Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.
Like every false rumor, it gained credibility while being repeated, and before long it was practically a fact.
Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake.
Jake
I’m in shock now. I’m not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse. And this is only the beginning.
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.
With the door locked, usually around 3:00 p.m. Everyone who worked at the law firm of Boone & Boone knew that Woods was upstairs, shoes off, feet on the desk, phone on Do Not Disturb, snoring away for...
You wired the kid, Truemann said meekly to no one in particular.Why not? No crime. You're the FBI, remember. You boys run more wire than AT&T.[Reggie Love]
Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.
Miranda v. Arizona, the most famous of all self-incrimination cases, the Supreme Court imposed procedural safeguards to protect the rights of the accused. A suspect has a constitutional right not to b...
I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.
In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.
If the cops can’t convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.
God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…-Judge Frank Howell Seay
Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.
You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world,...