I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is read more

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would read more

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.

No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word read more

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper read more

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;
But if thou want it, buy it not too deare
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held read more

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.