My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.” — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
The financial elite do not need special laws for themselves. This is one nation and there is one criminal law. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism. — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal. — Kangana Ranaut 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
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
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“The accession of not one but three illegal drug users in a row to the US presidency constitutes an existential challenge to… — Jeffrey Dhywood Copy Share Image
A simple philosophy to stick to would be that religion and the promotion of religious opinion is none of the government's business.… — Gene Garman Copy Share Image
“There was actually little talk about Islam from the first generation of leaders in Muslim countries. They had distinguished themselves as anti-imperialist… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Defenders of the prosecution seem to think that anyone charged with a felony must somehow deserve punishment. That idea can only be… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law. — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Criminal lawyers reported greater job satisfaction than did litigators and those not specifying an area of practice.” — Susan Swaim Daicoff Copy Share Image
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