Yoshihide Suga Quotes
We must correct what we find objectively wrong.
This quotation appears on several courthouses in the United States.
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.
He is remembered today as the "Hanging Judge" of the American Old West. The two statements of his motto are contradictory unless all trials were perfect and all police, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants and witness always told the truth, and never made mistakes. This judge never followed the basic principle laid down by Blackstone regarding criminal law. See {594956}.
Yoshihide Suga is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan since September 2020. He was Chief Cabinet Secretary under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012 to 2020 and Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2006 to 2007.
