Legal Flaws Quotes

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

It is not hard to prove, that the lawmakers, in all states, have committed more, and more pernicious errors than the judges

Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

Defense lawyers sleep. Prosecutors lie. DNA Testing is to justice what the telescope is for the stars ... a way to see things as they really are

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.