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

“investigation?”
― Peter Kirkland, The Wrong Victim

“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

“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

“her time”
― Peter Kirkland, The Wrong Victim

“Folks don’t decide anything based on reason. They decide what they want to, or jurors believe what they want to, and then they come up with an excuse for it after the fact.”
― Peter Kirkland, Defending Innocence

“that’s”
― Peter Kirkland, Presumption of Guilt: A Legal Thriller

“omelet”
― Peter Kirkland, Defending Innocence

“much”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Trial

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

“separate stages of acquiring and encoding information”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Judgment

“The truth just bounced off him like rain off a hippo’s hide”
― Peter Kirkland, The Wrong Victim

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

“She”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Trial

“You’ve got to watch sometime. It’s like martial arts. Or, no, here’s what it’s like: Picture a couple ballroom dancing, you know? So smooth, so nice, and then suddenly the guy flips his partner over his shoulder and you realize he was doing judo the whole time.”
― Peter Kirkland, Defending Innocence

“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

“proposition”
― Peter Kirkland, The Midwest Lawyer

“Mephistopheles,”
― Peter Kirkland, Influencing Justice

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

“Raymond Patriarca”
― Peter Kirkland, Small Town Trial

“but also said it could’ve been old Eminem. “Old Eminem?”
― Peter Kirkland, The Wrong Victim