Pricus of Panium Quotes
As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....
See {610613} for Attila’s criticism to which he was responding.
Priscus of Panium, 5th century Greek sophist, diplomat, and historian, Explanation to Attila the Hun of the long time it took for Roman civil suits to be resolved, Quoted in Priscus, At the Court of Attila
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Attila the Hun
Watkins was the first Dallas County Black DA. He was being interviewed because DNA testing proved that a man who had served 30 years in prison for rape and robbery, could not have committed the crime, and he had just been released. Watkins quotation was very significant because it set forth a philosophy that while extant in other areas of the country is almost unheard of in Texas, where there have been more innocent men convicted than in any other state. DAs in Texas usually fight every attempt to examine old evidence with modern tools.
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Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
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