Right to Fair Trial Quotes

My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

Federal courts sit to ensure that individuals are not imprisoned in violation of the Constitution—not to correct errors of fact.

You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.