Court Quote by Anthony Gregory

Convictions are prisons.

— Anonymous

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

— Anthony Gregory

In our country, [habeas corpus ] means that if you've been sentenced and convicted in a state court, either to death or to some…

— Nat Hentoff

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life.

— Anonymous

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification…

— John Grisham

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

When one person does something, you look like an outlier. And whether it makes sense or not, the states get a certain level of…

— Ken Cuccinelli

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but…

— Jan Schakowsky

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are…

— Stephen Breyer

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all stand on…

— Richard Henry Lee

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

— Max Frisch