Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime (1994)

Joseph Maher: Judge #1, Judge #2, Judge #3

Quotes 

• Judge #1 : So you were the lawyer that took down Medi-Heart.

  Geraldine Ferrett : Yeah, $56 million, not a bad payday.

  Judge #1 : Amazing.

  Geraldine Ferrett : Thank you.

  Judge #1 : That a jury could fall for such a load of garbage.

  Geraldine Ferrett : Hey, I proved my case, and my clients were victims of a callous medical establishment.

  Judge #1 : In 10 years' of use outside the laboratory the Cardi-Tark-7 Pacemaker never failed, ever.

  Geraldine Ferrett : Uh, that's irrelevant, we all know mechanical devices break. We provided the jury with a range of psychological proofs that the wares of the Medi-Heart pacemakers my clients burdened with that knowledge, suffered life shortening daily trauma.

• Judge #2 : You're charged with the illegal solicitation of services in this court, how plead you?

  Austin Haggard : We plead not guilty, by reason of temporary insanity. Your client, My Honor is...

  [takes cards out and reads them] 

  Austin Haggard : Your Honor, my client is the actual victim here. As a child she was psychologically abused by her entire family. She repressed these horrors until recently, and this inner turmoil made her act irrationally on the occasion in question.

  Judge #2 : [laughs]  What a load of... guilty as charged. You ready for sentencing?

  Geraldine Ferrett : Is that your strategy? Are you crazy?

  Austin Haggard : I believe you used the same defense yourself on a number of occasions, I guess I just did not do it right, I am sorry.

  [power flickers as a man is heard screaming while electrocuted]