Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.