Quotes from Joseph Wambaugh

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.