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

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.