(13 quotes found)
“Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his girlfriend’s finger. Hopkins is a felon, a thief and a cad.”
Gary Gambardella
“She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.”
“Instead of living on a 130 acre farm making millions, he'll be living in an 8 by 8 cell making license plates.”
“The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.”
“Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am.”
“He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a drug habit. He did this because he wanted to be a big man in the neighborhood. Well, now he can be a big man in the state prison system.”
“We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.”
“They traded their houses for the big house.”
“Taking Mr. Durkin off the steets puts a Grand Canyon-sized hole in the local drug business.”
“"That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar who received ten to 20 years in prison, as reported in Reader's Digest, February 1996.)”