The time has come for professional jurors.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.