Best Fair Trial Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If he chose to hire a lawyer to defend himself, whatever money he had would be confiscated as “ill-gotten gains.” Deprived of funds for defense, he’d be held until he pleaded guilty or a public defender went through the motions of a defense and a jury of white people convicted him. The evidence would be his lack of character and failure to participate in his own prosecution, with a few bits of physical evidence manufactured by the prosecuting cops. All the blanks would be filled in with lies.”

Fair Trial Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Book:An Evil Trade

Source: An Evil Trade

“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.”

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Author:Laurence Stallings

“Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.”

“Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.”

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Author:Vance Havner

“In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978

“In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'”

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Book:9-11: Was There an Alternative?

Source: 9-11: Was There an Alternative?

“It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.”

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Author:Bill James

“[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“A fair trial would have been no trial at all.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'”

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Author:William Safire

“There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.”

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Author:Maria Cantwell

“The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.”

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Author:Maria Cantwell

“How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.”

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Author:Daniel O'Connell

“You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.”

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Author:Florence Ellinwood Allen

“...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.”

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Author:John Hunt Morgan

“He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty man could be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these declarations he repeated to me the oftener and the more pointedly.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.”

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Author:Wesley Snipes

“When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.”

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Author:J. William Fulbright

“Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.”

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Author:John Garamendi

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