Designated Survivor (TV Series)

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Jeff White: A.D.A. Wilbur Corso

Quotes 

• Kendra Daynes : Officer, are you familiar with departmental quotas?

  A.D.A. Wilbur Corso : Objection. Relevance.

  Kendra Daynes : Goes to pretext.

  Judge Verna Schroeder : I'll allow it.

• Kendra Daynes : Officer, how many arrests did you make in September?

  Officer Rudy : 43.

  Kendra Daynes : How many arrests in October?

  Officer Rudy : 47.

  Kendra Daynes : How many in November?

  [Rudy is reluctant to say] 

  Kendra Daynes : Officer.

  Officer Rudy : Twelve.

  Kendra Daynes : Did you apply unsuccessfully to the Detective division in each of the last three years?

  A.D.A. Wilbur Corso : Is there a point here, Judge?

  Kendra Daynes : Yes, and Officer Rudy has made it. A "furtive gesture" made by a man with no criminal record leads to a search by a beat cop who's been bucking for a promotion and has had a decidedly subpar month.

• Kendra Daynes : One last question, Your Honor. Officer, of the twenty-six vehicle searches you've made this year that resulted in arrests, how many of them were suppressed as illegal searches?

  A.D.A. Wilbur Corso : Judge, really?

  Judge Verna Schroeder : I'd like to hear it.

  Officer Rudy : Fourteen.

  A.D.A. Wilbur Corso : Judge, that's not material.

  Judge Verna Schroeder : I disagree. The People have to carry the burden of showing probable cause. Given the circumstances, I'm not convinced that burden has been met. The indictment is dismissed.