Laurie Levenson Quotes (18 Quotes)

Not only does it take a statute that was designed to go after the bad guys -- the criminals -- and use it against law enforcement, but it does it in a way that could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is probably the most important phase of jury selection, and jury selection may be the most important phase of the trial, ... This will be the chance for lawyers to see whether these are jurors with an agenda.

Now they can walk away and say he didn't get away with it.

Because she is Jewish, Deborah feared the children might be mistreated if Michael continued his association with the Nation of Islam.

Rodney King was about police abuse, O. J. was about police incompetence, and Rampart is about police corruption. That's a pretty grim picture for the LAPD, ... What Rodney King taught us is you can't ignore the problems and hope they will go away.

From his standpoint, it doesn't hurt his reputation because he had no reputation left. This case was unpleasant for everyone and now it just goes away.

I think the prosecution was looking for a symbolic victory and they got it.

It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.

We have the people who did the dirty work, but we don't have the people who hired them.

On a show like 'CSI,' they do all these amazing investigative techniques. But I don't know of a prosecutor's office in the country that has the resources, or the technology.

It's a hornet's nest. There are many types of lawsuits that can be brought against many different people. There will be plenty of work to go around.

What Janet Reno has to consider is, 'Do I go through this long process with the odds against getting the death penalty, or do I end it here'

What makes the American criminal justice system different from so many others in the world is our willingness to cast some sunshine on the process, but if you can't see it, you can't really criticize it.

He's going to wind up with a lot of reluctant, unhappy jurors, ... And if they don't want to be there, they may not listen to the evidence. It's dangerous to force people into jury service.

If you believe the victim, then you can have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

It is a very dangerous precedent because it gives the court an opportunity to close out the public from critical information during a high-publicity trial, ... This formalizes the celebrity exception to the First Amendment.

People fudge the truth all the time. Perjury is the big lie, the lie that has an impact on the investigation, on victims.

The timing smells. It seems like more than coincidence. When something like this happens it makes people wonder if this has been a fair and honest trial.