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Quotes About Judicial system

I suppose that's because you have faith in the judicial system that will try us. Yes. I have faith that we will be found guilty and that we will be shot. Your faith will be rewarded. Why? It hasn't been for the last few years.
~ Mark Helprin
Un processo è sempre breve quando un giudice ha già pronunziato in anticipo la sentenza
~ Sir Walter Scott
Hang 'em first, try 'em later.
~ Roy Bean
As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
~ Scott Turow
I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.
~ Lloyd Paul Stryker
When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.
~ Martin Amis
They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.
~ Mark Twain
They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.
~ Stephen King
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
~ Jon Stewart
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
~ Jonathan Sacks
And missouri has the death penalty,' I said. 'Fun Game.
~ Gillian Flynn
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
~ John Conyers
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they may be, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
~ Mary Shelley
The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
~ Mary Shelly
Las únicas funciones apropiadas de un gobierno son: la policía, para protegerte de los criminales; el ejército, para protegerte de invasores extranjeros, y los tribunales, para proteger tu propiedad y tus contratos de las violaciones, incumplimientos o fraudes de los otros, y para dirimir las disputas apelando a reglas racionales y según la ley objetiva.
~ Ayn Rand
Most homicides, Black notes, are really instances of capital punishment, with a private citizen as the judge, jury, and executioner.
~ Steven Pinker
Trump proposed to relax libel laws against journalists, encouraged violence against his critics at his rallies, would not commit to respecting the outcome of the 2016 election if it went against him, tried to discredit the popular vote count that did go against him, threatened to imprison his opponent in the election, and attacked the legitimacy of the judicial system when it challenged his decisions—all hallmarks of a dictator
~ Steven Pinker
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
~ Ernest Istook
When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.
~ Eric Adams
Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.
~ John Ensign
I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
~ Bernhard Schlink
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.
~ Bill Messing