#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

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena. ↗

— Tom C. Clark

#city #court #crime #day #defendant

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#cases #cop #defamation #defendant #enough

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

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. 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 #been #criminal #death #defendants

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

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#against #believe #defendant #force #him

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

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #dan #dan rather #defendant #happened

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