Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past’s future.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . . it’s like you jump into hyperspace. And everything that’s dull about the books...

I believe […] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust...

At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial,...

When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration given to a priori knowledge regarding the circumstances being presented and...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life...

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.