Rusty Hardin Quotations

If that guy sounds like a criminal in there, I'll eat my hat.

Keep the truth from them (the jury) all you want,

Judge, I beg, nothing good happens up there,

Justice rejected our latest response, ... It's reasonable to say that neither side will continue to talk to each other about a resolution.

The appellate guys on one side try not to err, the appellate guys on the other try to preserve error if it happens.

We have had an incredible amount of documents, ... But this is a case about people.

What you will see is the most incredibly incompetent conspiracy if there was one,

We would have been glad to continue talking.

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

We are very proud of this company and believe they did nothing wrong.

We are still in negotiations and not close to agreement yet. Reports of an agreement being announced today are premature.

Both of them know so little of what actually happened.

There's no indication from any source that anybody thinks she did anything wrong.

I've rarely seen a case or set of facts that has so outraged people over a long period of time. I've tried ax murderers and I've never found the public as upset as this.

It was totally within the discretion of the justice of the peace whether or not to allow the harvesting to be done.

Once you throw a skunk in the jury box it's hard to remove.

You must not have been worried about the (Securities and Exchange Commission) seeing them.

This is the most silly, thin-skinned motion I can imagine.

At first blush it looks like much, but if prorated over the year it doesn't look like much at all?

It's just a horribly tragic thing. Their lives are forever changed. There's never going to be enough money to fully compensate them for what happened.

It's a serious legal issue. It just happens to be being decided around a very unserious person.

It's a gambit to deprive us of a witness ... and she would have been a dynamite witness. It's the most outrageous thing I've ever seen.

It remains to me, in 30 years as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, the most polarizing case I've ever seen with jurors.

It's a horribly sad day as far as we're concerned. People's lives have been incredibly disrupted.

It is very unusual for a jury to be out nine days without it being a mistrial. You reach a stage in really long deliberations where it becomes coercive for the minority.

It's fruitless. I'll go on to something else.

Does David Duncan establish there was a crime? ... Absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt, no. Are those the words of Rusty Hardin? No, those are the words of David Duncan.

Eddie has made a lot of mistakes and Eddie has had a lot of problems in his life, but this is not something he created at all.

That is not a crime, ... God help the man for having pled guilty...but that is not a crime.

Talking to judges is like talking to God. You don't want to tell God you've predetermined the case.

I have to smile with fondness for our system, that says that our highest court will look at legal issues no matter who the sponsor is.

You were in the middle of a nightmare, weren't you?

The DOJ rejected that latest response. They wanted different conditions,