Isaac Barrow Quotes
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Isaac Barrow, 1630 –1677, English Mathematician & Theologian, The works of Isaac Barrow, D.D.: To which are prefixed, a life of the author (1845 edition)
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it is ironic that the witnesses swear to tell the entire truth but the prosecutors, attorneys, and judges are not so bound. Most in actuality often do not reveal aspects of the truth that might undermine their case or with judges, the personal view of judicial administration. Often judges do not tell defendants in criminal trials all their options about protesting the judges actions in the trial for example.
He was concerned about trials of high profile corporate executives for white collar crimes. He defended the CEO of Worldcom which was forced into the largest bankruptcy in American history by fraud. His client was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in jail, longer than his life expectancy. Much of the motivation of the prosecution was to set an example, send a message, and show that white collar crime is taken seriously.
Watkins was the first Dallas County Black DA. He was being interviewed because DNA testing proved that a man who had served 30 years in prison for rape and robbery, could not have committed the crime, and he had just been released. Watkins quotation was very significant because it set forth a philosophy that while extant in other areas of the country is almost unheard of in Texas, where there have been more innocent men convicted than in any other state. DAs in Texas usually fight every attempt to examine old evidence with modern tools.
A case of systemic racial discrimination against a Bank of America subsidiary which she had initiated in 2008 had been resolved by the Bank paying over $200 million to the victims.
Isaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. He is also notable for being the inaugural holder of the prestigious Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a post later held by his student, Isaac Newton.
