Quotes About Judicial system

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court.

We need a Supreme Court justice who will restore fairness, balance, and independence to the highest level of the judiciary. Based on his record, I do not believe Gorsuch would be that kind of justice.

The law of the land is supposed to be obeyed.

Leigh was constantly amazed when rich white people assumed the system always worked until they found themselves wrapped up in it. Then, it had to be some kind of God damned conspiracy.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen...witnesses. The world looks away, and why not?

A jury could only declare my son 'not guilty', never 'innocent'.

Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.