He’s got to open it himself; the government can’t kick it in.

He is likable. He is grandfatherly. He’s everybody’s papa and he has the ability to show outrage without showing outrage.

In a situation like this, the prosecution is now going to have to get its checkbook out and pay some other hired gun to come in and say that Andrea Yates was not insane at...

I believe the judge, as an umpire, at some level has to be concerned with the integrity of the process.

The Court of Criminal Appeals is widely considered to be one of the most conservative appellate courts in the world. Not one judge on that court decided that the state’s appeal was worth considering. Obviously...

This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury to look past what they saw in the first half of the trial,...

I think this was a man perceived as being the grandfatherly figure who wound up becoming Richard Nixon on a bad day.

I would say Ken Lay has been grilled by his own lawyers to avoid opening the door.

It looks bad. It’s only witness tampering if you attempt to impact their testimony. But he’s come within a coat of paint of doing that.

These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them.

This is a case that turns on credibility.

I’ve never seen the transformation of a witness from grandfather to Richard Nixon in a day.