Allowing Quote by Harold H. Greene

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by…

— Nelson Mandela

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

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an…

— Lynne Stewart

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

— Edmund Burke

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do…

— Edmund Burke

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors…

— Ray Bradbury

One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about…

— Michael Arrington

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They're being sold as race- and…

— John Kennedy

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant…

— Edward Conlon

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

— Kenneth Blackwell

It matters that there's diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of…

— Rachel Maddow