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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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guilt
innocence
judgment
justice
mercy
reasonable-doubt
verdict
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Voltaire |
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ead802b
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I believe that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
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death-penalty
justice
justice-system
legal-system
reasonable-doubt
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Neil Gaiman |
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"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt."
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criminal-law
defense
evidence
guilt
innocence
justice
justice-system
reasonable-doubt
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Michael Connelly |
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9c70d4d
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Reasonable doubt trumps everything.
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lawyer
legal
logic
rationality
reason
reasonable-doubt
trump
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Rebecca McNutt |
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c66d321
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"As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question "But how do you represent such scum?" I offer a quick "Someone has to" as I walk away. Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis. It's just as well that we don't believe in fair trials because we damned sure don't have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets."
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law
lawyer
presumption-of-innocence
reasonable-doubt
trial
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John Grisham |