It's like if you have a quilt and a thread is loose and they see that thread, they say, 'Forget the rest of the quilt. ... It's not guilty,'

they're ready to take it wherever it goes.

They want us to move fast -- 'come on here,' in essence, 'rubber stamp what we've done.' That's not our job. We have an independent role and responsibility.

Sure people have said I'm going to announce indictments a week before the election, ... I'll guarantee you that's not going to happen.

If you cannot have faith and trust in your police officer --
either as a citizen or as a juror or as a judge, as defense
lawyers, as a district attorney -- then we do not have an
acceptable, a viable criminal justice system,

The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.