Top Justice System Quotes

It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ....... State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 M...

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face...

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due...

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

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 -- th...

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for lif...

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.

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with...

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in...

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

Police and prosecutors are morally and professionally obligated to make every effort to identify specious rape reports, safeguard the civil rights of rape suspects, and prevent the falsely accused fro...

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

Miscarriages of justice review centre is a task that ought to be replicated everyother places globally because many people has been victims of miscarriages of justices and I must commend the sagacity...

The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the use of victims against one another...

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.