Presumed Innocent (film)

"David Wohl - Morrie Dickerman"

"The murder of Carolyn Polhemus remains unsolved. It is a practical impossibility to try two people for the same crime. Even if it wasn't, I couldn't take his mother from my son. I am a prosecutor. I have spent my life in the assignment of blame. With all deliberation and intent, I reached for Carolyn. I cannot pretend it was an accident. I reached for Carolyn, and set off that insane mix of rage and lunacy that led one human being to kill another. There was a crime. There was a victim. And there is punishment."

"There are one hundred and fifty lawyers down there. Couldn't they find someone who didn't fuck her to handle the case?"

"You understand what happened had to happen. It couldn't have turned out any other way. A woman's depressed - with herself, with life. With her husband, who had made life possible for her, until he was bewitched by another woman. A destroyer. Abandoned. Like someone left for dead. She plans her suicide, until the dream begins. In the dream, the destroyer is destroyed. That's a dream worth living for. Now, with such simplicity, such clarity, everything falls into place. It must be a crime that her husband can declare unsolved and be believed by all the world. She must make it look like a rape, but she must leave her husband the clues. Once he discovers who it was, he'll put the case into the file of unsolved murders. Another break-in by some sex-crazed man. But all his life, he'll know that it was her. She remembers a set of glasses she bought for the woman some time before - a housewarming gift from her husband and his office. She buys another set. Her husband has a beer one night - doesn't even comment on the glass. Now she has his fingerprints. Then on a few mornings, she saves the fluid that comes out when she removes her diaphragm. Puts it in a plastic bag. Puts the bag in the basement freezer, and waits. She calls the woman and asks to see her. Stops first at the U and logs into the computer. Now she has her alibi."

"Sometimes it's dangerous to presume."

"Attraction. Desire. Deception. Murder. No one is ever completely innocent."

"Some people would kill for love."

"Harrison Ford - Rozat "Rusty" Sabich"

"Brian Dennehy - Raymond Horgan"

"Raúl Juliá - Alejandro "Sandy" Stern"

"Bonnie Bedelia - Barbara Sabich"

"Paul Winfield - Judge Larren Lyttle"

"Greta Scacchi - Carolyn Polhemus"

"John Spencer - Det. Dan Lipranzer"

"Joe Grifasi - Tommy Molto"

"Tom Mardirosian - Nico Della Guardia"

"Sab Shimono - Dr. Kumagai"

"Bradley Whitford - Jamie Kemp"

"Christine Estabrook - Lydia MacDougall"

"Michael Tolan - Mr. Polhemus"

"Jesse Bradford - Nat Sabich"

"Joseph Mazzello - Wendell McGaffen"

"Tucker Smallwood - Det. Harold Greer"

"I am a prosecutor. I am a part of the business of accusing, judging and punishing. I explore the evidence of a crime and determine who is charged, who is brought to this room to be tried before his peers. I present my evidence to the jury and they deliberate upon it. They must determine what really happened. If they cannot, we will not know if the accused deserves to be freed or should be punished. If they cannot find the truth, what is our hope of justice?"