The jury got to hear that he wasn't what anybody saw. ... This is a person who's lying to the police, who wasn't being cooperative with the investigation.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

There's always a chance. Last time the jury may have been expecting to hear more. This time we're going to fill in the gaps.

They just hear through the grapevine [from colleagues] ... that if you want a good jury, you've got to get a lot of upper-middle class white people; you don't want black people, you don't want preachers ... you don't want schoolteachers because they're all too liberal,

[Drug dealers and prostitutes hang out at the park] because they can, ... They're almost slick enough to know when police will come by, or who will bother them and who won't.