Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
