Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts?

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.