Quotes About Justice

Maybe sometimes vengeance is just as good as justice," he said. "They're pretty much the same if you ask me.

Child cases haunted you. They hollowed you out and scarred you. There was no bulletproof vest thick enough to stop you from being pierced. Child cases left you knowing the world was full of lost light.

justice is incidental to law and order.

play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

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The details made no difference either way to Bosch, because he considered her death a murder. It was a nine-year-old murder, and whoever had taken Daisy had also taken Elizabeth. Never mind that the killer had never met or even seen Elizabeth. He took everything that mattered away from her. He had killed her just as plainly as he had killed her daughter. Two for the price of one.

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story about how a sixteen-year-old kid becomes a stone-cold killer. Hell, getting an innocent

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. I didn't deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty. Of something.

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The Lincoln lawyer was back on the beat. The Lone Ranger was riding again.

Back when I was riding patrol, you know what we called a killing that came down to simple street justice?" "What?" "The brass verdict.

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a nolle pros—meaning no charges were ever filed against him. Allen was simply released.

were allowed to play out until the bus got to its destination. Those who could walk off did and those who couldn't were tended to. The bus pulled into the cavernous garage beneath the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center and we were off-loaded and escorted into the building's vertical maze of holding cells that served its twenty-four different courtrooms.

It was the same voice from behind the line of lights. He knew to call me Mickey. I once again moved to the microphones, boxing Williams out like a power forward going for the rebound. "The murder of a child is a crime that must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, no matter what the possibilities or risks are. There is no

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Bittaker and Norris

this kid his asshole, then that's the cost. But

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Innocence is not a legal term. No one is ever found innocent in a court of law. No one is ever exonerated by the verdict of a jury. The justice system can only deliver a verdict of guilty or not guilty. Nothing else, nothing more.

Innocence is not a legal term.

Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime. The interview

drugged a girl and raped her—