- Adam Schiff: If Judge Markham doesn't dismiss; the whole thing is circumstantial. The girl works for a priest, no less. To a jury, she's practically got a halo.
- Ben Stone: Do you have any helpful suggestions?
- [last lines]
- Paul Robinette: How many times have you given me the "you don't win every time" speech?
- Ben Stone: I don't mind losing, Paul.
- Paul Robinette: Could've fooled me.
- Ben Stone: What I do mind is that twelve honest citizens knew that he was guilty, and acquitted him.
- Paul Robinette: Well, they were flim-flammed on the self-defense.
- Ben Stone: They knew they were being flim-flammed, and they still acquitted him... and that's frightening.
- Ben Stone: The commandment says, "Thou shalt not kill". It does not say, "Thou shalt not kill *nice* people".
- Mrs. Anna Rivers: I talked to Shambala, the lawyer.
- Paul Robinette: Miss Green is a Legal Aid lawyer. Legal Aid loses two-thirds of its cases; the district attorney wins two-thirds. Do you want to gamble with Miss Green?
- Chet Burton: You may not like my style, Mr. Stone, but this I believe: You don't put people in prison for defending their loved ones.
- Ben Stone: Defending or avenging?
- Chet Burton: I'll let the jury split that hair.
- Detective Mike Logan: Now we get a warrant.
- Sergeant Max Greevey: You want to face this guy without backup?
- Detective Mike Logan: I don't want to face this guy without nuclear weapons.
- Ben Stone: Lucy was raped on Wednesday; Urbano was shot on Saturday. Your client was insane for three days?
- Chet Burton: Where I come from, all the men got shotguns in their pickups, and a can of beer in their hands. My shotgun stays in the house, and I drink California Cabernet. But in my heart, I'm still a bubba.
- Sergeant Max Greevey: [outside a suspect's door, whispering] This is not going to give easily.
- Hector: [Mike knocks on the door] Who is it?
- Detective Mike Logan: Con-Ed, we have a gas leak.
- [Hector opens and tries to shut the door]
- Detective Mike Logan: Police! Search warrant!
- [forces it open]