Quotes About Judicial system

If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

Our justice system is a punitive one that's there to sort of deal with what happens after someone's already offended.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

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I had also learned that the death penalty in the United States has always been most rigorously applied in Southern states - mostly toward those who kill whites.

He contends this is not an isolated case and explains that prosecutors, judges, and juries, most of whom are white, are far more outraged when white people are murdered than when black people are.

That's why you're never going to find a rich person on death row.

Will you dare, I ask, to condemn the unfairness inherent in the judicial system which metes out one brand of justice for the rich and one for the poor?

Jury: A group of twelve people selected to decide who has the better lawyer.

Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath—'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath…indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth.

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not many people know that.

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

lesser charge, or a lighter sentence, or both.

Me being arrested would

of the judge's bench, and when a case was being heard, only licensed lawyers could go inside the bar railing to approach the judge with their arguments.

it does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.