Legal Culpability Quotes

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The illegal immigrants may have broken the law, but we have been complicit.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

[These crimes] had a principle author who escaped all prosecution and of whom in any case the present Defendants could only be considered accomplices.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

We don't want to put people in jail unless we prove that they knew they were doing something they shouldn't do.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

It is a lamentable reflection that a man may be at the same time so insane as to be reckless of his own life and the lives of others, and to be pronounced free from moral responsibility, and yet capable of preparing for the commission of murder with the utmost caution and deliberation, and of taking every step which shall enable him to commit it with certainty.

Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor.