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I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.