Prosecutor Quotes
64 quotes by 52 authors
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no…
— Conrad Black
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The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
— Ray Bradbury
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Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I…
— Janet Reno
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the…
— Gerald Heaney
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While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority…
— Conrad Black
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Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system,…
— Thane Rosenbaum
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Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a…
— Nelson Mandela
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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
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more…
— Jan Neruda
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
— Donella Meadows
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For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
— Scott Turow
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One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is…
— Roy Barnes
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Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken…
— Keith Olbermann
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Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “noâ€.…
— Fatou Bensouda
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I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I…
— Janet Reno
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge…
— Harold H. Greene
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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of…
— Scott Turow
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I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the…
— Barack Obama
Who Wrote These Prosecutor Quotes
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