If the cops can’t convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.
This is a free country... you can do almost anything you want.
Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.
As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I.
The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna’s oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The.
Such is the lunacy and unfairness of the system. Huver’s witnesses, the ones testifying on behalf of the State, are cloaked with legitimacy, as if they’ve been sanctified by the authorities. Cops, experts, even snitches who’ve been washed and cleansed and spruced up in nice clothes, all take the stand and tell lies in a coordinated effort to have my client executed. But the witnesses who know the truth, and are telling it, are discounted immediately and made to look like fools.
She was a good swimmer but we never used life jackets.” “It wouldn’t matter in that storm.
You just don’t understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it’s harmless. We all look. Come on.
This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.
I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.
He tried to smile at President Morgan, but he wanted to say something like: You are without a doubt the most limited politician I have ever encountered. Only in America could a moron like you make it to the top.
But you worship money, Nate. You’re part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It’s a religion.
Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client.
Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word “no.
Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.
Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, however slight. A confession obtained from an accused who has been threatened cannot be admissible.
Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
In the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus teaches the importance of forgiveness. He knows we’re human and our natural tendency is to seek revenge, to strike back, to condemn those who hurt us, but this is wrong. We’re supposed to forgive, always.
This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same – bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors.