Susan Collins Quotes

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

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

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.

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.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

The law is agnostic about truth.

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

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

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

No Man ought to be looked upon as guilty, before he has received his judicial Sentence; nor can the Laws deprive him of their Protection, before it is proved that he has forfeited all Right to it.

Our entire legal system bets a great deal on the proposition that this ‘adversary’ system is the least imperfect way to develop all the truth: the corollary is that we must look on partisanship not as an evil but as a part of the system's working.

We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency

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

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

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 prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also to ensure that they get it by means of fair trial, and that means a fair trial for the defense as well as the prosecution.

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

No man can be judge to his own cause.

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

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die