How can that be? What's wrong with the law that we can't touch him? Oh... I know. Our kind of laws are designed to protect the innocent. It's not enough that we know a man is guilty. We have to prove it.
19 seconds sound clip from the The Enforcer (1951) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:17:46.975 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- It doesn't make any sense. A man commits murders, and there is nobody around to testify against him.
- All right, what's our legal position?
- Mendoza's lawyers will go to court tomorrow morning, ask for dismissal, and get it. Like that.
- There's nothing we can hold him on?
- I couldn't even give him 30 days.
- In 7 more hours, Mendoza walks out of that court room a free man.
- Ever have a tune run through your head, and you can't remember the words?
- How many people did we speak to on this case?
- How many pages of testimony do you suppose we took?
- Enough to fill a nice-sized room.
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