The Best Linda Rothman Quotes

Linda: How are you holding up?
Rusty: Fantastic. Thanks for asking.
Linda: Fantastic? Is that why your guardian asked the psychologist Dr. Joseph Bowman to perform an evaluation of your mental status, because you're fantastic?
Rusty: No. That was... um... that was for another reason.
Linda: What reason?
Rusty: It was related to a lie that I told Captain Raydor.
Linda: So you're still lying to the police? Surprised. About what this time? About what did you lie to the police?
Rusty: I don't think I can say.
Linda: Your Honor?
Rusty: I, I, I can't... I can't answer that. I really can't...
Linda: Your Honor?
Judge: Rusty, you will answer truthfully, as you have been sworn to do: About what did you lie to the police?
Rusty: I lied about all of the threatening letters I had received about my testimony against Phillip Stroh.
Linda: Your Honor, I object!
Judge: To your own question? Too late. You asked and demanded an answer, and now these letters are on the record. I'd like to read them, DDA Rios, if you could hand them over after we're done here today.

D.D.A. Emma Rios: That's the call the people's witness described making to the authorities, the call that helped the LAPD find and unearth four murdered girls buried in Griffith Park, the call that led this young man to be detained by the police, to be attacked by Phillip Stroh, to be threatened at the defendant's instigation from giving his testimony here today...
Linda: Objection! Your Honor, the prosecution can present no evidence that my client attempted to intimidate Russell in any way.
D.D.A. Emma Rios: Your Honor, we have almost thirty threatening letters sent to...
Linda: The authenticity of those letters is doubtful at best.
D.D.A. Emma Rios: Doubtful? Doubtful? That's not what you were saying three hours ago...
Judge: Hold on, ladies! Hold on. I don't allow cross-talk in this courtroom. You'll address me, not each other. First... what are these threatening letters?
D.D.A. Emma Rios: Your Honor, both this boy and his guardian Captain Raydor received menacing letters suggesting terrible things would happen if they continued to assist the prosecution. The people intend to link those letters...
Judge: What you intend to do and what you can prove today are two different things. Neither the prosecution, nor the witness may enter these letters into the record during the hearing if Ms. Rothman objects.