Quotes about justice-system

Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty."Levin nodded thoughtfully."The bottom line was my old man was a damn good la

Sir Laurens van der Post -

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.

George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords

Harsh justice is still justice.

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Charlotte Turner Smith - or the Recluse of the Lake

For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand that among a people piquing themselves on their liberty, it was the custom to shut a man up in perpetual confinement, to enable him to pay his debts.

Sarah Crossan - Moonrise

Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.Just doesn't seen fair to me.

Auliq Ice -

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

America's prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill.

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one mi

Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Rachel Dax - After The Night

It’s not our place to judge the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, Nurse Webster. The sooner you learn that the better. Any other approach just leads to conflicts of duty and undermines the smooth running of the institution. We are here to ensure that the prisoners are dealt with firmly and professionally. It’s up to their lawyers to handle matters pertaining to their sentences.

Jon Krakauer - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Police and prosecutors are morally and professionally obligated to make every effort to identify specious rape reports, safeguard the civil rights of rape suspects, and prevent the falsely accused from being convicted. At the same time, however, police and prosecutors are obligated to do everything in their power to identify individuals who have committed rape and ensure that the guilty are brought to justice. These two objectives are not mutually exclusive. A meticulous, expertly conducted inve

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.

Oche Otorkpa - The Unseen Terrorist

The lack of stringent laws and the inefficient prosecution ofperpetrators have made it increasingly difficult for victims and theirfamilies to get the justice they deserve.

Kenneth Eade - Killer.com

He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.

Kenneth Eade - Killer.com

Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.

Amy A. Bartol - Under Different Stars

I prefer my justice to be blind.

Auliq Ice -

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Kenneth Eade - A Patriot's Act

The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality.

Kenneth Eade - A Patriot's Act

He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences.

Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author -

Interpretation of laws and it's right application in its true spirit is the bedrock of any judicial mechanism and a legal system..There is a need to check the crevices of its precedents in the light of the laws at hand and the facts that have been dealt with. Though primafacie this may seem as a miniscule idea, it is wisdom to bear in mind that the purpose of the law is executing proper justice and executing order, and if this is ignored then, the purpose of the existence of such a mechanism of

Chad Almadani -

The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest.

Kenneth Eade - And Justice?

Everything in life has a yin and yang – an interconnected, complementary and opposite force. Just as we need the light to distinguish it from the dark, we recognize injustice in the world demands justice to provide a balance.

Paul Beatty - The Sellout

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

Judge Richard A. Posner -

If changing judges changes law, then it is not clear what law is.

Bryan Stevenson -

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer

Well, did he do it?"She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi - Guantánamo Diary

You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.

Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba -

Miscarriages of justice review centre is a task that ought to be replicated everyother places globally because many people has been victims of miscarriages of justices and I must commend the sagacity towards the establishment of the review centre at The University of Sheffield and it's no doubt going to give a lot of people opportunity for Justice.

Agona Apell -

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

Víctor del Árbol -

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key pla

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