Quotes About Justice

He urged the new officers never to break the law to enforce the law. To do their job constitutionally and compassionately at all times.

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Un juicio es un concurso de mentiras. Y en la sala todo el mundo lo sabe.

He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police's lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.

You don't have to be an interrogator at Abu Ghraib to know that time never favors the suspect.

month ago and Maura Frederick

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

jurisprudence. I

Michael Connelly

fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell

charge for the Times—thanks to Bosch

I have always believed that the quickest way off a jury panel is to announce that you are convinced that all cops lie or all cops are always right. Either way, a closed mind is a challenge for cause.

The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system's checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizations. The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.

Just so you know, I'm guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don't give a shit and don't view rape as much of a crime.