Lance Ito Quotes

The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

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

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.

Proceeding should be televised. There is nothing secret about a trial. It should always be open. I think the Supreme Court is just a little bit stuffy about televising its proceedings.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

People have a fundamental right to information about the government, but the right to justice trumps that. Cameras in the courtroom seem to affect behavior.

I've led a grand jury.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

I will be the defence lawyer of the Italian people.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor