“I thought this was a good job before I got it. I didn’t come here to put away poor people for low-level, nonviolent drug crimes, but that’s what the job amounts to. All you can do is bitch about it.”
“They make you do ungodly things in the drug war if you’re a judge.”
“The trouble is, I have to look the person in the eye at sentencing.”
“It used to be a defense lawyer’s skill was in convincing a judge and jury on the facts and the law. Now the skill in being a lawyer is who can run to the U.S. attorney’s office quicker and snitch. That’s what the law is — who can snitch best”
“I don’t give the prosecutors trouble. They know what a joke the drug war is.”
“The only people that don’t know what’s up are the policymakers in Washington.”
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