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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.

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

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.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.

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.