There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

“Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and…

— Marian Deegan

“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The problem was to get judges who were not afraid to prosecute Saddam despite intimidation and threats.

— Hoshyar Zebari

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are…

— Thomas Jefferson

We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.

— Jeff Sessions

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

— Chuck Grassley

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

— Robert Bork

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is…

— John Grisham

“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.”

— Vivien Spitz

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the…

— Harold H. Greene

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants…

— John Grisham

“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all of the…

— Ron Chernow