduct some research into him.

• Jed Karey : Is this one of your books with a picture of you in a skimpy outfit on the cover?

  Martha Cobb : Yes. That "skimpy outfit" put me on the "New York Times" best-seller list for 43 straight weeks.

  Jed Karey : So, what are you selling your readers, Ms. Cobb? Ideas or T and A?

  Rafael Barba : Objection!

  Martha Cobb : This is all very entertaining, but do you really wanna ask me about my ass after what I've been through?

  Jed Karey : Withdrawn!