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Convict Quotes

Guilt, evidence, and due process.

These convict quotes stay close to due process — one raises concerns about NSA data used quietly to convict people, another criticizes prosecutors who overcharge to force plea deals, and a third insists on innocent-until-proven-guilty.

You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean, they're also using it to convict people of crimes, and that's what they're doing - they're...

Quotes by William Binney

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable...

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they're terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively...

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

Quotes by Kool Moe Dee

Convicted Quotes

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Quotes by Jim DeMint

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns....

Quotes by Jeff Sessions

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward...

Quotes by Ellen G. White

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Quotes by Earl Warren

Conviction Quotes

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Quotes by Asif Ali Zardari

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack...

Anton Chekhov

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

Quotes by Amy Klobuchar

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the...

Frequently Asked Questions

What legal themes run through these convict quotes?
Concerns about surveillance data being used to convict people quietly, prosecutors overcharging to force plea deals, and the principle of innocence until proven guilty.
What does the NSA-data quote argue?
It raises concern that data collected by the NSA is used by the FBI to help convict people of crimes without much public discussion of that use.
Is there a quote about plea bargaining?
Yes, one criticizes prosecutors for overcharging defendants, knowing that harsh mandatory minimums pressure people into plea deals rather than trials.
What's the point about Roy Moore in one quote?
It uses that case to reaffirm a broader principle: nobody should be treated as guilty without evidence, and that standard should apply to anyone regardless of position.
What other topics pair with convict quotes?
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