Louise Erdrich - From "The Round House," pg. 306 lyrics

“But I've decided that I would do nothing. I would offer up no information. Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice—for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice, which is what we end up with in making so many of our decisions. It was no lynching. There was no question of his guilt. He may have even wanted to get caught and punished. We can't know his mind. Lark's k**ing is a wrong thing which serves an ideal justice. It settles a legal enigma. It threads that unfair maze of land title law by which Lark could not be prosecuted. His d**h was the exit. I would say nothing, do nothing, to muddy the resolution.”