A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

If there's not (a guilty verdict,) I'd be surprised.