Quotes About Justice

parity is the higher form of charity.

Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

The policeman is the most important social worker we have. Often it is far better to settle an argument or disperse a crowd and move on than to make an arrest.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Never take anything that doesn't belong to you or that you haven't earned," he said, sliding into the car. "You never know who you're stealing from, and what that money means to them.

If the evidence is suspect, so is the result.

I've heard you're good, but I don't think even you can sue a dead man.

while an arrest of the Cowboy might bring the families of his victims justice, it would never bring them closure. Tracy

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail. To the Jack Devines of this world, Bennet wasn't the victim because in Jack Devine's way of thinking, everything was OK because he paid for it.

I once heard a judge tell a defendant there was a difference between being sorry for his actions and being sorry he got caught

When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons. —JENI GREGORY, PHD, LICSW, CCM, CCTP

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

a female officer said. She also remained Seattle's only female homicide detective

O. J. Simpson

maybe the rest of your life—unless you get the death penalty." Taggart

They'd had conversations about Sloane's job, defending clients to the best of his abilities no matter his personal feelings about their innocence or guilt.

Then maybe God exists." Tracy made a face, not following. "I'm sorry?" "'When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.

Injustice was not built of stone and mortar, or of metal. It was built of greed, inhumanity, and man's thirst for power.

In eternally liberal Seattle, it was better for a thief to commit a crime than to have his privacy invaded. "Is

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail.