Contests Quote by Edmund Burke

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Sir Hall Caine

“grand jury indictment is not a conviction.”

— Alan Dershowitz

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

— Kamala Harris

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process…

— Rob Simmons

An indictment is not a conviction.

— Howard Coble

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is…

— John Grisham

I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that…

— Marcia Clark

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

— Dominick Dunne

“The towering lie of the criminal justice system—that we can reliably determine the truth, that we can know “beyond a reasonable doubt” who is…

— William Landay

“But just take the jurists' side for a moment: why, in fact, should a trial be supposed to have two possible outcomes when our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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