14 Quotes by Judge Mills Lane

I have great faith in the jury system.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

As a matter of fact, I don't think the case will be difficult for a judge, because the judge really is an arbiter and makes decisions of law.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.