Anything Quote by Robert P. McCulloch

A lapse in judgment is not a crime.

— Eddie Perez

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

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

— Robert P. McCulloch

It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offense.

— Jeff Sessions

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in…

— Conor Lamb

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence,…

— Robert P. McCulloch

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to…

— Warren E. Burger

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

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

— Mike Braun

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

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

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