Peter Kirkland > Quotes

“You like doing the impossible, don’t you.” She smiled. “I already know I can do what’s possible. What’s the point in just doing more of that?”
― Peter Kirkland, Defending Innocence

“prescription opioids that a friend of his had stolen from his parents’ medicine cabinet.”
― Peter Kirkland, Prescribing Doubt

“Equal parts brandy”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Judgment

“proposition”
― Peter Kirkland, The Midwest Lawyer

“the psychopaths who think they’re smarter than everybody else. They’re happy to talk. It’s a game to them.”
― Peter Kirkland, Burning Evidence

“resident asshole. But, I”
― Peter Kirkland, Defending Innocence

“much”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Trial

“I never wrote out the whole speech. Many lawyers did, but I didn’t like to sound that rehearsed. I put together a solid outline and a few turns of phrase that I liked, and I felt ready. In Maine, the prosecutor argued first, so I’d have to be alert to catch anything he came up with that I hadn’t anticipated. I wasn’t too worried about being caught off guard, though. Stanford was eminently predictable.”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Judgment

“hadn’t given much thought to disabilities until my injury. Now I understood what a privilege it was to have a body and mind that worked the way they”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Trial