Criminal Liability Quotes

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Ignorantia legis neminem excusat

Robbery is a crime; rape is a crime; murder is a crime; treason is a crime and crime must be punished. The law provides for it, and the courts are open. Treason must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished.

Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

If conspirators meet in the house of a tavern-keeper, and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the tavern-keeper shall be put to death.

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law... On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment, to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him, and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

No one wants a president to be guilty of obstruction of justice. The only thing worse than that is a guilty president who goes without punishment.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

If you abuse the public trust, we're going to find you, and and we're going to prosecute you.

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

Consent is not a defense in the taking of the life of another.

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal neglect of this government …. Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Brown and Rice should be tried for criminal negligence.

Those who bank terrorism are equally culpable with those who commit it. I’d feel a lot better if the Saudis were not auditing the Saudis We have had our own experiences where the auditors had a conflict of interest.

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

He that shall take an oath untruely, or bear false wittness in any cause or against any man whatsoever, shall be punished with death.