Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

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

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

That image of a lawyer standing up in a criminal case and doing the right thing always stuck with me. I love the idea of building cases and really going after bad guys.

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

I believe that even if a criminal defendant has committed a heinous wrong, they should still be treated with respect from everyone in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors

Every first year law student learns that sentencing has four goals: retribution, incapicitation, deterrence, and rehabilitation.

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

The fact that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners is largly due to manditory minimum sentences.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even have to actually perform the act; they just need to have agreed to do so.

Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.

We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population.

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.

I want to see changes in our criminal justice system.

A lot can be debated about criminal justice and its delivery system.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.