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I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.