I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.