Law & Order (TV Series)

Guardian (1995)

Gerry Bamman: Dean Pollard

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• Dean Pollard : [at suppression hearing]  The police knew that they had no grounds for a warrant to search his car, so they decided to wait until they could ambush him in his car and they could conduct what they called this inventory-search. It's laughable, Your Honor.

  E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy : Not to the Court of Appeals: People v. Galak. The need to conduct an inventory of a prisoner's personal effects provides its own rationale for searching those effects.

  Dean Pollard : Well, they vacuumed the carpet, Your Honor. What were they doing an inventory of? Dust mites? And the officers had the arrest warrant for 16 hours before they decided to pick up my client.

  Judge Luis Rodriguez : How about it, Mr.McCoy? Why the delay?

  E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy : A defendant has no constitutional or statutory right to a speedy arrest. I can cite People v. Bryant on that one.

  Judge Luis Rodriguez : A Trial Term opinion? Please! Even Mr. Magoo could see right through this. Motion to suppress is granted.