Robert J. Bentley Quotes

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.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It should go without saying that people who are not charged with a crime also are presumed innocent.

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

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

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.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

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

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Indictments don't mean anything; men are entitled to be innocent until they are proved guilty.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime.

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

Let law enforcement determine guilt or innocence.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

All victims deserve justice.