Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The permanent antidote to crime is education alone, Law ‘n policy are just to ensure its true democratization. More than trying a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Let us be practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law.… [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“In addition to facilitating the arming of jihadists during the war, in violation of American criminal laws against material support to terrorism,… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image