Quotes About Judicial system

Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

If nobody is innocent, who can be guilty?

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

for all victims of the terrible injustice which puts men and women to death without form of law. During the year 1894, there were 132 persons executed in the United States by due form of law, while in the same year, 197 persons were put to death by mobs who gave the victims no opportunity to make a lawful defense.

Trump is not the victim of the judicial system; he is or has been the defendant in 3,500 lawsuits - that's not the mark of a victim but rather a perpetrator.

What often happens in a court of law is that, if victims do get their day in court, they are on trial as much as the perpetrators.

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

With the standard time off for good behavior, I walked out the doors of the jail after eighteen days. That's what Razzle's life, and the permanent health of those other two kids, was worth, according to the judicial system.

A murder trial is not a Sunday-afternoon tea party.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…" -Judge Frank Howell Seay

The only way to improve Noose's favorite courtroom was to burn it.

But a year in jail for an innocent man is pure luck in our system.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

John Grisham

Between 1818 and 1940, the state hanged eight hundred people, 80 percent of whom were black. Those, of course, were the judicial hangings for rapists and murderers who had been processed through the courts. During that same period of time, approximately six hundred black men were lynched by mobs operating outside the legal system and thoroughly immune from any of its repercussions