#defendant

The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small. ↗

— Howie Carr

#better #big #catch #defendant #easier

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #because #defendant #defense #does

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. ↗

— Byron White

#death #death penalty #defendant #deprive #entitled

As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bear #been #brought #claims #clear

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #believe #care #deeply #defendant

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #criminal #defendants #defenders #enough

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#arizona #capital #constitutional #defendants #excepting

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city. ↗

— David Simon

#baltimore #cities #city #convict #criminal