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Felony Quotes

What a felony charge really costs, from inside the courtroom.

These felony quotes come from the courtroom itself: a trial lawyer's near-perfect record in felony jury trials, and a plea to stop branding people with a felony over what's really a personal weakness. It's a hard look at Court outcomes.

Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

Quotes by Victor Mitchell

Animals Quotes

Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony conviction makes finding gainful employment difficult, if not impossible.

Quotes by Stan Van Gundy

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

Quotes by Peter Dinklage

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

Quotes by Pat Brown

It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to...

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws...

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

Because Quotes

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and...

Quotes by Martin Van Buren

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

Quotes by Hill Harper

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Quotes by Carl Bernstein

They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in...

Quotes by Bernard Hopkins

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's this Felony quotes page about?
It gathers quotes about the legal weight of a felony charge — from courtroom win-loss records to reflections on prison reform and criminal branding.
Why do people search for felony quotes?
They're often looking for something quotable on criminal justice, sentencing, or a courtroom outcome — the topic overlaps closely with Court quotes.
Two entries here say almost the same thing about felony jury trials — what's that about?
Both note the same striking career record — winning 105 of 106 felony jury trials while losing some misdemeanor cases — a detail specific enough that it appears twice among the sample quotes, underscoring how rare that kind of trial record is.
Does this collection touch on criminal justice reform?
Yes — one quote argues against branding people with a felony over what the speaker calls a personal weakness, and against filling prisons for it.
Are all these quotes from legal professionals?
Not entirely — the topic also includes a stated policy opinion on firearm-transfer regulations, showing felony comes up in political debate as much as it does in the courtroom.

Between winning verdicts and rethinking how the system punishes people, these lines ask what a felony conviction should actually mean, Because the stakes rarely fit a single label.