Some attorneys would be honored to be cited by a Supreme Court Justice. Professor Sam Walker, a leading criminologist, was not so pleased when Justice Scalia quoted him in the Hudson decision, which ruled that police are capable of regulating themselves.



Scalia quoted from Walker's book "Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice," to prove that the courts don't need oversight of police because police forces have internal discipline systems. What the book actually says, however, is that internal police discipline systems were only created because judicial oversight forced them to do so.





Walker says he was horrified to learn that his work was being used to support claims opposed to the ones in his own book. He sees Scalia's citation as a misuse of the quote.