- Judge Greg Mathis: Does meth wake you up? Dust?
- Bailiff: Yes. No. I don't know.
- Judge Greg Mathis: Boy, you know.
- Judge Greg Mathis: [narration for second-season opening-montage] Troubled kids? I was one. Gangs? Jail? I was there. Second chances? I got one. I went to law school, became a lawyer, and then a judge. Now I get to *give* second chances. It's time for hard decisions and tough love. Justice that makes a difference; *that's* what I'm about!
- Narrator: In the '70s, a kid from Detroit dropped out of school.
- Judge Greg Mathis: Life was rough! We had to make due.
- Narrator: He made the wrong friends, the wrong choices. He got caught; he did time. Then...
- Judge Greg Mathis: My mom told me she was going to die.
- Narrator: He promised he'd turn his life around.
- Judge Greg Mathis: I made the law work for me!