Abuse Quote by David Hume

From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair…

— Hugo Black

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is…

— H. L. Mencken

There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and…

— Lysander Spooner

“You must put no man on trial before anything that is called a court… under forms of judicial proceeding, if you are not willing…

— Ann Tusa

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

“But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove…

— Anna Kavan

“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure of a…

— Paul Delano Butler

“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when all the…

— Anna Kavan

“Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order…

— Felix Frankfurter

That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted…

— George Mason

“Remember especially that you cannot be the judge of anyone. For there can be no judge of a criminal on earth until the judge…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky