“This court finds that the seizure of His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty was an act of mutiny by Fletcher Christian and others of her crew, and that her captain Lieutenant William Bligh is, in the opinion of this court, to be exonerated of all blame on this occasion.”
Laurence Olivier - Admiral Hood

“They brought Xi into a place where there were several people. He smiled at them in greeting. But nobody smiled back.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“The first time I walked into a courtroom I looked around. I asked my father, who are the whores - and who are the spectators?”
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca

“- Jerome Facher: What's your take?
- Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
- Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.”

Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“The street is the only thing that matters. Court is for uptown people with suits, money, lawyers with three names. If you got cash you can buy court justice. But on the street, justice has no price. She's blind where the judge sits but she's not blind out here. Out here the bitch got eyes.”
Frank Medrano - Fat Mancho