The Verdict (1982)

Colin Stinton: Billy

Quotes 

• Billy : His name is Dr. Lionel Thompson. City College of New York, Class of '28. Bachelor of Science; New York College of Medicine; sixteenth in a class of twenty-two. Nineteen seventy-six got a courtesy appointment, staff of anesthesiology, Easthampton Hospital for Women. Never married. Has no honors or degrees of any weight. Since nineteen seventy-five he's testified in twenty-eight court cases, twelve malpractice.

  [smugly] 

  Billy : And - he's black.

  Ed Concannon : I'll tell you how you handle the fact that he's black. You don't touch it. You don't mention it. You treat him like anybody else. Neither better nor worse. And let's have a black lawyer sit at our table. Okay?