Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.
Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial: both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him during the trial.
People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.
If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.
People have a fundamental right to information about the government, but the right to justice trumps that. Cameras in the courtroom seem to affect behavior.
They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section and call it Judge's Chambers and give them little judge outfits, and we'll see what happens. I think it turned out great.
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.
