Attorney Quote by Alan Dershowitz

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be…

— Alan Dershowitz

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

— Matthew McConaughey

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better…

— Robert Shapiro

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

— Maimonides

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday…

— David E. Kelley

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“defense lawyers are key in promoting the idea that many convicted of child abuse are innocent”

— Bethany L. Brand

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

— Michael Connelly