Quotes About Judicial system

Equal justice is forgotten in our current judicial system. Wealth, power, and prestige protect the ruling class. The counterfeiters, the warmongers, and the thieves who steal from the treasury go free. Our prisons are filled will nonviolent drug users and disproportionately by minorities and the poor.

he's indicted, his lawyer will cause delay after delay, and five years from now we'll

A man could find himself in court on trivial or trumped-up charges, his fortune, home or life forfeit.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.

Rape was a capital crime, and the defense reminded the men in the jury that if Bedlow was found guilty, the lives of all male citizens would be put "in the hands of a woman, to be disposed of almost at her will and pleasure.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even though I personally agree with what they say they are protesting as inequality and judicial system and incarceration rates among minorities, we decided all should stand and respect every national anthem.

Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race.

I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.

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Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. ~ Dr. Burdette

that material like Hammurabi's stele imposed no obligations on society or the courts. It did not represent at any level the "law of the land," and there is no call to obey. This assessment is confirmed by the fact that it does not serve as a reference in the judicial system, which is illuminated for us through thousands of court documents.

Renard was obliged to report ruefully to his master that the laws of England were so unsatisfactory that it was impossible to have people executed unless they had previously been proved guilty.

where there is no law, there is no freedom;

with lawlessness freedom is inconsistent

One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Going to the court is not like going to the grocery store.

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.