A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White Copy Share Image
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. — Byron White Copy Share Image
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in… — Byron White Copy Share Image
While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other,… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of… — Byron White Copy Share Image
When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to… — Byron White Copy Share Image
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. — Byron White Copy Share Image
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. — Byron White Copy Share Image
It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and… — Byron White Copy Share Image
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share Image
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment… — Byron White Copy Share Image
