Abdul Qadeer Khan Quotes

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

The innocent man is always eager to give his explanation and does so at the first opportunity, and it is always to his interest so to do. But the guilty is now enabled by the law to remain mute, to learn the evidence against him, to concoct his defense pending trial, and to come into court fully acquainted with the case against him, while the district attorney only knows that the defendant has pronounced the two words "not guilty.

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

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

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It should go without saying that people who are not charged with a crime also are presumed innocent.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

By what authority do you try me?

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

It is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.

Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections.

I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.