These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.