Quotes About Exoneration

the policies that permitted it. "Without a mutual acknowledgment of mistakes made, and some form of accountability, another reversion to torture may be difficult to prevent," says political scientist Darius Rejali. "Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity."25 Impunity, in turn, rewards self-justification, not only in the perpetrators but also in the nation that exonerates them.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.

For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are eventually exonerated number in the hundreds, if not thousands, we can not call it a moral system.

Is it now a crime for someone falsely accused to be upset about it? Mueller presumes guilt and then refuses to 'exonerate' President Trump. This turns our legal system upside down and shows the rule of law is no bar to smearing President Trump.

In the last twenty years at least forty-six people have been released from death row because the errors in their convictions were found in time to save their lives. Some are not so lucky.

Soon there'll be nothing left to the law but acronyms, DNA swabs, and every man's right to claim an exoneration the moment after he's convicted

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

As I told you before, it's fairly easy to convict an innocent man and virtually impossible to exonerate one.

She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.

To me justice doesn't mean looking for the criminals. It means looking for the innocent.