American Crime Story (TV Series)

The Dream Team (2016)

Evan Handler: Alan Dershowitz

Quotes 

• Alan Dershowitz : Barry, clarify your strategy.

  Barry Scheck : OK. I'm not going to contest the DNA matches. I'm going to keep them out of court entirely. If it can be shown that there may have been errors in the collection or the handling of the samples used for the prosecution's DNA analysis, we can contest the validity of the evidence itself. At best, we get some of it thrown out, at worst, we get the jury to question it, the very idea.

  Alan Dershowitz : We will attack every assumption, question every single molecule of evidence, every aspect of how that molecule was gathered, handled, and analyzed. We will disrupt their presentation of physical evidence at every turn. We will hack at them. Make every piece of evidence presented either thrown out, untrustworthy, or confusing. No quarter.

• Larry King : Alan Dershowitz, in all your years, have you ever seen a sensational, tragic case like this?

  Alan Dershowitz : In a short word, Larry, no. The evidence against Simpson is overwhelming.

  Larry King : All right, Alan, what about a plea deal? Could that be in the cards?

  Alan Dershowitz : Larry, settling is Robert Shapiro's specialty, much more than actually trying cases in a courtroom. But with a vicious double murder, then Simpson attempting escape, no. O.J. Simpson is gonna stand trial for two counts of murder one, maybe special circumstances.

  Robert Shapiro : [watching on TV]  Aw, go to hell, Dershowitz! Do you see what I'm up against here? They've got me down as the schmuck that'll walk O.J. to the gas chamber, and then the most famous lawyer in the whole country is gonna dictate and narrate it on "Larry King Live."

  F. Lee Bailey : You think Alan's the most famous lawyer in the country? Thank God he's so photogenic.

  Robert Shapiro : How do I shut him up? How do you shut Dershowitz up?

  F. Lee Bailey : I like Alan, but he's a smug son of a bitch. Every fifteenth word is "Harvard."