Quotes About Judicial system

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

If I had a billion dollars, that's not going to keep me out of the courtroom.

In his nearly twenty-five years as Chief Justice, Roger Bannon never once voted to overturn a death sentence. But what truly distinguished him was a driving lack of curiosity as to whether any of these defendants were, in fact, innocent.

So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

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I fathered a child, my first one, during those sixty days that I was a "free" man. My beloved daughter, Oryanna Elizabeth Davis (Elizabeth is my mother's name) was born on November 11, 2001 while I was serving yet another sentence of three and a half years in federal prison for something I did not do and could not have done, even if I had wanted to. And the judge, prosecutor, my probation officer, and the arresting Secret Service officers all knew it.

Often imitated, the Speck press order survives today as the best way for a trial judge to manage a celebrated case.

Hello, Davina. You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defence?

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

In the absolute majority of western democracies - elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.

If someone asks me why we did not use the regular courts I would reply: at the moment I was responsible for the German nation; consequently

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