Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989 TV Movie)

Matthew Laurance: Marvin Bernstein

Quotes 

• Marvin Bernstein : Juries cannot deal with satanism.

  Miriam Stossburg : Oh, yeah. juries can't deal with it, Well, you know what, kids don't deal with it so well either.

• Marvin Bernstein : [after Sandy reveals that he's been molested by the Richardsons]  Why did he wait 10 years?

  Kendra Dollison : The woman bent his mind. She convinced him that he liked what she was doing to him. She laid guilt on a 4-year-old child. Now wouldn't you have kept quiet about that?

• Marvin Bernstein : Because we didn't want you to read about these indictments for the first time in the papers, so here it is. Tomorrow, the district attorney will announce indictments against two defendants, Mavis and Arthur Richardson on 37 separate counts of child molestation and sexual abuse.

  Paula Stockman : What about the other two?

  Marvin Bernstein : We've elected not to indict either Miss Larrimer or George Olin.

  [the crowd murmurs] 

  Parent : Miss Larrimer raped my daughter!

  Ellis Stockman : What do you have to do around here to get indicted?

  Marvin Bernstein : Your daughter is only two. A two-year-old is not a good witness. You have to realize that we want to make cases we can win. There just wasn't enough evidence against the other two teachers.

  Ellis Stockman : You telling us you let them walk?

  Marvin Bernstein : They've left the community, yes.

  [the crowd murmurs] 

  Marvin Bernstein : In the absence of an indictment, they are entirely within their rights.

  Ellis Stockman : That's crap, Bernstein! i ran NCIC's on all four of these freaks. Susan Larrimer has a record. She was tried in Kentucky for molesting a retarded kid.

  Marvin Bernstein : And she was acquitted. It isn't a crime to be accused of a felony.

• Miriam Stossburg : [about Susan Larrimer]  Yeah, you've got to admit. Somebody screwed up. How did she get a job at Tiny Tots.

  Paula Stockman : Didn't anyone from the licensing board check this woman?

  Marvin Bernstein : Look, you entrusted your children to these people. The defense is going to harp on that. Nobody including you knows what a child molester looks like. So don't go after all the people who should've known. You should've known.

• Marvin Bernstein : Listen, listen. We need your children as witnesses. The defense is going to try to destroy their credibility on the stand. If you don't support their children, if you don't help them testify, you have no prayer of getting a conviction, none and I promise you every person in this room is going to want to give up before this trial is over.