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- Fine. Then try the son of a bitch and be done with it.

- We have to give him a trial, but under what law?
Caprican? Picon? Tauron? Do we give him a jury trial? Do we set up a tribunal?
We don’t even have anything closely resembling a comprehensive law library, and this fleet is not exactly brimming with legal talent.

- You bring lawyers into this, they’re gonna drag you around for months.

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– I am ready to set up an organizing committee, but frankly, trying to get a room full of legal scholars to stay on task is like herding cats.
And so, I need to set up a chairman of this committee.
Somebody who can make a hard decision, and who won’t get seduced and bogged down by all the legalese.

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We can use the lawyers to parse the law, but we really need people who actually know the difference between right and wrong. »

Battlestar Galactica, Saison 3, Episode 15