Sam Sheppard Quotes

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.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

To talk about justice in the justice system is an oxymoron.

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

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

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

Delay in justice is injustice.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

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

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

Justice is a fading light.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.