What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.
From Joseph Wambaugh
I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
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.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
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.
You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.
The time has come for professional jurors.
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