When it comes to an act of crime, the law, at its best, can never protect the innocent. It only brings retribution and recompense for what that is lost when the deed was done; or attempt to prevent it from happening, but that is all.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.

Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am.

She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.

He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a drug habit. He did this because he wanted to be a big man in the neighborhood. Well, now he can be a big man in the state prison system.