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“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”

“One of the main uses of most criminal justice systems is to minimize the number of people who are not white, by imprisoning innocent males who are neither white nor gay.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.”

“defense lawyers are key in promoting the idea that many convicted of child abuse are innocent”

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Author:Bethany L. Brand

“Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.”

Not Guilty Innocent Until Proven Guilty Defendants

Book:Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial

Source: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial

“If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”

Vengeance Assumptions Accusations Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Book:The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“There is a presumption in favor of every existing institution. Many of these (we will suppose the majority) may be susceptible of alteration for the better; but still the "Burden of proof" lies with him who proposes an alteration; simply, on the ground that since a change is not a good in itself, he who demands a change should show cause for it. No one is called on . . . to defend an existing institution, till some argument is adduced against it; and that argument ought in fairness to prove, not merely an actual inconvenience, but the possibility of a change for the better.”

Debate Rhetoric Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Author:David Potter

“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