Law & Order (TV Series)
I.D. (1996)
Alan Manson: Chief Administrative Judge
Quotes
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Chief Administrative Judge : The district attorney brought this matter to me with some reluctance.
Judge Nathan Marks : Well-deserved. I'm trying to run a trial; I don't have time to...
Chief Administrative Judge : Make some. I'm taking this seriously.
Judge Nathan Marks : Because a young woman can't take a joke?
A.D.A. Jamie Ross : I'm not pressing any charge.
Chief Administrative Judge : She could! You should thank her.
Judge Nathan Marks : Fine; thanks. Goodbye.
Chief Administrative Judge : I'm more concerned about the general tenor of this trial.
Judge Nathan Marks : You know how I run a trial, George.
Chief Administrative Judge : Yes - expeditiously. And usually, fairly.
Judge Nathan Marks : *Always* fairly.
Jack McCoy : You've been hostile to the people. Demeaning to their representatives, interfering with their witnesses...
Judge Nathan Marks : You expect me to sit there like a lump, while he springs surprise witnesses? Half-baked appeals, revised indictments? To turn my courtroom inside out - to win a case he should have lost the first time!
Chief Administrative Judge : Nathan - you're not supposed to care who wins, remember?
D.A. Adam Schiff : ...Your honor, I'd like to request...
Chief Administrative Judge : No need. Nathan, you just caught a bad case of the flu, and are unable to continue presiding over this trial. I'm assigning Judge Bryant.
Judge Nathan Marks : George...
Chief Administrative Judge : Would you rather be sick? Or be facing the commission on judicial conduct?