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

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The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

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I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

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If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

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When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

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Civil servants take forever to do anything.

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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.

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Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

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The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 22nd, 1937

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