Lewis Carroll Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

If you hang them all, you will get the guilty. But that's not the American way of doing things.

Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

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

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.

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.

Due process does not require that every conceivable step be taken, at whatever cost, to eliminate the possibility of convicting an innocent person. To conclude otherwise would all but paralyze our system for enforcement of the criminal law.

I believe in the jury system.

I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.'

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

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

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

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

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

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.

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.