“A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.” RealJusticeCasesEventsEvidenceReal Life Author:Christopher Darden
“Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.” VoiceJusticeOfficeEvidenceActiveTapeInvolvementRemovalDemonstratingObstructionImpeachment Author:Richard Ben-Veniste
“However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.” MayGovernmentLawCertainInterestJusticeNumbersCasesAmountTaxesEvidenceIncomeAgencyPlusAccurateIntroducingPenaltiesDisputesTaxpayersIrsAlways Wrong Author:James Bovard
“Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.” PeopleIfsWayMomentsLawHumanityFoundJusticeCommonWatchesCasesGoneJudgingJudgmentEvidenceCourtBoxesCriticalRationalOne WayAgain And AgainAccusedJuryBargainsCommon LawJurorsCritical Moments Author:E. P. Thompson
“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.” NeedsHumansStillsEarthSpiritJusticeFreedomHuman BeingsLibertyOur LivesMaterialsComfortDemandEvidenceSakeWorthyCollectivesBeing HumanBondageIndivisibleExpediency Author:Han Suyin
“Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.” KindRealityEarthPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyCommonGenerationsPolicyExamplePoliticianEthicsEvidenceStrategyIdeologyZonePolitical PartiesCivilityCommon GroundPartisanshipScorched Earth Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.” MindJusticeSourceOrdinaryEvidenceLogicPracticalsConsiderationConvenienceFramedAdministrativeExpediency Book:Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo Source: Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.” IfsThinkingMenEndsMightHumanityCan DoJusticeDangerousOughtCostSafeDevilEvidenceAbsolutesSakeGuidesTrialsImpulseAgreementFinding YourselfDangerous ThingsTreacherous Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.” PeopleTogetherDifferencesJusticeEvidenceLogicAlways Together Author:Rafe Esquith
“Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.” WayProblemLawCoursesJusticeHighestEvidenceCourtInternationalTerrorismObligationContemptRight WayTreatiesInternational LawVerdictTribunalsNicaragua Author:Noam Chomsky
“Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.” FirstsLongLightJusticeCrimeEvidencePrisonCommittedSentencesAssaultDnaMurdererWisconsinChroniclesMiscarriageDna Evidence Author:Errol Morris