- Judge Alan Berman: Miss Green. Delightful to see you. You grace my courtroom so rarely.
- Shambala Green: Certainly not by choice, Your Honor.
- Judge Alan Berman: Tell your client it's time to say the magic words.
- Shambala Green: [Whispers] Not guilty.
- Angela Brandt: Not guilty.
- Paul Robinette: Your Honor, with a case this strong, the People see a substantial flight risk. We request $250,000.
- Shambala Green: The defendant has custody of her daughter, Your Honor. High bail would be a serious hardship.
- Judge Alan Berman: She should've thought of her child before she became a prostitute.
- Shambala Green: Did it ever occur to Your Honor that some women become prostitutes in order to support their children?
- Judge Alan Berman: How stupid of me. God forbid you should get a regular job. And let me point out, Miss Green, for your next visit, that's a table, not a soapbox. Bail is $150,000. Short date. In honor of motherhood.
- [Bangs gavel]
- Gym Manager: Are you sure this is legal?
- Phil Cerreta: We have your permission. That makes it legal.
- Gym Manager: What if I didn't give permission?
- Phil Cerreta: Then we've to go and get a warrant, come back tomorrow and close you down for a whole day, instead of just your locker room for an hour.
- Mike Logan: Hey, Phil. You know the warrant you told that healthclub guy you'd get? Exactly what probable cause did you have in mind?
- Phil Cerreta: A senile judge.
- Betty Ann Carter: Sure he asked me to do it. $2,500 a week on my back instead of $500 on my feet.
- Mike Logan: Well, it must've been tempting.
- Betty Ann Carter: Maybe to you. But, honey, I don't think you'd survive. In my experience, cops just can't perform that often.
- Phil Cerreta: So, you never turned a trick, huh?
- Betty Ann Carter: Those beauty contests, some cracker judge would put his hands on my ass and offer me more money than I'd ever seen to be his date. I didn't do it then, I don't do it now. That doesn't mean I have any cause to look down on those who do.
- Mike Logan: That's real democratic of you.
- Betty Ann Carter: Well, it's a free country. At least I don't drink from the taxpayer's trough, like some people.
- Phil Cerreta: Did Mr. Decker try to put pressure on you?
- Betty Ann Carter: Oh, every time I was there. He'd be at his little computer, adding up the money the girls would bring. But I told him, "Honey, you can type till your fingers fall off. I work vertical or not at all."
- D.A. Adam Schiff: [Face-palming, irritated by multiple foolish errors made by the detectives] When did we turn this office over to the Marx Brothers?