The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].