You can't say there's going to be no death penalty and then say we can't have severe conditions of confinement.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.