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
Booker Sistrunk sat awkwardly with his hands behind him and continued the mouthing: You oughtta be ashamed of yourself, treating a brother like this. The white guy’s gettin’ the same treatment, Ozzie...
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]
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,...
With murder, the victim is gone, and not forced to deal with what happened to her. The family must deal with it, but not the victim. But rape is much worse. The victim has a lifetime of coping, trying...
Washington, D.C., to see her family one last time before they are deported back to Senegal. Now we’re told she can’t see them because of paperwork. The ICE boys looked at the three clerks. The first o...
This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back...
The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.
Sounds awful.No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come...
Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client.
Sadly, dissent nowadays is considered unpatriotic, and in our post-9/11 atmosphere any criticism of those in uniform, any uniform, is stifled. Being labeled soft on crime or soft on terror is a politi...
Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the...
It must be pretty cool being a lawyer, she said in awe.Cool was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as someth...
In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.
In Ake v. Oklahoma, the Court said: When a State brings its judicial power to bear on an indigent defendant in a criminal proceeding, it must take steps to assure that the defendant has a fair opportu...
I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.
I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do.
I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had t...
I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.