“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.” — Pius Langa 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
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
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
A criminal lawyer, like a trapeze performer, is seldom more than one slip from an awful fall. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law. — Zohran Mamdani 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 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
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can… — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
“If we are in a position to affect the happiness or suffering of others, we have ethical responsibilities toward them2—and many of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal… — Samuel Dash Copy Share Image
I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into… — Raymond P. Shafer Copy Share Image
Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor,… — Jean Pigozzi 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
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
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
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
“Former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese has noted that the average American has “little or no hope of knowing all of… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“different varieties of plants is a hobby. He spends some time in his mango garden before attending court. “As a criminal lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“the United States Congress was passing a new criminal law once a week on average.7 It has been reported that the problem… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in exiling Arius and his followers the treatment of ‘heretics’ had been taken out of the hands of bishops and become… — Simon Baker 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
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
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
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
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
“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
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
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