Convicts Quote by Felix Frankfurter

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but…

— Felix Frankfurter

Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law -…

— David Hume

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

— Michel Foucault

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

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

That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of…

— Thabo Mbeki

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

— Thomas Aquinas

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

— Andrew Thomas

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better…

— Robert Shapiro

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

“In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.”

— Pius Langa