If you want to play God, I always tell my students, go be a prosecutor. Not a judge, mind you. Not only do you have to be older and more experienced to be a judge, but everything you do must be explained and is subject to review. Big decisions tend to be the subject of written opinions, reviewed by panels of more judges, and then more judges, with no single judge having more than one vote. Whereas even a junior prosecutor can ruin a person's life on her own say-so, not to mention sending everybody else on a wild goose chase, just by deciding to bring charges and have the person arrested and locked up.
Susan Estrich; politician, professor, lawyer, writer
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