There aren’t enough hours in the day

There aren’t enough hours in the day or judges on the bench to try all the cases brought against these men. The game has been rigged and the courts see it through. The trial is their right. But to bury you beneath the prison for forcin’ the judge and the DA to do their jobs is the court’s right, too.

— KiKi Layne as Tish Rivers, If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).

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