>> -- is important, but experience is important as well because you're trying to--
when it comes to the door, you know, you don't have, you know, hours to deliberate.
Sometimes you've got to make a decision.
And you make that decision based on, well can I do it?
Legally can I do it?
And then, should I do it?
And the only way to know if you're sure with something is whether or not you have that kind
of experience to make that determination.
One of the keys to doing this job, prosecutor,
defense is a real respect for all of the participants.
And I mean that in a very real sense.
You may have a child molester who you're sentencing to prison.
I am going to deal with that individual who is going to prison, he's plead guilty
or jury has found him guilty, and I'm going to pronounce that sentence
and I'm going to send him to prison.
And it's funny that you can make it personal or you can make it professional.
Now if you make it personal, if you--
and to me a judge who makes those issues personal really is one doing the system
in this service.
The defendant understands they messed up and the vast majority
if you just treat them professionally, send them on to prison, they understand that.
Everybody did their job.
>> Right.
>> As a prosecutor, lawyer or judge, if you make things personal as against people
which is not really in the book, you don't have to look on to the book
and say to be a good judge, you got to make it personal.
You got to be ugly.
Nowhere in that book that you have to do your job being ugly,
being, you know, smart and being cute.
You just need to do your job professionally.
When you're asked to be a judge kind of by your kinsmen, other attorneys, you sit there
and you hope to be confident in law and innately fair, you know, you could study the law
but I don't know where you get a innately fair, you just-- I think you're either born with it
or you were-- maybe you get it from Sunday school or when you do law school.