Jack Cade Quotes

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

They have been waiting for eight years to tell me that I am a war criminal and now they do it.

What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt? This dilemma is frequent. Either he is guilty, or not guilty. If guilty, he should only suffer the punishment ordained by the laws, and torture becomes useless, as his confession is unnecessary. If he be not guilty, you torture the innocent; for, in the eye of the law, every man is innocent whose crime has not been proved

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

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

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

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

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.