Atom Egoyan Quotes

Strict law is often great injustice.

Delay in justice is injustice.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

It is easier to learn to fly by flapping one's arms than it is to get a district attorney to admit having sent an innocent person to prison.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

I don’t think its right to have a criminal justice system that puts innocent people to death.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

The law is cruel.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.