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“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness…

— Barry Glassner

“Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines.”

— William Landay

“The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for…

— William Landay

“Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many criminals.”

— J.D. Robb

“A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.”

— Karin Slaughter

40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining,…

— Bill Maher

“The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.”

— David Gerrold

“But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!”

— Sir Hall Caine

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense…

— William Landay

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

“The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.”

— Andrena Sawyer