Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
Murdered at a Bad Address (2019)
Wentworth Miller: A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes
Quotes
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A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : So you did it?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hi.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : From detective to ADA. How's it going?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, I miss my gun and the, uh, pay cut's no fun, but I still remember what you said my first year at Fordham Law.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Yeah, what was that?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Better 100 guilty men go free than one innocent man be condemned.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : You know I was quoting Voltaire.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Of course, but it was the way... the way you said it. It was like you believed in it.
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A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : So, Carlos and Ricky were gay lovers, and he can't give that alibi because he'll be raped inside.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : That's right.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : And you brought this happy news to me because... I'm gay.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : No, but it doesn't hurt. I also knew that you have a justice gene buried under that jaded Queens Boulevard veneer.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Look, maybe we can get him protective custody while he's awaiting trial.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Protective custody with his history? PTSD, depression... he could suicide. Look, I'm... I'm asking you to help me spring an innocent man.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Give me a night's sleep to figure out what Voltaire would do.
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Judge Mary Connor : Counselor, you're representing the defendant, Carlos Hernandez?
Legal Aid : Yes, Your Honor.
Judge Mary Connor : I understand you have a motion?
Legal Aid : I do. Based on new exculpatory evidence, defense moves to vacate the sentence of Carlos Hernandez.
Judge Mary Connor : People?
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : The People believe there's been a miscarriage of justice in this case, Your Honor. Due to newly discovered DNA evidence implicating a serial predator in these crimes, the People ask that this verdict be vacated.
Judge Mary Connor : Mr. Hernandez, please stand.
[Carlos does so]
Judge Mary Connor : Carlos Hernandez, I apologize on behalf of the state of New York for your wrongful imprisonment that has cost you 16 years of your life. It is my duty today to vacate this unjust conviction. You are free to go. Bailiffs, take off those chains.
Odafin Tutuola : You can walk like a man now, Carlos.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : A free man.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : Hey, the transport van just dropped Carlos off outside of the courthouse. You wanna tell me what's going on, counselor?
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Keane signed the vacate order.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : He did? That's great. H-How'd you get him to... to do that?
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : He may have thought he was graciously signing a letter of recommendation for my law school application.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : All right, I didn't hear that, and... and you did not say that, but thank you.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Welcome to Queens. Let's go do this before the ink dries or any of his deputies find out.
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Dominick Carisi Jr. : Did you get a chance to go over the case file?
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Carlos Hernandez had a terrible lawyer. He and Ricky, they were kids. They had their whole lives taken from them.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : So you can help Carlos get out?
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Look, it's tough to get any D.A. to overturn a case, let alone over here in Queens. But a rape and double murder my boss built his career on?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : There's no DNA. Manhattan SVU has matched it to a guy who's good for a series of housing project rapes.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Did he confess to this? Why would he? He knows it's a closed case, two confessions.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Well, they both recanted. Ricky in a dying declaration.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Yeah, I read that, too.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : I know this was Keane's case, but once he hears the preponderance of exculpatory evidence...
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Well, you haven't heard... about Keane.
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A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : Mr. Keane, this is Manhattan ADA Carisi.
D.A. Patrick Keane : Nice to meet you, sir.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : You, too, Mr. Keane. Sir, I don't know if you've had the chance to-to look over the...
D.A. Patrick Keane : What case are you here about?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : The double homicide of Nydia and Jacinta Hernandez in Far Rockaway.
D.A. Patrick Keane : You know why it's called Far Rockaway?
Dominick Carisi Jr. : Uh... no, sir, actually, I don't.
D.A. Patrick Keane : Because it's way far out.
A.D.A. Isaiah Holmes : It was also the scene of a brutal double murder. It was your case, Mr. Keane.
Dominick Carisi Jr. : The victim's son confessed, but his lawyer knew that there was DNA at the scene. He didn't ask for it to be tested.